Take your time but be quick about it, because you do not know what awaits you (Jacques Derrida).1Jacques Derrida, Without Alibi (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002), 237. The heady days of Occupy Central have passed. The 79 day occupation of the centre of Hong...
Knowledge is always situated. As a young scholar from China working on western theories, I always felt frustrated with the eurocentrism embedded within them. The frustration comes first because they are not addressing the problems lingering in my mind; and second at...
Several analysts of the peace process currently under way in Colombia have overlooked the curious parallel between the guerrilla insurgents’ proposal to establish some 50 Peasant Reserve Zones (ZRCs in their Spanish initials) in the national territory and the...
Christopher Mattison: During an interview that you gave with Madina Tlostanova in 2009, you posed the question (as a response) “Why save it at all?”—in regards to the economic system and the looming financial crisis. You continued by stating that it wasn’t the...
This text was read at the ceremony of the Nobel Peace Prize 2010, which was awarded to Liu Xiaobo ‘for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China’ “Twenty years on, the innocent souls of June Fourth are yet to rest in...
