¡AGITATE! Felicita a La Profesora Shailaja Paik en reconocimiento a ella como ganadora de la beca MacArthur!

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“Al estudiar las desigualdades y la deshumanización de la gente, se puede brindar nuevas maneras de pensar sobre la humanidad universal y la emancipación universal”. Esta perspicacia agitadora es de la historiadora Shailaja Paik, las cuyas investigaciones ingeniosas, creativas y rigurosas sobre las historias de casta, género y sexualidad en la India moderna por mediación…

ప్రొ . శైలజ పైక్ కు మెకార్థర్ ఫెలో గా గుర్తింపు లభించిన సందర్భంలో యాజిటెట్! హృదయ పూర్వక శుభాకాంక్షలు తెలుపుతోంది

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“మనుషుల మధ్య అసమానతలు, మనుషుల అమానవీకరణ గురించి చేసే అధ్యయనాలు విశ్వజనీన మానవత్వం, సార్వత్రిక విముక్తి కి సంబంధించి కొత్త ఆలోచనలకు దారులు వేస్తాయి”       ఈ లోచూపు చరిత్రకారిణి  శైలజ పైక్ ఆమె దళిత స్త్రీల జీవిత విశ్లేషణల ద్వారా ఆధునిక భారత దేశంలో కులం, జెండర్, లైంగికత ల చరిత్రల గురించి జరిపిన అద్భుతమైన పరిశోధనల నుండి వచ్చింది. మేధో శక్తి, సృజనాత్మకత, నిర్దిష్టత కలబోసి ఆవిడ చేసిన పని భారత సమాజంలో అధికారం,…

AGITATE! slavi profesoricu Shailaja Paik i njezino priznanje kao MacArthur Fellow!

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„Proučavanjem nejednakosti i dehumanizacije ljudi, možemo ponuditi nove načine razmišljanja o univerzalnoj ljudskosti i univerzalnoj emancipaciji.“ Ova agitirajuća misao dolazi od povjesničarke Shailaja Paik, čija su genijalna, kreativna i rigorozna istraživanja povijesti kaste, roda i seksualnosti u suvremenoj Indiji kroz živote Dalit žena preobrazila način na koji istražujemo i pišemo o mehanizmima moći i stvaranju…

AGITATE! പ്രൊഫസർ ശൈലജ പൈക്ക് മക്കാർത്തർ ഫെലോയായി അംഗീകരിക്കപ്പെട്ടതിനെ ആഘോഷിക്കുന്നു!

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“മനുഷ്യരിലുണ്ടായിരിക്കുന്ന അസമത്വങ്ങളും മനുഷ്യത്വഹനനവും പഠിക്കുന്നത്, സാർവ്വമാനവികതയെയും , വിമുക്തിയെയും കുറിച്ചുള്ള പുതിയ ചിന്തകൾക്ക് വഴിയൊരുക്കുന്നു.” ഈ നിർണ്ണായക നിരൂപണം ചരിത്രകാരി ശൈലജ പൈക്കിന്റെ കാഴ്‌ചയിൽ നിന്നാണ്. ആധുനിക ഇന്ത്യയിൽ ദളിത് സ്ത്രീകളുടെ ജീവിതത്തിലൂടെ ജാതി, ലിംഗം, ലൈംഗീകത എങ്ങനെ പ്രവർത്തിക്കുന്നു എന്നതിനെക്കുറിച്ചുള്ള അവരുടെ നിർണ്ണായകമായ അന്വേഷണങ്ങൾ, അധികാരത്തിന്റെ പ്രവർത്തനങ്ങളും, അരികുവൽക്കരപ്പെട്ടവരുടെ പോരാട്ടങ്ങളെക്കുറിച്ചുള്ള ഗവേഷണരീതികളും എഴുത്തുപരമ്പരയും പുനർവ്യവസ്ഥപ്പെടുത്തിയിരിക്കുന്നു. AGITATE! 2024-ൽ മക്കാർത്തർ ഫെല്ലോഷിപ്പ് നേടിയ ശൈലജ പൈകിന്റെ അംഗീകാരം ആഘോഷിക്കുന്നു. ഈ വർഷത്തെ ഫെല്ലോഷിപ്പ് നേടിയവരിൽ കവിയായ ജെറിക്കോ…

