Recapturing Marx on Gender, Race and Colonialism: Beyond Post-Modernism and Orthodox Marxism

Kevin Andersdon

RECAPTURING MARX ON GENDER, RACE AND COLONIALISM: BEYOND POST-MODERNISM AND ORTHODOX MARXISM

London Public Meeting

7.30 pm, Thursday, 5 November 2015
Cock Tavern, 23 Phoenix Road, Euston, London, NW1 1HB
(5 minute walk from Euston or Kings Cross Undergrounds)

 

Speakers:

– Heather Brown, author of Marx on Gender and the Family: A Critical Study
– Kevin Anderson, author of Marx at the Margins: On Nationalism, Ethnicity and Non-Western Societies
– Gilbert Achcar, author of Marxism, Orientalism, Cosmopolitanism
Chairperson:
– Peter Hudis, author of Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades

 

Sponsored by the International Marxist-Humanist Organization
Further information: http://www.internationalmarxisthumanist.org/

Karl Marx

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Marx’s Grave

Lineages of Revolt:

Revolt

LINEAGES OF REVOLT: ISSUES OF CONTEMPORARY CAPITALISM IN THE MIDDLE EAST

LONDON MIDDLE EAST INSTITUTE

SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON BOOK LAUNCH 

Dear all,

You are invited to a panel discussion with Adam Hanieh, SOAS, Gilbert Achcar, SOAS, Jamie Allinson, University of Westminster and Brenna Bhandar, SOAS to mark the publication of Adam Hanieh’s Lineages of Revolt: Issues of Contemporary Capitalism in the Middle East (Haymarket Books, 2013) at 6.00pm here at SOAS on Wednesday 11 December 2013, please see below for details.

Drawing upon extensive empirical research, Lineages of Revolt tracks the major shifts in the region’s political economy over recent decades.  In this illuminating and original work, Adam Hanieh explores the contours of neoliberal policies, dynamics of class and state formation, imperialism and the nature of regional accumulation, the significance of Palestine and the Gulf Arab states, and the ramifications of the global economic crisis.  By mapping the complex and contested nature of capitalism in the Middle East, the book demonstrates that a full understanding of the uprisings needs to go beyond a simple focus on “dictators and democracy.”

All Welcome

This event is free and there is no need to book  For further information contact: The London Middle East Institute at SOAS, University of London, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG; T: 020 7898 4330; F: 020 7898 4329; E: lmei@soas.ac.uk; W:www.soas.ac.uk/lmei/ 

 

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Postcolonial Theory and the Spectre of Capital

Postcolonial

POSTCOLONIAL THEORY AND THE SPECTRE OF CAPITAL

Vivek Chibber, Professor of Sociology at New York University (NYU) and the author of Locked in Place: State-Building and Late Industrialization in India (2003), will present his new book at SOAS on: Thursday 17 October, 7pm, SOAS main building, DLT (G2).

Chair: Gilbert Achcar, Development Studies

From the book’s back cover:

Postcolonial theory has become enormously influential as a framework for understanding the Global South. It is also a school of thought popular because of its rejection of the supposedly universalizing categories of the Enlightenment. In this devastating critique, mounted on behalf of the radical Enlightenment tradition, Vivek Chibber offers the most comprehensive response yet to postcolonial theory. Focusing on the hugely popular Subaltern Studies project, Chibber shows that its foundational arguments are based on a series of analytical and historical misapprehensions. He demonstrates that it is possible to affirm a universalizing theory without succumbing to Eurocentrism or reductionism.

First published in http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/news/distributed/postcolonial-theory-and-the-spectre-of-capital-with-vivek-chibber-soas-17-october

 

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Marxism, Orientalism and Cosmopolitanism

North Atlantic Oscillation

MARXISM, ORIENTALISM AND COSMOPOLITANISM

From Gilbert Achcar:

My book The People Want: A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising has been released this month in the US (available since July in the UK). I am happy to inform you of the publication of yet another book of mine, which is a collection of essays.

