Time and Limits of the Political: Anti-Historical Excursions from South Asia

Second Berlin Southern Theory Lecture with Indian Historian Prathama Banerjee on December 10, 2020 / Joint press release of Freie Universität Berlin and the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO)

No 234/2020 from Dec 03, 2020

On December 10, the Indian historian Professor Prathama Banerjee will give a talk on "anti-historical" thinking from a southern theory perspective, with a special focus on South-East Asia. From a starting point of historical critique, researchers in the field of southern theory bring together past and possibilities, creatively addressing time and chronology as a means of understanding the political. Based on this debate, the Global South is creating its own theoretical and linguistic resources with which to shape a decolonial future. ...

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