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HistoryApril 10, 2023
Letting Go of the Border
In The Edge of the Plain, James Crawford explores the fragility of borders in a warming planet, and asks how we might challenge the violence they have come to represent.
Francis Wade
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War and PeaceSeptember 27, 2021
The Quiet Power of Everyday Resistance
Scholar Roger Mac Ginty’s Everyday Peace explores how acts of individual solidarity or noncompliance are vital in forging conciliation amid war and violence.
Francis Wade
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EducationJuly 6, 2021
Gayatri Spivak: ‘The Subaltern Speaks Through Dying’
A conversation on the educational empowerment of rural poor in India, and the evolution of Spivak’s thinking about state and citizen.
Francis Wade
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Racism and DiscriminationOctober 28, 2020
Paul Gilroy: ‘Whiteness Just Ain’t Worth What it Used to Be’
A conversation about racial tensions on both sides of the Atlantic, nationalism, and why inequality might be the key to understanding our current crisis.
Francis Wade
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PhilosophyMay 13, 2020
Judith Butler on the Violence of Neglect Amid a Health Crisis
A conversation with the theorist about her new book, The Force of Nonviolence, and the need for global solidarity in the pandemic world
Francis Wade
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Genocide and Ethnic CleansingSeptember 15, 2017
Buddhists in Myanmar Are Unifying Behind a Deadly Nationalism
And Aung San Suu Kyi is refusing to condemn the resulting bloodshed.
Francis Wade