Recently released in the UK: http://www.saqibooks.co.uk/ book/marxism-orientalism- cosmopolitanism/

Next month in the US: http://www.haymarketbooks.org/ pb/Marxism-Orientalism- Cosmopolitanism

Below, FYI, is the Table of Contents.

Foreword 7

Religion and Politics Today from a Marxian Perspective 10
Marx’s view of religion 12
Religion and radicalism today: liberation theology 16
Religion and radicalism today: Islamic fundamentalism 23
For a Marxian comparative sociology of religions 28
Political conclusions 35

Orientalism in Reverse:
Post-1979 Trends in French Orientalism 40
“Orientalism in reverse” 41
Post-1979 French Orientalists 45
French “Orientalism in reverse” 47
The meanderings of French “Orientalism in reverse” 56

Marx, Engels and “Orientalism”:
On Marx’s Epistemological Evolution 68
Said’s Orientalism and its Marxist critique 68
Orientalism, essentialism and idealism 73
Marx and Engels’ radical break with historical idealism 78
Were Marx and Engels Eurocentric? 82
The political/epistemological evolution
of Marx and Engels 88
Critical Marxism and Orientalism 96

Marxism and Cosmopolitanism 103
Four conceptions of cosmopolitanism 103
Marx and Engels’ initial conception of cosmopolitanism 107
The maturation of Marx and Engels’
conception of cosmopolitanism 116
Cosmopolitanism and internationalism 123
“Cosmopolitanism” after Marx and Engels:
Kautsky, Gramsci and the Comintern 128
“Cosmopolitanism” as anathema: the Stalinist perversion 134
Cosmopolitanism and “globalisation” 144

Bibliography and References 165

 

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Samir Amin: Six Decades of Development Debate

Samir Amin

SAMIR AMIN: SIX DECADES OF DEVELOPMENT DEBATE

Seminars with the renowned Egyptian economist Samir Amin, which took place on 25 and 26 April at SOAS, University of London, are now available online.

The seminars (with links to the film) include:

The Deployment of the Bandung Project (1955 – 1970)

Neoliberalism and the Decline of the Bandung Project (1975 – 2000)

The Second Wave of the Rise of the South; the Emerging Countries (as of 2000)

Professor Samir Amin is Director of the Third World Forum (Dakar, Senegal). He is one of the most prominent theorists of the political economy of development and global accumulation as well as one of the best-known analysts of Arab and African economies.

Organiser Professor Gilbert Achcar commented: “The Department of Development Studies at SOAS was delighted to host these three lectures by Professor Samir Amin, one of the best-known names in the field, a thinker who emerged since the 1960s as a major and most prominent contributor to the study of development and to the debates on North-South relations.”

To view the seminars please click on the individual links above.

First published in http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/news/distributed/samir-amin-six-decades-of-development-debate

 

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Delhi Historical Materialism Conference 2013: Update

Karl Marx

DELHI HISTORICAL MATERIALISM CONFERENCE 2013: UPDATE

The organisers of the Delhi HM Conference (3-5 April 2013) are appealing to supporters and readers of HM for contributions towards the airfares of 2 speakers from abroad whom we’ve got down for our plenary sessions. The rough target is 1200 pounds in total.

Any donations, however small, would be most welcome!  http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/conferences/delhifunds

Please also note that the conference venue has now been shifted to the Convention Centre in JNU. There is an extra conference day as well, 5th April.

Here’s a small sample of what’s on offer from a total of 48 sessions and 3 plenaries:

* Alberto Toscano and Matteo Mandarini,‘The Communist intellectual: Lessons from some Italian debates’;

* Andreas Merkens, ‘Counterhegemony, political education & pedagogy in Antonio Gramsci’;

* João Arsénio Nunes, ‘The revolutionary thought of Alvaro Cunhal’;

* Jeff Goodwin, ‘How kings survived the Arab spring’;

* Gilbert Achcar on the Arab uprising & its aftermath;

* Ajit Zacharias on domestic labor, value of labor-power and poverty;

* Pranav Jani and Nivedita Majumdar on postcolonial theory;