அஜிடேட்! வாழ்த்திக் கொண்டாடுகின்றது பேராசிரியர் ஷைலஜா பைக்கிற்கு மெக் ஆர்தர் விருதின் வழங்கப்படல் மூலம் அவரது பணிக்குக் கிடைத்துள்ள அங்கீகாரம்

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“மனிதருள் விளங்கும் அசமத்துவம் மற்றும் மனிதம் மறுக்கப்படலை ஆராய்வதன் மூலம் ஒட்டுமொத்த மனிதம் மற்றும் ஒட்டுமொத்த விடுதலை பற்றி சிந்திப்பதற்கான புது வழிகளை கண்டெடுக்கலாம்” இந்தக் கலகக்காரக் கருத்து வரலாற்றுவியலாளர் ஷைலஜா பைக்கினுடையது. தலித் பெண்களின் வாழ்வின் மூலம், நவீன இந்தியாவில் பால்நிலை, சாதி மற்றும் பாலியல்பு பற்றி அவர் செய்துள்ள திடமான, ஆக்கபூர்வமான மற்றும் கூர்மையான ஆய்வின் மூலம், விளிம்புநிலையிலிரிருந்து ஆதிக்கம் மற்றும் போராட்ட வரலாறுகளை நாம் ஆராயும் மற்றும் எழுதும் முறைமைகளில் பெரும் மாற்றம்…

Vera Vujović

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Prije 7. 10. 2023. moja bi se biografska bilješka uobičajeno pozivala na reference ustanova (završenog studija/ članstva umjetničko-strukovnih udruga/ nakladničkih imena/ objavljenih naslova) kao unaprijed jamstvo određene vrijednosti prijevoda, i za mene i za čitatelja. Međutim, ubrzo nakon tog datuma umjesto pozivanja na njih, ja ih, naprotiv, opozivam, jer se pokazalo da više nemaju smisla…

Ratne vijesti: The Croatian translation of War News

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Inicijativa za slobodnu Palestinu i časopis AGITATE! objavljuju Ratne vijesti u prijevodu Vere Vujović, hrvatsku verziju zbirke War News pjesnika Beau Beausoleila. Knjiga donosi pjesme nastale u prvih stotinu dana genocida u Gazi. Inicijativa za slobodnu Palestinu ugostila je pjesnika i članice uredničkog kolektiva časopisa AGITATE! tijekom jedne od mjesečnih višejezičnih poetskih večeri “Gaza Undated”…

Piro Rexepi

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Piro Rexepi is a research fellow at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at UCL. He is the author of White Enclosures: Racial Capitalism and Coloniality along the Balkan Route (Duke University Press, 2023).

Yesterday Srebrenica, Today Gaza

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By Emina Bužinkić & Piro Rexepi   This article was first published on dversia (October 9th, 2024), a Bulgarian-based critical outlet. It has been republished here with the authors’ permission.   Instigated by Germany and Rwanda, the United Nations recently brought to the fore the question of the Bosnian genocide denial and proposed recognizing the mass massacre of…

Sowmya Ramanathan

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Sowmya Ramanathan is a visiting faculty member of Hispanic Studies in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at William & Mary. As a researcher and educator, her work makes transnational connections between feminist theories and cultural practices in the 20th and 21st century Americas. She adopts a hemispheric approach to studying the role of…

Series Co-editors’ Prologue to Sowmya Ramanathan’s Agitation, “Nature with Culture: Learning from Afro-Colombian feminists to imagine gender beyond the human”

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By Ponni Arasu, in conversation with Richa Nagar   *This is part of the ongoing series Holding Movements, Agitating Epistemes convened and co-edited by Ponni Arasu and Richa Nagar.* Read Sowmya Ramanathan’s piece here.   Sowmya Ramanathan’s intervention is a breath of fresh air. She drives home the critical point that just as the conservative coupling of…

