Without being a hatchet job, Michael Jerryson’s latest book makes it clear that, like all religious traditions, Buddhism wears many faces.
What is there about Buddhism that leads so naturally to violence? This is a question that I posed to a group of startled policy professionals in Washington (...)
In the wake of Donald Trump’s election, Muslims don’t need allies. We need comrades.
For the past decade and a half, my family has reacted to every terrorist attack with a special kind of anxiety.
Setting aside any concern about falling victim to an explosion, we cross our fingers and speculate (...)
A few days ago I was surprised to hear a renowned journalist sit and boast about his Baluch lineage. The boasting stuck out because then it was accompanied with claims of good knowledge of the unfortunate province. The comfort with which he spoke about the archaic nature of the tribal culture, (...)
I was utterly delighted when Madonna labelled Obama a ‘black Muslim’ ; she paid him back, quite involuntarily, for his Cairo speech in which he dared call ‘Muslims’ all the inhabitants of the Middle East, i.e. all the free thinkers, agnostics, atheists, Buddhists, Christians, Jews, etc… who are (...)
The OWS movement took place after several years of absence of cohesive nationwide movements, and amidst an extreme fragmentation of struggles. The economic crisis and the evident iniquity of the austerity policies implemented by the government created the conditions for a new social explosion. (...)
My Story, Part 1
“You should know more about Islam.” I was at an anti-war event organized by my friend D., and was being admonished by a smug, white, almost-retired Marxist professor, the kind that’s all too common in the Rogers Park neighborhood, an area known for its vaunted progressive (...)
Has the liberating charge of struggles for recognition dissolved into pure identity politics? Do these have to sidestep inequalities of wealth and power? Not, Nancy Fraser contends, if recognition is understood as a question of social status rather than existential address.
In the seventies (...)
Book Review: A New Politics of Identity: Political Principles for an Interdependent World by Bhikhu Parekh, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, pp. ix+317, price: 19.99 pounds
The most mind-boggling issue of the 21st century has been identity politics linked with caste, ethnicity, race, (...)
Since the rise of Pim Fortuyn in 2002, Islamophobia has played a central role in Dutch politics. Geert Wilders and his Freedom Party have now emerged as a threat to all progressive forces. There is no point in trying to change the subject and hoping the danger will pass; Islamophobia has to be (...)
By Ian Angus. From the first day it appeared online, Climate and Capitalism’s masthead has carried the slogan “Ecosocialism or Barbarism: there is no third way.” We’ve been quite clear that ecosocialism is not a new theory or brand of socialism — it is socialism with Marx’s important insights on (...)
MANILA, Philippines—This fascinating phrase comes from the book of Frantz Fanon, “Black Skin White Masks.” Fanon, the black psychiatrist from Martinique and author of the classic “The Wretched of the Earth,” diagnoses the neurosis of wanting-to-be-white as a product of the internalization of (...)
In some ways the controversy about whether Ram actually existed or is a character imagined in a work of fiction takes us back to debates on history in the 19th and a major part of the 20th century. Then the positivist school saw history as an exact science, or at least as having (...)
Identity and Violence- The Illusion of Destiny by Amartya Kumar Sen, Penguin Books, New Delhi, pp. XX + 215.
Review by Dr. Vibhuti Patel
This is an extremely important contribution by the Nobel laureate, Prof. A.K. Sen addressed to global civil society with a strong plea for reason and (...)
Identity and Violence: The Illusion of DestinyAmartya Sen, Allen Lane, 2006, 215 pg. At a time when the US-led so-called ‘War on Terror’ is terrorizing thousands of innocent people around the world just because they happen to be or look like Arabs or Muslims comes a book by well known Indian (...)
[Since the publication of Tanaka Sakai’s February report on the US road to war with Iran, vigorous international debate has been touched off by allegations of a critically important Israel lobby in US politics and the making of US policy in the Middle East. Tanaka offers an independent critical (...)
This essay is adapted from the new book Identity and Violence, published by Norton.
That some barbed cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed could generate turmoil in so many countries tells us some rather important things about the contemporary world. Among other issues, it points up the (...)
Nobel laureate Amartya Sen speaks to Anasuya Basu about his latest book, Identity and Violence, and his future projects.
Planning for the future
With The Argumentative Indian and Identity and Violence, Amartya Sen seems to have ventured into a different genre of writing. Was it a (...)
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The demand for multiculturalism is strong in the contemporary world. It is much invoked in the making of social, cultural, and political policies, particularly in Western Europe and America. This is not at all surprising, since increased global contacts and interactions, and in (...)
Adopt “a correct view of history,” China and South Korea demand of Japan. Fair enough. We can all agree on the merits of a “correct view” of anything. The difficulty is to define "correct.’’
As the intensifying acrimony unfolds over who did what to whom and how horribly, you’d almost think (...)
Holiday Greetings to Everyone
We wanted to send some sort of holiday greeting to all of you, but it is so difficult in today’s world to know exactly what to say without offending someone. So we met with my attorney yesterday, and on his advice we wish to say the (...)
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