Mohan J Dutta

Nov 4, 2024 | tandfonline.com | Mohan J Dutta

Accelerating inequalities, pandemics, climate colonialism, racism, and digital hate perpetuated by the extractive forces of digital capital; expulsions of peoples into hyperprecarious global circuits of labor exploitation; and depleting democracies threatened by the global rise of the far-right constitute the contours of health at the margins across the globe, existing in continuity with the violence of the colonial–capitalist project (Dutta, Citation2023a, Citation2023b, Citation2024a;...

Jun 7, 2024 | massey.ac.nz | Mohan J Dutta

The outcome of India’s 2024 General Election marks a significant moment in the nation's democratic journey - the beginning of the process of democratic renewal since Hindutva’s take-over of institutional structures and democratic processes that started unfolding in the 2014 General Election.

Jan 7, 2024 | truthout.org | Mohan J Dutta

Part of the SeriesChallenging the Corporate UniversityThe recent resignation of Harvard’s first African American president, Claudine Gay, which was brought on by an orchestrated campaign mobilized by the far right, made visible the threat of organized fascism on university campuses. Claiming victory, the far right propagandist Christopher Rufo posted on social media: “SCAPLED: Harvard President Claudine Gay Resigns” (and quickly clarified that he meant to write “SCALPED”).

Oct 29, 2023 | truthout.org | Eleanor Bader |Mohan J Dutta |Ngakiya Camara |Zane McNeill

Kenneth Davis, an associate professor at Edward Waters University (EWU) — a private Christian and historically Black college in Jacksonville, Florida — says he was shocked and dismayed when he received a letter informing him that the college’s administration was withdrawing recognition of the labor union that had represented the school’s faculty for more than three decades.

Aug 13, 2023 | truthout.org | Anthony Ballas |Mohan J Dutta |Jeff Melnick

Part of the SeriesChallenging the Corporate UniversityIn a single academic year, political and judicial leaders have escalated their anti-democratic, anti-educational movement aimed at dismantling higher education’s focus on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), initiating a furiously paced rejection of racial, sexual and ethnic diversity — as well as basic humanity.