I read a very interesting tweet yesterday (from black_canada) which said that “the real work of empathy and solidarity comes through identification with those we can never be.” This extremely profound statement made me reflect on solidarity in a whole new way. During my fieldwork in Cairo where I interviewed Egyptians who protested during the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Others’
Identifying with people different from us
Posted in Global, Identity, Intersectionality, Others, Solidarity, tagged Identities, Others, Solidarity on April 2, 2012 | 5 Comments »
West & Multiculturalism
Posted in Europe, Global, Identity, Islam, Islamophobia, Modernity, Others, Politics, Power, Racism, West, tagged Europe, Islamophobia, Multiculturalism, Others on July 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I just wanted to share one of the best articles I’ve read recently, called “On the West’s Moral Panic Over Multiculturalism” by Gary Younge. For certain groups the price for belonging and conditions for banishment have shifted dramatically in Western nations, particularly but by no means exclusively in Europe, in recent years. Citizenship is no [...]
Defining others
Posted in Colonialism, Defining, Europe, Identity, Islamophobia, Muslim world, Neo-colonialism, Others, Sexuality, West, tagged Defining, Identity, Others, Sexuality, West on April 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
What I have always found interesting is that the power to define others is one of the strongest powers in the history of mankind. For the past few centuries, the west has had the power to define pretty much the rest of the world, and this has resulted in often contradictory ideas and discourses. 2 [...]
