20 years on, the causes of 9-11 remain unresolved
Twenty years after 9/11, a generation of Australians has grown up during the subsequent war on terror which forever changed international relations. Dr Govand … Read more
Dr. Govand Khalid Azeez
ABC: Implications of the September 11 attacks – 20 years on
A Philosophico-Anthropological Account of the Roots of 9/11 At the 20th anniversary of 9/11, Big Ideas looks at how the attacks have reverberated over … Read more
This Week in History: Che Guevara Shot
Ernesto Guevara was born in Argentina in 1928 and through the course of his life and actions, became the revolutionary icon Che Guevara. By … Read more
Decoding Islamophobia in contemporary society: the case of Houellebecq
Abstract What exactly is Islamophobia? How can we best define this cultural force and ideological technique? Is it an anachronistic cultural construct emerging out … Read more
Autonomy in the Caribbean Coast: neoliberalism, landless peasants, and the resurgence of ethnic conflict
Abstract A new wave of socio-political and economic challenges have undermined the exercise of self-determination and autonomy in the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua. The … Read more
Beyond recognition: autonomy, the state, and the Mapuche Coordinadora Arauco Malleco
Abstract The initial resurgence of indigenous mobilization in Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s was certainly driven by the framework of the ‘politics … Read more
Beyond Edward Said: An Outlook on Postcolonialism and Middle Eastern Studies
Abstract At the forefront of critically examining the effects of colonization on the Middle East is Edward Said’s magnum opus, Orientalism (1978). In the … Read more
Regaining pre-colonial sovereignty: the case of Miskitu resistance
Abstract This article explores the politics, discursive utterances and postures of an under-studied indigenous autonomist movement whose anti-colonial and anti-Western project demands to be … Read more
The Thingified Subject’s Resistance in the Middle East
Abstract Colonization, I postulate, has a far more profound effect on the colonized than conceptualized in Aimé Césaire’s postcolonial equation, colonization = thingification. Rather, … Read more
Epistemological blindness or violence: liberal multiculturalism and the Indigenous quest for autonomy
Abstract From 1960s onwards, liberal multiculturalism – from Iris M. Young’s notion of a ‘differentiated citizenship’ or what Rodolfo Stavenhagen terms ‘internal self-determination’ to … Read more