* Teesta Setalvad and Harsh Mander on Gujarat ten years after the genocide;

* Apoorvanand, Ishwar Singh Dost, Kumar Rana and Kamal Chenoy on the crisis of the Indian left;

* Brinda Bose on ‘Queer matriarchies’;

* Jean Dreze on ‘Anarchist thought & the future of the Left’;

* Moinak Biswas on ‘The political film in crisis’;

* Javed Anand on the Muslim Right in India & Pakistan;

* Saroj Giri on Maoists in Nepal;

* A LeftWord Books panel on ‘Communist histories’;

* Soma Marik on Rosa Luxemburg & the party;

* Uday Chandra on the ‘State, popular resistance & “democracy” in the forests of eastern India’;

And loads more including the launch of Vivek Chibber’s new book Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital; films by Kluge and others; books…

Submissions Update: https://rikowski.wordpress.com/2012/09/14/historical-materialism-conference-in-delhi-submissions-update/ 

First published in http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/news/distributed/delhi-historical-materialism-conference-3-5-april-2013

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Development and Revolution: Roots of the Arab Uprising

Egypt

DEVELOPMENT AND REVOLUTION: ROOTS OF THE ARAB UPRISING

http://www.soas.ac.uk/about/events/inaugurals/21nov2012-development–revolution-the-roots-of-the-arab-uprising.html

Development & Revolution: The Roots of the Arab Uprising
Professor Gilbert Achcar

Date:  21 November 2012 Time: 6:30 PM
Finishes:  21 November 2012Time: 8:30 PM
Venue: Brunei Gallery Room: Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre
Type of Event: Inaugural Lecture
Series: SOAS Inaugural Lecture Series

This lecture will examine the underpinnings of the revolutionary process ignited in North Africa and the Middle East in December 2010, in order to assess its potential future course. It will critically discuss various explanations of the Arab uprising that attribute it to political causes, the economic conjuncture, or economic policies. The lecture will relate the Arab uprising to structural social features that have been blocking development for decades in the region. It will then assess what can be inferred from the identification of these factors with regard to the dynamics and future of the ongoing process.

Gilbert Achcar joined SOAS as Professor of Development Studies and International Relations in 2007. Before London, he taught or researched in Beirut, Paris and Berlin. His recent books include The Clash of Barbarisms: The Making of the New World Disorder (2002, 2nd ed. 2006, translated into thirteen languages); Perilous Power: The Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy, co-authored with Noam Chomsky (2006, 2nd ed. 2007); and the critically acclaimed The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives (2010). His next book, The People Want: A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising, will come out in the spring of 2013.

To attend this free lecture, register here.
Organiser: SOAS Events
Contact email: events@soas.ac.uk
Contact Tel: 020 7898 4013

Published in http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/news/distributed/development-revolution-the-roots-of-the-arab-uprising-with-gilbert-achcar-soas-21-november

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Globalisation in Time

Time

GLOBALISATION IN TIME

‘THE GLOBALISATION LECTURES’

2012-2013

Organised by the Department of Development Studies

School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)

University of London

Convenor: Professor Gilbert Achcar

GLOBALISATION IN TIME: BETWEEN THE CAMERA AND THE CLOCK

(A video and slides will be shown during the lecture.)

MARCUS VERHAGEN

Art historian and critic, Sotheby’s Institute of Art and Goldsmiths College, University of London

Wednesday 31 October, 6:30pm

SOAS, Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre

Free entrance, no booking required, first come first seated

MARCUS VERHAGEN is an art historian and critic who has taught at universities in the USA and the UK. In the years since 2002, when he started to work on contemporary art, he has written over 60 articles and reviews for art magazines such as Art Monthly, Frieze and Art Review. He has also published in several journals, including Representations, Third Text, New Left Review and Afterall. He currently teaches at Sotheby’s Institute of Art and Goldsmiths College.

 

Published first  in http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/news/distributed/globalisation-in-time-between-the-camera-and-the-clock-with-marcus-verhagen-soas-31-october

 

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International Socialism Journal – Number 134

Socialism and Hope

INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM JOURNAL – NUMBER 134 

Now Out!

