Priyamvada Gopal

Apr 30, 2024 | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Priyamvada Gopal

And just like that…the stereotype changed. Until very recently, gen Z, including students in western countries, were being lambasted as sheltered “snowflakes” lacking in drive and ambition, too invested in safe spaces to engage with uncomfortable ideas or exert themselves in challenging directions. Now the problem seems to be that these same young people are not willing to be pacified by either comforting pap or complacent indifference to injustice.

Nov 22, 2023 | zen-catgirl.medium.com | Priyamvada Gopal

The verdict is in. 'Decolonization', tech boss Elon Musk has pronounced, will be a verboten term on the X app, formerly known as Twitter, along with the old liberationist slogan 'From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will be Free.' Both, he declares, 'necessarily imply genocide' and constitute hate speech, the sort of thing that he fondly wishes us to believe, are not part of that platform.

Nov 1, 2023 | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Avraham Burg |Priyamvada Gopal |Michael Rose |Serhii Plokhy

Gaza War I still dream of peace My country will emerge from this horror—and when it does the peacemakers, not the zealots, will reign, writes a former speaker of the Israeli Knesset

Nov 1, 2023 | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Priyamvada Gopal

Are the humanities always in crisis? A number of books and opinion pieces proclaiming an emergency and pronouncing the death of this or that subject would suggest so. Yet, as the Royal Historical Society recently noted of teaching and research in history at British universities, for all the controversies that erupt within them, the humanities are not in crisis. The same is true for other humanities subjects: classics, languages, literature, philosophy, cultural and film studies.

Aug 24, 2023 | versobooks.com | Walter Rodney |Angela Davis |Priyamvada Gopal |Ruth Gilmore

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa is an ambitious masterwork of political economy, detailing the impact of slavery and colonialism on the history of international capitalism. In this classic book, R... Making the Revolution Global shows how black radicals transformed socialist politics in Britain in the years before decolonisation. African and Caribbean activist-intellectuals, such as Amy Ashwood...