Should critical scholars live up to their writing? The case of the Palestinian Call for Boycotts
By Marcelo Svirsky When it comes to scholars working with the tools of critical theory, the question of why many academics prefer to stay…
‘What, then, is the path?’ Grappling with resistance and complicity in the academy
Image courtesy of Right to the City Brisbane With relief, with humiliation, with terror, he understood that he also was an illusion, that someone else…
Addendum with Correction
The 2017 ASCP conference in Hobart was brilliant. I regret that in my blog post on 26 December 2017, I didn’t highlight the fact…
Australian Continental Philosophy
I suspect that just about every Shona child who grew up in the Zimbabwe of the 1980s through to the mid-1990s grew up being…
Guests in the Master’s House
Following the publication of Australian Continental Philosophy, we sought Bryan Mukandi’s permission to re-post his reflections on the 2017 ASCP conference in Hobart. Our…
The Uluru Statement and Manus Island: How the settler colonial state of exception compounds race and the necessity for a Republic of Australia
Our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander tribes were the first sovereign Nations of the Australian continent and its adjacent islands, and possessed it under…
Migratory Austerity: Colonial Law’s Slow Violence
A word on Violence Having been asked to write a commentary on the current events taking place on Manus Island I am struck by…