PhD Placements at the British Library

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Kavita Krishnan | Power and Patriarchy in India: How State-led ‘Women’s Empowerment’ Undermines Women’s Movements | 7 Feb, 5-7PM SOAS

Kavita Krishnan (Secretary of the All India Progressive Women’s Association, India) Power and Patriarchy in India: How State-led ‘Women’s Empowerment’ Undermines Women’s Movements Tuesday, 7 February, 5-7PM Room: Alumni Lecture Theatre (ALT), Room 110, Senate House North Block, SOAS   Does the state confer ’empowerment’ on women? Can it ’empower’ without acknowledging and resisting the

THE PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF ECOLOGICAL CIVILIZATION: A Manifesto for the Future

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Marx and Philosophy Review of Books

New reviews and an updated list of books for review recently published online in the Marx and Philosophy Review of Books Shane Hopkins on three recent books on Fanon Hamayon Rastgar on Moufawad-Paul, Continuity and Rupture Dianne Lalonde on Amílcar Cabral, Resistance and Decolonization Robert Tally on Andrew Cole, The Birth of Theory  Jim Kow on Pradella and Marois (eds), Polarising Development

Cured Quail Volume 1

Cured Quail Volume 1 With What Must a Journal That Will Not Be Read Begin? A fundraising appeal Cured Quail is a new journal of critical theory that takes seriously the aesthetic, social and conceptual problems of literacy. By literacy we don’t mean simply the ability to read and write. Rather, Cured Quail poses the question of illiteracy