An interview with Homi Bhabha
For journals, Europe as a concept is worthwhile only if conceived of as a threshold to be surpassed, Homi Bhabha argues in interview with Emrah Efe Çacmak. Their work is per se internationalist and has to link communities of intellectuals and activists around the world. [ more ]
"Index on Censorship" investigates what Bush-Cheney did to civil liberties; "Esprit" welcomes America's first Chicagoan president; "Arena" asks whether there will be a Left after capitalism; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Oslo) writes Bush's epitaph; "Samtiden" scrutinizes racism in Norway; "Dilema veche" calls for a debate on anti-Semitism in Romania; "Osteuropa" weighs up causes and effects of the Georgian war; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Berlin) reports on parallel realities in Israel; and "Magyar Lettre Internationale" prefers literary canons in the plural.
is member of the British House of Lords, professor of sociology, and former director of the London School of Economics.
A fissure has opened up between citizens and power, information gaps that invite conspiracy theories and patent recipes. The parliamentary process is empirically the best antidote to populism; its gradual erosion presents one of the greatest challenges to contemporary liberal politics. [more]
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