Volodymyr Ishchenko has carved out a unique niche as one of the western Left’s go-to voices on all things Ukrainian. His list of articles and
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From Jadaliyya Muriam Haleh Davis, Markets of Civilization: Islam and Racial Capitalism in Algeria (Durham: Duke University Press, 2022), 264 pp. Jadaliyya (J): What made you
After February 24 [2022], when Putin’s Russia started a full-scale military invasion of Ukraine, the world faced more than a challenge to Western geopolitical hegemony. Behind
This question involves two common misunderstandings. First, “communist country” is an oxymoron: communism requires the end of nation-states, so it would be impossible for China
From The London Review of Books The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics, by Mae Ngai. Norton, 440 pp., £21.99, September 2021, 978 0 393 63416 7 In 1852,
At the end of 1965, the apparatchiks of the Communist Party of Ukraine received an outrageous samizdat – in Ukrainian: samvydav – entitled “Internationalism or
The economic regime that has emerged in Russia has received a wide variety of characterizations and label forms. There are different terms from ‘state capitalism’
Yige Dong is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Global Gender & Sexuality Studies at University at Buffalo, State University of New York. She co-authored ‘What
Abstract What place does the caste system have in modern India with its globally integrating market economy? The most influential anthropological approaches to caste have
From Viewpoint Magazine “Imperialism,” David Harvey announced at a roundtable last year, should be seen as a “sort of metaphor, rather than anything real.” This
The ‘Indigènes de la République’ have helped make visible a racism of the left, one rooted in the pervasive racism consubstantial with French society —
Sergey Nikolsky, a Russian philosopher of culture, says that perhaps the most important idea for Russians “from the fall of Byzantium until today is the
Melinda Cooper is an Australian sociologist and political theorist. Her work deals with the political economy of neoliberalism, biopolitics and the history of capitalism. This