Engku Puteri Raja Hamidah (1774-1844) and Khatijah Sidek (1918-1982) exercised political authority across a Malay world divided by colonialism. Their lives show how such figures
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Popular culture taught generations to admire resistance to colonialism; nationalism turned ‘firstness’ into claims of exclusive ownership For many Europeans, the word “Indigenous” evokes two
“I do not worship the sacred cow of ‘national unity’. I know nothing of value that was achieved by unity.” – Yeshayahu Leibowitz For JD
In this conversation, Ralf Ruckus talks to Nandita Sharma, author of Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants (2020), about the
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
Dibyesh Anand and Nitasha Kaul (eds), Contemporary Colonialities: Kurds and Kashmiris (London: University of Westminster Press, 2025), 133 pp. Mahmood Mamdani has argued that the