Iran has faced the most brutal crackdown in recent history, initially with gasoline subsidies cut and increased by up to 300%, amid a crippling global economy and high inflation, culminating in widespread demonstrations and riots and subsequently by a crackdown with between 300 and 1,500 people killed and more than 8,000 arrests. The protests that … Lire plus
During the period of the presidential elections in Brazil in the fall of 2018, Miriam Grossi, Carmen Rial, and Paola Bacchetta were at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, and together with other researchers created a network of solidarity against the extreme right in Brazil, but also in the United States, France, etc. This election, … Lire plus
“One of the most useful approaches to thinking about power globally is the notion of ‘scattered hegemonies’, which shows the existence of many configurations of hot and cold power, scattered across the world, at different scales and in different registers – financial, military, ethnic, media, technical. I propose to add to it the notion of … Lire plus
Critique of the State II: The critique of the nation-state in regard to feminist and gender critique February 2, 2018 13:00-16:00 | Room G-2 Paris 8 University 2, Rue de la Liberté – 93526 Saint-Denis Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun (Paris 7 / Medfil Humanities Institute): “Masculinity as a political category of domination” In a now classic … Lire plus
Critique of the state: state of the critique in the near and middle-east January 24, 2018 14:00-17:00 | Room C103 Paris 8 University 2, Rue de la Liberté – 93526 Saint-Denis Naji El Khatib (Medfil Humanities Institute): “The State in the near and middle-east: politics and epistemology at stake” The intervention will deal with … Lire plus
About 40 years ago, when Iranians revolted and brought down the Shah, the prevailing perception of time was different. At that time, Iranian revolutionaries saw themselves as the first car on the train of world history. The revolution in Iran took place in 1979, when the age of revolutions (the age of extremes, according to … Lire plus
Following subaltern, post and decolonial studies, the notion of decentering in the approach to the construction, organization, translation, transmission and reception of knowledge is renewed in order to both put to question hegemonic knowledge, but also to leave room for other logics and other knowledge, for new politics of the common. It is particularly as … Lire plus