The launch of Jentayu (the name of a mythical bird in Malay epic tradition) is good news for the Malaysian left. A bilingual Malay- and
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From New Lines Magazine In late February 2022, a fistfight broke out in Kibbutz Lotan, a small eco-community in southern Israel. Dima, an immigrant from
There is a version of Soviet history that circulates in certain corners of the left, passed around like a corrective to Reagan-era Cold War propaganda:
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
From Himal Southasian The Bharatiya Janata Party’s unprecedented electoral victory in West Bengal exposes the deep Bengali roots of Hindu nationalism and shatters the myth
The near-exclusive focus of international opinion and the media on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict conceals a far broader and more systemic reality: a forest of internal
In the following analysis, Somayeh Rostampour shows how the repression that the Iranian government has carried out to crush protests, the monarchist attempt to co-opt
In the following interview, Palestine solidarity activists from the Chinese diaspora speak with Iranian activists in exile about the uprising that took place in Iran
Turkish nationalism has become more like its Russian counterpart Amongst the illiberal “bad guys” who have been on the up-and-up over the past decade, Putin
From New Lines Magazine Long forced to suppress its culture and history, the minority group is embracing its traumatic past while maintaining its allegiance to
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
How Thailand and China solved their nation-building dilemma Henry Rory O’Connor: Who is the Chinese population of Thailand? What does the rest of the country’s
‘Northern frontier culture’ (北疆文化, umrat khiliin soyol) has recently become a trendy term in propaganda texts and academic publications in and about Inner Mongolia. Numerous
Paul Martial – When discussing Africa, the notion of ethnicity is frequently mentioned, both in general media and among social science researchers. How would you
How is ethnic domination produced, legitimised, and sustained under conditions of liberal democracy? This article engages with this problem and provides a re-conceptualisation that draws
For decades, historians have debated the question of whether concepts equivalent to race and racism existed in premodern Chinese ethnic discourse. Unfortunately, this discussion has