I have learned much from this fascinating collection of short essays. Here we find on-the-ground engagements with violence in Gaza,…
postcolonialism
Mughal neopaganism and the romance of history
In the last five decades, South Asian countries have experienced a notable increase in religious violence and discrimination. The most…
In the wake of conscription: Compradors or bricoleurs?
One of the central questions animating this forum underscores the importance of moving beyond “a focus on the application of…
On category-mistakes and androgynous divinities
A reprieve from those Western epistemological formulations of spirituality, this essay unpacks how the Ewe, an ethnic constituency in Ghana,…
Law’s fragile state
Mark Fathi Massoud, Assistant Professor of Politics and Legal Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, examines the trials…
The end of postcolonialism
The London-based publisher Zed Books recently released Hamid Dabashi's The Arab Spring: The End of Postcolonialism (distributed in the U.S. by Macmillan).
Nahda’s return to history
The Tunisian uprisings of December 2010 are often depicted in negative terms, as lacking leadership, ideology, and political organization. Nahda…