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
Tag: Nissim Mannathukkaren (en)
Nissim Mannathukkaren is an associate professor in Dalhousie University’s Department of International Development Studies in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He is the author of ‘Communism,
The progressive foreign response has often privileged geopolitics and anti-American imperialism at the cost of the struggle for democracy in Iran. The 13th century Persian
Webinars and Interviews
Upcoming:
9 August 2026, 09:00 UTC – Webinar and Q&A with Melinda Cooper. Details to follow.
Write to us at [email protected] if you would like to participate in one or more of these and we will send you the Zoom link(s).
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)
The 2024 Lok Sabha Elections produced the façade of sameness as 2019 was almost re-enacted in Kerala. Yet, the present elections should ring the alarm