Tag: Global South

Two new books critique poverty capital, but they don’t ask what borrowers need. 

The vast hinterlands of the Global South’s cities are generating new solidarities and ideas of what counts as a life worth living.

As Big Tech's data and profit extraction extends the world over, activists in the Global South are pointing the way to a more just digital future.

Noam Chomsky on lies, crimes, and savage capitalism.

The commodity’s bloody history is instructive of how global capitalism can and can’t be fixed.

Neel Mukherjee is part of a new generation of Indian writers dissecting postcolonialism’s failed promise of a classless society.

Trump’s Muslim ban was not just an aberration. U.S. citizenship has long been predicated on whiteness as it was understood in 1790.

The moral right of states to apprehend and deport irregular migrants erodes with the passage of time.

Feminism and trans* activism have been at odds for decades. They don't need to be.

On the enduring legacy of a dictatorial ruler.

Nalo Hopkinson on the politics of dystopia, writing from the Global South, and the enduring importance of black mermaids.

An open letter from a Filipino writer to his fellow citizens.

Vijay Prashad on writing, struggle, and hope in difficult times.

Global capitalism is no longer simply characterized by uneven development, it is characterized by uneven disaster.

Sujatha Gidla, born an untouchable in India, tells the story of her family.

On Indian literature in English after Arundhati Roy.

A new series explores how reading works by global women of color is generative.

In the name of fighting radical Islam, Indian troops have gone to war with civilians.