This is a guest post by Numa. She identifies as Bangladeshi-Austrian for the sake of convenience, and works in the field of International Development for which she sometimes gets paid a living wage. She has the ambition of engaging and encouraging wider dialogue on development from a dusty perspective and hopes that she can contribute [...]
All posts tagged Postcolonialism
Privilege, Power, Colonialism, and International Development – Part 2
Posted by Jaded on September 7, 2011
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2011/09/07/privilege-power-colonialism-and-international-development-%e2%80%93-part-2/
Between The Lines
Recently I came across Sara Ahmed’s fantastic essay ‘Feminist Killjoys (And other Willful Subjects)’ and have been re-reading several sections of the essay since. I identify with more parts of the essay than I can count, but one line that never leaves me is “[As a feminist killjoy] you become the problem you create” –- [...]
Posted by Jaded on June 22, 2011
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2011/06/22/between-the-lines/
Borrowed Memories And Half-Sounded Syllables
Last week, I saw ‘A Passage To India‘ with my parents and grandma, it started out as a hilarious exercise in pointing out just how many racist elements could one mesh in a movie — turns out more than we can ever count! — and making cynical notes in my head like, “Not all Indians are [...]
Posted by Jaded on April 25, 2011
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/borrowed-memories-and-half-sounded-syllables/
Writing Over Bodies
My book obsession is quite well known, in most circles I move and am allowed in; there is a long-standing joke that I don’t need food but just a fresh page to live. So when my student asked me rhetorically whether I ‘ever tire of theory’, he was rather surprised to know I did — [...]
Posted by Jaded on April 13, 2011
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/writing-over-bodies/