SOLIDARITY FROM ABOLITION ACTIVISTS & SCHOLARS TO SERBIA’S STUDENT BLOCKADES

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As activists, artists  and scholars, we send our solidarity with Serbian students, educators and academics, workers, artists and activists who have been instrumental in launching blockades, both big and small throughout Serbia, calling attention to the systematic corruption of President Aleksandar Vučić and members of the Serbian Progressive Party. These protests followed as a result…

Feminists For a Free Palestine. Stop the Genocide. End the Occupation. Arms Embargo now! — Diverse Feminist Collective, Bangladesh, April 2025

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Feminists For a Free Palestine. Stop the Genocide. End the Occupation. Arms Embargo now! As feminists, activists, artists, researchers, and organizers who are rooted in movements, and movement building for the right to self-determination, we stand in solidarity with our comrades resisting genocide and are joining the fight for liberation of Palestine.    We refuse…

A message from Gaza, from the writer Amal Abu Asi

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Amal Abu Asi This poem was originally published on Jewish Voice for Labor on October 18th, 2024.  Bangla translation by Mohymeen Layes Croatian translation by Vera Vujović   Peace be upon you, This is my final message. If you see fit to share it, I would be grateful. If we depart, fold away our page…

গাজ্জার চিঠি, আমাল আবু আসি

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আসসালামু আলাইকুম, এটাই আমার শেষ বার্তা। যদি তুমি ভাবো এটা শেয়ার করা যায়, কৃতজ্ঞ থাকবো। যদি আমরা চলে যাই, আমাদের পৃষ্ঠাকে ভাঁজ করে রেখো চিরতরে। তোমার স্মৃতির খাতা থেকে ফিলিস্তিন মুছে ফেলো, তোমার তো আর ফিলিস্তিনকে দরকার নেই। তোমার বন্ধুদের বলো, একদিন সেখানে আশা ছিল, পরে তা মিটে গেছে। এমন ভাবে জীবন চালিয়ে যাও, যেন…

Samira Bashar

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Samira Bashar is a PhD Candidate in the Community and Regional Planning program at the University of Texas at Austin. Samira’s research interests lie at the intersection of equitable waterscape planning, informal urbanism and decolonial practices in the context of South Asia. Originally from Bangladesh, Samira received her MSCRP degree from UT and her Bachelor…

Decolonize Bangladesh’s Dominant Environmentalism

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This vibrant illustration depicts a diverse landscape in Bangladesh, combining elements of rural life, urban development, and environmental themes. The overall impression is that of a stylized map or aerial view, rendered in a

Decolonizing, that is attentive to our complicities, is more than a practice of critique and reflection. It is an insurgent orientation toward political futuring or prefiguring—one that reclaims planning, environmental knowledge, and memory from the logics of dispossession. It involves making space for radically different epistemologies and practices that emerge from the daily lifeworlds of riverine communities.

Poruka iz Gaze spisateljice Amal Abu Asi

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Mir s vama, Ovo je moja zadnja poruka. Ako vam bude pogodno dijeliti, bit ću zahvalna. Ako odemo, presavijte našu stranicu trajno. Istrgnite Palestinu iz bilježnice svog sjećanja, jer ne treba vam više. Prijateljima kažite kako je jednom bilo nade, a onda se ugasila. Živite dalje kao da nije ni bilo nas — igrajte igre,…

Meera Karunananthan

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Meera Karunananthan is an Assistant Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies at Carleton University, located on unceded Algonquin Anishinaabe territory in Ottawa, Canada. Her research and teaching sit at the intersection of feminist political ecology, critical geography, and anti-colonial scholarship, with a focus on water justice and the racialized political economy of infrastructure. She is currently investigating…

Laura Kim

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Laura Kim is currently an Ada Comstock Scholar majoring in biology at Smith College. She seeks to reconcile her non-traditional background, Korean-American identity, and academia by embracing the messiness of these competing narratives. She has won numerous research and academic awards during her time at community college. Through her scholarship, resilience, and commitment to honoring…