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Monika Mokre interviews Gayatri C. Spivak, assisted by Surya Parekh, moderated by Angelina Giannopoulou. In the second half of the webinar questions from the audience were taken up.
Many thanks to Katta Spiel and Andreas Filipovic for the transcription and formatting of the English subtitles!
Many thanks to en.baricada.org for the Bulgarian and Romanian subtitles!
Left-wing scholars, intellectuals, politicians, activists speak with transform! europe on the social, political and economic implications of the Covid-19 crisis.
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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Indian scholar, literary theorist, and feminist critic. She is a University Professor at Columbia University and a founding member of the establishment's Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. Activist in rural education and feminist and ecological social movements since 1986. Her critical writings included In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics (1987), The Post-Colonial Critic (1990), Thinking Academic Freedom in Gendered Post-Coloniality (1992), Outside in the Teaching Machine (1993), A Critique of Postcolonial Reason (1999), Death of a Discipline (2003), Other Asias (2005), and Readings (2014). Spivak was awarded the Padma Bhushan, one of India’s highest honours, in 2013.
Dr. Surya Parekh is an Assistant Professor at the State University of New York. He specializes in English, General Literature.
Monika Mokre, political scientist and an activist in the fields of migration, asylum and imprisonment. She has been a research fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences since 1991. Since 2009 she has been a senior researcher at the Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History. She teaches at various universities, e.g. at the Institute for Cultural Management and Cultural Studies at the University for Music and Performing Arts and at Webster University Vienna. She is the chair woman of eipcp, European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies, as well as a member of several committees and advisory panels in cultural and educational affairs.
Angelina Giannopoulou is a political scientist based in Athens and facilitator of the Working group on Strategic Perspectives of the Radical Left and European Integration.
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As humanity faces the catastrophic COVID-19 pandemic, unprecedented in recent times, the Left internationally must address this crisis with both short and long term action, analysis and planning. We are active day by day, driven by the needs of our communities - this is already reshaping the way we do politics. We are building solidarity networks and launching campaigns to protect and work alongside the people that are hardest hit by the crisis. At the same time, we must think strategically and present alternatives for the future. There can be no going back to the vicious circle of austerity and poverty: we cannot allow the global reimposition of a failed system on the people. The radical left will pose alternatives to reinvent socialist politics for the 21st century: to build a new society that empowers and liberates us all.
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To stay informed on other events hosted and articles published by transform! please subscribe to our newsletter (available in English, French, German, Greek and Spanish): please go to the site of transform! europe: transform-network.net/#subscribe-newsletter
Monika Mokre interviews Gayatri C. Spivak, assisted by Surya Parekh, moderated by Angelina Giannopoulou. In the second half of the webinar questions from the audience were taken up.
Many thanks to Katta Spiel and Andreas Filipovic for the transcription and formatting of the English subtitles!
Many thanks to en.baricada.org for the Bulgarian and Romanian subtitles!
Left-wing scholars, intellectuals, politicians, activists speak with transform! europe on the social, political and economic implications of the Covid-19 crisis.
***
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Indian scholar, literary theorist, and feminist critic. She is a University Professor at Columbia University and a founding member of the establishment's Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. Activist in rural education and feminist and ecological social movements since 1986. Her critical writings included In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics (1987), The Post-Colonial Critic (1990), Thinking Academic Freedom in Gendered Post-Coloniality (1992), Outside in the Teaching Machine (1993), A Critique of Postcolonial Reason (1999), Death of a Discipline (2003), Other Asias (2005), and Readings (2014). Spivak was awarded the Padma Bhushan, one of India’s highest honours, in 2013.
Dr. Surya Parekh is an Assistant Professor at the State University of New York. He specializes in English, General Literature.
Monika Mokre, political scientist and an activist in the fields of migration, asylum and imprisonment. She has been a research fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences since 1991. Since 2009 she has been a senior researcher at the Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History. She teaches at various universities, e.g. at the Institute for Cultural Management and Cultural Studies at the University for Music and Performing Arts and at Webster University Vienna. She is the chair woman of eipcp, European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies, as well as a member of several committees and advisory panels in cultural and educational affairs.
Angelina Giannopoulou is a political scientist based in Athens and facilitator of the Working group on Strategic Perspectives of the Radical Left and European Integration.
***
As humanity faces the catastrophic COVID-19 pandemic, unprecedented in recent times, the Left internationally must address this crisis with both short and long term action, analysis and planning. We are active day by day, driven by the needs of our communities - this is already reshaping the way we do politics. We are building solidarity networks and launching campaigns to protect and work alongside the people that are hardest hit by the crisis. At the same time, we must think strategically and present alternatives for the future. There can be no going back to the vicious circle of austerity and poverty: we cannot allow the global reimposition of a failed system on the people. The radical left will pose alternatives to reinvent socialist politics for the 21st century: to build a new society that empowers and liberates us all.
***
To stay informed on other events hosted and articles published by transform! please subscribe to our newsletter (available in English, French, German, Greek and Spanish): please go to the site of transform! europe: transform-network.net/#subscribe-newsletter
