The Pashtun of Waziristan, Pakistan has today become an avatar for violence, terrorism, rebellion, guerrilla warfare and other things deviant and vile. There is however a long heritage of depicting these people of the tribal regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan as genetically prone to violence and culturally prone to resistance to ‘civilised’ politics. This prejudice […]
Monthly Archives: July 2014
Diaspora
On the Side of the Road – OFFICIAL TRAILER from Naretiv Productions on Vimeo. True that the people were forcibly evicted, and it is true that official histories have been re-written to write them out of memory and documentation. But where did they go? And why have we ‘disappeared’ their histories, voices and experiences? The […]
Can non-Europeans think, and if so, can the non-European be allowed to speak?
Hamid Dabashi makes an argument that should have been made much earlier. So indeed, why are all the incredible voices emerging from South Asia, China, Africa and elsewhere always and consistently missing from any discussion about philosophy and society? Can non-Europeans think? – Opinion – Al Jazeera English. As Dabashi argues: Why is European philosophy “philosophy”, […]