Katrine Bregengaard in discussion with Etienne Balibar- Part 2 of 3 (Illustration of Etienne Balibar by Zahid Mayo)
(The interview is a revised version of a conversation that took place in November 2014 at Professor Balibar’s office at Columbia University’s French Department.)
MARXISM
KATRINE BREGENGAARD: Let’s turn to the history of your work in relation…
Pakistani state violence (in the form of aerial bombardments, raids, and collective abductions) against the Baloch has led to hundreds of thousands of Baloch migrating inside and outside Balochistan. International organisations (such as Amnesty International, Red Cross, Global Rights, Refugees International) which globally support displaced people and refugees either ignore the Baloch or are not…
Katrine Bregengaard in discussion with Etienne Balibar- Part 3 of 3 (Illustration of Etienne Balibar by Zahid Mayo)
(The interview is a revised version of a conversation that took place in November 2014 at Professor Balibar’s office at Columbia University’s French Department.)
HUMAN RIGHTS
KATRINE BREGENGAARD: I want to turn to the question of human…
Well known, the narrow strictness of the Saudi order. On the one side the flogging of dissent, on the other the bombing of audacity. The penal arsenal of the Saudis mirrors that of the Islamic State – both resort to beheading and beating, to harsh treatment for their citizenry as the price of stability. What…
There surely will be divergent views to what I am about to write because I am writing about the 2nd March which is celebrated as ‘Baloch Culture Day’ and is celebrated quite enthusiastically by many as is apparent from the social media and news reports. So much so that even the American Consul General in…
Since March 27th 1948s forced accession the Baloch have been resisting the Pakistani state’s attempts to exploit their resources, politically disenfranchise them, physically eliminate and intimidate them and last but not the least turn them into a minority with influx of non-Baloch people. Baloch resistance has so far foiled the evil designs though this has taken…
Below is a transcript of a brief interview with Noam Chomsky conducted on 17th November 2015 in Boston, US. Qalandar Memon: How do you think France, EU countries and the US will react to the violence that took place in Paris on 13th November 2015? Likewise, how do you think they should react to that, with the…
Interview conducted 6/29 – 2014
Cæcilie Varslev-Pedersen: How is it to live and work in South Carolina these days?
Todd May: It doesn’t get easier. You see that a lot of the country is moving away politically. We don’t have gay marriage. In fact, they’re passing laws to make it harder to be gay. If gay…
On whether Foucault is a Neoliberal Philosopher – And what it means to ask?
The germ of the central question I will attend to in this essay is owed to an interview published in Jacobin magazine under the title ‘Can We Criticize Foucault’.1 The interviewee was a French sociologist who has published an edited volume titled Foucault…