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Tag: Global South

Kevin P. Donovan

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

AbdouMaliq Simone

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

Toussaint Nothias

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.

David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky on lies, crimes, and savage capitalism.

Max Haiven
With the invasion causing a global shortage of sunflower oil, palm oil is back on the rise. But the commodity’s bloody history is instructive of how global capitalism can and can’t be fixed.
Manoj Dias-Abey
A new geoeconomic order is creating opportunities for organizing along supply chains.
Marcelo K. Silva, Gianpaolo Baiocchi
Since taking office in January, President Jair Bolsonaro has not only become less popular. He has also done perhaps irreparable damage to fundamental democratic institutions.
Gaiutra Bahadur

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

Maytha Alhassen
Trump’s Muslim ban was not just an abberation: U.S. citizenship has long been predicated on whiteness as it was understood in 1790.
Joseph H. Carens

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

Jack Halberstam

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

Naseemah Mohamed

On the enduring legacy of a dictatorial ruler.

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

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

Mark Nowak, Vijay Prashad

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

Ashley Dawson

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

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

On Indian literature in English after Arundhati Roy.

Rafia Zakaria

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

Tariq Mir

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

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