See: http://www.isj.org.uk/

 

Analysis

Rumours of crisis, revolution and war
Alex Callinicos

Interview – Greece: the struggle radicalises

France: anti-capitalist politics in crisis

The politics of the Scottish independence referendum
Neil Davidson

The shock of the new: anti-capitalism and the crisis
Jonny Jones

‘Most humble day’: the Murdoch empire on the defensive
John Newsinger

The growth paradigm: a critique
Gareth Dale

Housing: as it is, and as it might be
David Renton

Pitfalls and radical mutations: Frantz Fanon’s revolutionary life
Leo Zeilig

The late Christopher Hitchens
Richard Seymour

Feedback

Explaining the crisis or heresy hunting? A response to Joseph Choonara
David McNally

The Morales government: neoliberalism in disguise?
Federico Fuentes

Letter to the editor: Libya
Gilbert Achcar

Book Reviews

Race and class in the US
Nicola Ginsburgh

After the fall
Gabriele Piazza

Materialism vs creationism
Amy Gilligan

Thought for food
Dave Sewell

Another social work is possible
Francesca Byron

How green was my valley?
Tim Evans

Nude, shrewd but sometimes crude
Joseph Choonara

Remembering E P Thompson
Christian Hogsbjerg

Pick of the quarter

This quarter’s selection

 

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Hisham Matar: Men Who Tiptoe Into Their Marital Bedroom

Marital Bedroom

HISHAM MATAR: MEN WHO TIPTOE INTO THEIR MARITAL BEDROOM

HISHAM MATAR was born in New York City to Libyan parents and spent his childhood first in Tripoliand then in Cairo.  His first novel, In the Country of Men, was published in 2006 and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Guardian First Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award in the U.S.It won six international literary awards, including the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best First Book award for Europe and South Asia, the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the inaugural Arab American Book Award. It has been translated into twenty-eight languages. Hisham Matar lives in London.

‘THE GLOBALISATION LECTURES’
Winter 2012
Organised by the Department of Development Studies
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
University of London
Convenor: Professor Gilbert Achcar

MEN WHO TIPTOE INTO THEIR MARITAL BEDROOMS: THE NOVELIST AND DICTATORSHIP

HISHAM MATAR
Libyan novelist, author of In the Country of Men and Anatomy of a Disappearance

Monday 5 March, 6:30pm
SOAS, Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre
Free entrance, registration requested (link on the SOAS front page), first come first seated

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‘I believe in the afterlife.

It starts tomorrow,

When I go to work’

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‘Stagnant’ – a new remix and new video by Cold Hands & Quarter Moon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkP_Mi5ideo  

‘Cheerful Sin’ – a song by Victor Rikowski: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIbX5aKUjO8

‘The Lamb’ by William Blake – set to music by Victor Rikowski: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw3VloKBvZc

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Oxford Radical Forum 2012

Oxford

OXFORD RADICAL FORUM 2012

OXFORD RADICAL FORUM 2012: 2 – 4  MARCH 2012

http://orf2012.wordpress.com/
http://www.facebook.com/events/179785195464536/

>> Speakers from the Middle East & North Africa Revolutions >>
>> Skype Link-up with Occupy Wall St. Activists >>
>> Terry Eagleton on his New Book: Why Marx was Right >>

…and much more at this year’s…

>>OXFORD RADICAL FORUM >>
>>2 – 4  MARCH 2012>>

In the last year, as the global economic crisis has deepened, we have seen revolutions sweep dictators from power across the Middle East and North Africa and resistance to austerity spread across Europe and the US with the Occupy Movement. There have been a number of general strikes in Greece and mass strikes in Britain.

This year’s Oxford Radical Forum (ORF) will be held from 2-4th March. This will be the fifth anniversary of the forum, run by students, lecturers and local activists based in the city. This year it is bigger than ever, with almost thirty sessions over a host of colleges and venues during the weekend.

