Why Empires Fall | Full Interview | Homi Bhabha

[@meghkalyanasundaram8720]

"Postcolonial studies is nothing other than thinking about the moment of enlightenment in relation to colonisation, thinking about the construction of nation and civil society in the West while Western powers were involved in creating colonies in the, what we now call the global South... Postcolonial studies is about the connections, between things we have often not put together, to say that the Enlightenment also had its origins in Empire, that Bentham's notion of the panopticon, was first tried out in India, that John Stuart Mill, you know, whose word on Liberty is accepted every where in the world says "that I am a democrat in my own country" -- a proponent of liberalism -- "and a despot in somebody else's country,"... So, John Stuart Mill's paradox - I am a democrat in my country and a despot in somebody else's country - gives you, in brief, the whole story about postcolonial studies. How do we think about democracy and despotism coexisting in different parts of the world but at the same time. and what are the lessons we learn from that." [almost verbatim]

[@TheNaturalLawInstitute]

Correct.

[@littlesometin]

@@js-wl3wi So what are you, pro-colonialism? Why do you hate him so much?

[@suemccarthy1937]

Yes. Suddenly and always ......

[@marc-antoinevumilia4492]

If he could write the same way he speaks, we could understand his books easier. Thanks, anyway, this is a great intellectual!

[@DustyLuckyCharms]

The description of this video has nothing to do with the content

[@curtd59]

Sound and fury signifying nothing.

[@TheRandomBiscuit]

I disagree.

[@tefaruque]

You are wrong

[@TheNaturalLawInstitute]

@@tefaruque That doesn't happen very often. My most common mistake is overestimating the competence of my fellow man. Otherwise my record is pretty enviable.

[@RenelioM]

Congratulations. You have the "enlightened" Taliban in power now in Afghanistan.