Kanishka Jayasuriya
fafner100.bsky.social
Kanishka Jayasuriya
@fafner100.bsky.social
Professor of Politics and International Studies at Murdoch University. Posts are my personal views.
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This is partly to do with the reclamation of the status of 'native', once doled out to colonized peoples all the better to govern them, but now repatriated back home under an altered and positive sign. This too is a kind of imperial boomerang.
January 28, 2025 at 3:27 AM
A focus on the role of women in left-wing parties/movements would be good particulary in the global south but also broader transnational socialist and communist forums. For a flavour see
academic.oup.com/past/article...
With a Australian focus see here
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
Women, Hospitality and The Intimate Politics of International Socialism, 1955–1965*
Abstract. In the 1950s, a commitment to democratic socialism connected networks of intellectuals, activists and political operators in both Europe and Asia
academic.oup.com
January 9, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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My current thinking is that the portion of the field that I inhabit has been so shaped by the 30+ years of post-Cold War liberal democratic politics that we have lost the vocabulary to describe its alternatives
December 15, 2024 at 11:19 PM