00:00:00 Webinar series intro 00:01:42 Speaker intro 00:03:36 Democratic backsliding and/in India 00:24:16 Q&A I (political democracy, substantive democracy) 00:30:09 Populist religious nationalism, ethnic democracy and fascist tendencies 01:05:14 Q&A II (Hindu identity, Hindutva, caste, fascism, populism) 01:37:00 Caste, class, the Left and democracy in India
Category: Webinars
00:00:00 Introduction of the speakers 00:02:38 Introduction to today’s webinar 00:04:20 Germany, racism, colonialism 00:09:27 Extermination and extraction 00:12:04 German-Russian inter-imperiality 00:16:20 The “German-ness Contract”
00:00:00 Webinar series intro 00:04:35 Oksana Dutchak introduces herself and her research 00:07:22 Core concepts of feminist social reproduction theory 00:29:39 Q&A: hierarchies of care
00:00:00 Webinar series intro 00:04:46 Speaker introduction 00:06:55 Bill’s political biography 00:11:30 African Americans and the US labour movement 00:15:53 Race and class in the
00:00:00 Intro to the series 00:02:30 Intro to the webinar 00:03:31 Anna Hájková‘s research and public interventions 00:10:23 Blind spots 00:14:10 Epistemic frames 00:18:13 The
00:00:00 Introduction 00:03:58 Recap of the main themes of Jacob’s article Violence and the Left 00:23:15 Q&A intro 00:24:03 How did settler colonialism become an
00:00:00 Introduction by Daniel 00:07:40 Byron on settler colonialism in the Pacific, Polynesian resistance and the building of the nation state in New Zealand 00:23:10
Webinars and Interviews
No webinars in the second half of 2026, instead we’re doing a series of discussions on some of the themes addressed in Left Renewal in an Age of Waiting.
Past:
7 June 2026 – Webinar with Nissim Mannathukkaren on Autocratisation in India
29 March 2026 – Webinar with Oksana Dutchak on War, Austerity and Care
15 March 2026 – Webinar with Bill Fletcher Jr. on Global Labour Movement Solidarity
4 Jan 2026 – Webinar with Anna Hájková on Eastern Europe and the Blind Spots of the Global Left
16 Nov 2025 – Webinar with Jacob Abolafia on Emancipation and Decolonisation
21 Sept 2025 – Webinar with Brian Hioe on Campism and the Left in Taiwan
11 May 2025 – Webinar with Philippe Corcuff and Ben Gidley on Confusionism
4 May 2025 – Webinaire avec Pierre Gaussens sur la “critique de la raison décoloniale”
17 April 2025 – Entretien avec Michel Cahen sur le concept de colonialité
26 Jan 2025 – Interview with Ben Wexler on the Idea of the Eternal Settler
12 Jan 2025 – Webinar with Joe Grim Feinberg on Rethinking Colonialism and Imperialism
19 Nov 2024 – Interview with Lachlan McNamee on Settler Colonialism
14 July 2024 – Webinar with Lachlan McNamee and Arnon Degani on Settler Colonialism
Anna Hájková (en), Anna Zielinska (en), Arnon Degani (en), Ben Gidley (en), Benjamin Wexler (en), Bill Fletcher Jr. (en), Brian Hioe (en), Byron Clark (en), Chenchen Zhang (en), Daphne Lawless (en), Haoues Seniguer (en), Jacob Abolafia (en), Joseph Grim Feinberg (en), Lachlan McNamee (en), Michal Frenkel (en), Michel Cahen (en), Nissim Mannathukkaren (en), Oksana Dutchak (en), Philippe Corcuff (en), Tereza Hendl (en), Yudit Namer (en)
00:01:00 Introduction00:11:00 Taiwan’s history and society00:27:58 Q&A00:48:30 International left views on Taiwan and China00:54:20 Q&A01:07:50 The left in Taiwan01:15:45 Q&A01:48:40 Conclusion01:55:13 End
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