I posted a video on my YouTube channel with a reflection on having left two careers. Most people would consider leaving a career as a sort of failure, but what I highlight in the video is that a lot [...]
Provided below is a transcript of my Youtube video on the topics of Authenticity and Essentialism. Video: Transcript Hello, welcome to Postcolonial Space I'm here again today trying to explain two more concepts relevant to post-colonial studies and those [...]
The Power and Price of Dissent Dissent is a sentiment or philosophy of non-agreement or opposition to a prevailing idea or an entity. The term's antonyms include agreement, consensus and consent, when one party agrees to a proposition made by [...]
Description from Amazon Relying on a thorough understanding of the role of ideology, discourse, and framing, this volume discusses ISIS as an Islamist ideological organization, and examines its philosophical scaffolding within the material conditions produced by neoliberal capital. As Raja [...]
This is a brief lecture explaining Paulo Freire's discussion of the Banking Concept of Education. As one of the world's foremost theorist of education, Freire in his book, "Pedagogy of the Oppressed," lays the foundations of what eventually becomes the [...]
Mostly derived from Linda Hutcheon's book A Poetics of Postmodernism, this lecture explains some of the important aspects of postmodernism and postmodern literature. Audio Lecture:
Introduction What is being liberal? If you just do a cursory survey of how liberals or liberalism is seen by conservatives in the United States and in Pakistan, a few things stand out in these misrepresentations of liberals and [...]
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This brief video, prompted by my interactions with Pakistani scholars, offers a few practical insights about the process of contacting US professors to become your Fulbright research mentors. https://youtu.be/ORzFUUrYJ6Q
This is my brief introduction to some of the main ideas discussed by Zygmunt Bauman in his book Globalization: The Human Consequences.