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Controlling Women, Controlling Society – Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan
In this post, Mira Mookerjee reflects on the Anthony Hyman Memorial Lecture Controlling women, controlling society: the politics of virtue in Afghanistan with Richard Bennett. Since the Taliban regained power in 2021, girls and women in Afghanistan have been unable to attend secondary school and higher education, making it the only country in the world to…
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Reclaiming Narrative Sovereignty: A Lesson in Challenging Epistemic Erasure
How do Palestinian classrooms counter dominant narratives in the media? Hussein AlAhmad, an Associate Professor of Strategic Communication at Arab American University in Palestine, asks this question in an article recently published in Third World Quarterly. This blog reflects the heart of his research: how can education become an epistemic infrastructure for narrative sovereignty? In Palestine,…
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Third World Radicals: A New SI from TWQ
This Third World Quarterly (TWQ) special issue, titled “Third World Radicals”, shows how activists and thinkers from Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa have swapped ideas, images and tactics from the 1950s to the present. The eight articles move beyond headline cases like Cuba and Algeria to uncover lesser-known stories: Kurdish experiments with…