The forum opens with ‘the MENA Revolutions: One Year On’, with Nadine El-Enany (activist from Cairo), Gilbert Achcar (SOAS), Anne Alexander (Cambridge) and Firoze Manji (Pambazuka Press). This will be followed by a discussion between Terry Eagleton and Alex Callinicos on ‘Why Marx was Right’.

Over the weekend, we will bring together Occupy activists from New York via live link-up with activists from Occupy London, for reflections on how the movement has changed politics and on how it can develop. International perspectives will also be brought by sessions on political struggle from Latin America to the Eurozone to China. A meeting on sexual liberation will be joined by Ghassan Makaram, a Lebanese LGBTQ activist. On Saturday, Greg Philo will join Moshe Machover and Daphna Baram for a meeting on Palestine and the Media.

This year’s line-up also reflects rising levels of resistance to austerity in Britain. We will bring together trade unionists from public and private sectors, students and community activists. Our session on the future of education will discuss this government’s decision to withdraw its Higher Education Bill with John Holmwood (Campaign for the Public University) and others. We will also have important sessions on ‘Defending the Right to Protest’, ‘Race, Racism and Resistance’, and even ‘Radical Science’.

As always the event is entirely FREE, but we welcome and encourage donations towards the costs of putting on the Forum.

We hope you will join us at the event. Spread the word!

Further information on speakers and timetables will be available and updated here:
http://orf2012.wordpress.com/

Contact Us: 2012oxfordradicalforum@gmail.com
Twitter: @orf2012
#oxfordradicalforum

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‘Stagnant’ – a new remix and new video by Cold Hands & Quarter Moon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkP_Mi5ideo  

‘The Lamb’ by William Blake – set to music by Victor Rikowski: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw3VloKBvZc

 

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Richmond University London Annual Colloquium

 

Aesthetics

RICHMOND UNIVERSITY LONDON ANNUAL COLLOQUIUM

“The Future of the ‘Arab Spring’; Western Power-Politics in the Middle East in an Era of Diminished Expectations”

Friday, 23 March 2012, 17 Young Street, London W8 5EH (High Street Kensington)

Programme

10.00am Registration

10.30 Welcome Address by Prof John Annette, President, Richmond University

10.45-11.30 Opening address Prof Mustapha Kamal Pasha, University of Aberdeen, “The winter of neo-liberal discontent; the ‘Arab Spring’ in global context” (Chair/Discussant:  Prof Phil Deans, Provost, RU)

11.30 – 13.00 Prof Francois Nectoux, Kingston University, “France and the Libyan crisis”, Dr. Hasan Turunc, RU, “Turkish foreign policy and the ‘Arab Spring’” (Chair/Discussant: Dr. James Boys, RU)

13.30 – 14.15 Lunch

14.15 – 15.00 Keynote address by Prof Gilbert Achcar, SOAS, “Western power-politics in the Middle East in an era of diminished expectations” (Discussant:  Dr. Hadi Enayat RU, Chair: Prof Wolfgang Deckers, RU)

15.00 – 15.30 Discussion

15.30 – 16.00 Tea/Coffee

16.00 – 17.30 Dr Nicola Pratt, Warwick University, “The Arab-Israeli conflict in the wake of the ‘Arab Spring’”, Dr. Alexander Kazamias, Coventry University, “Egypt’s blocked revolution: the post-colonial state strikes back” ( Discussant: Dr. Preslava Stoeva, RU; Chair: Dr. Martin Brown, RU)

17.30 – 17.40 Profs Alex Seago, Head of Social Sciences, RU, and Vassilis K. Fouskas, RU, “Concluding remarks”

Further information and booking from: jelena.pivovarova@richmond.ac.uk, 0207-3688437

Visit the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals

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‘Human Herbs’ – a new remix and new video by Cold Hands & Quarter Moon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au-vyMtfDAs

‘Stagnant’ – a new remix and new video by Cold Hands & Quarter Moon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkP_Mi5ideo  

‘Cheerful Sin’ – a song by Victor Rikowski: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIbX5aKUjO8

‘The Lamb’ by William Blake – set to music by Victor Rikowski: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw3VloKBvZc

 

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