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Joe Saunders interviews Alison Stone about gender and sex in Hegel. They discuss how we should treat Hegel’s views on these topics, both their problematic elements, but also the potentially liberatory ones. This includes a discussion of the master-slave dialectic, and how it was taken up by feminist thinkers such as de Beauvoir.

In this far-ranging and erudite exploration of the South Asian past, Sumit Guha discusses the shaping of social and historical memory in world-historical context.

China’s Capitalism and the World
November 19, 2020 - Webinar
The past decades have witnessed a dramatic increase in the pace and scale of global capitalist expansion; the rapidity of consequent social transformations is in part due to China’s increasing participation in these processes. The Belt and Road Initiative and its associated infrastructure projects have received a huge amount of attention, but this webinar expands the focus to less understood and less often seen aspects of the (…)

DESCRIPTION: In 2005, the Jagori Women’s Resource Centre in Delhi began to develop a multi-stakeholder research and organizing project for women to evaluate their cities for safety, map the results, and use the data to call publicly for change. As of 2020, the project, now based in Haryana, India, and known as Safetipin, has spread to Latin America, Africa, and much of the Asia-Pacific region. Their reports can be found at safetipin.com Founder Kalpana Viswanath described the project in her 2015 address to the International Association of Women in Radio and Television