Towers of Ivory and Steel: a Letter from the Editor
One of our February Verso Book Club titles.
One of our February Verso Book Club titles.
An excerpt from Tom Nairn’s Faces of Nationalism reviewing two books by Edward Said, The Politics of Dispossession and Representations of the Intellectual, with reflections on Ernest Gellner’s attack on Orientalism. The essay is framed by the fact of the non-disappearance of the Palestinian people, and the role of ‘nationalism’ in this. It was first published in the London Review of Books on 8 September 1994.
Florida university administrations are using the state government's systematic attack on academic freedom to target faculty and students who speak out in solidarity with Palestine. In this testimony, a Florida university professor describes the atmosphere it's creating on campuses and how students, faculty, and staff are working to resist state repression.
The liberation of former Portuguese colonies in Africa placed Henry Kissinger in a bind, and, in the words of Gerald Horne, ‘pushed the ordinarily duplicitous Kissinger into stances that were stunning, even by his unprincipled standard.’
Lynne Segal & Loree Erickson join Eleanor Penny to talk care, disability rights activism, and radical dependency.
Prize-winners, critically-acclaimed, and endorsed by some of the best: here are some books you may have missed this year, but should definitely be on your radar!
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