#MustRead
"The management of difference is central to modern statecraft...as a political identity, 'native' was the creation of intellectuals of an empire-in-crisis."
--Mahmood Mamdani (Define and Rule: Native as Political Identity, 2012)
amazon.com/Define-Rule-Bo…
"The management of difference is central to modern statecraft...as a political identity, 'native' was the creation of intellectuals of an empire-in-crisis."
--Mahmood Mamdani (Define and Rule: Native as Political Identity, 2012)
amazon.com/Define-Rule-Bo…
"Colonial powers were the first political fundamentalists of the modern period."
To them, "every colonized group has an original and pure tradition [and] must be made to return to that original condition, and the return must be enforced by law."
- Mahmood Mamdani
To them, "every colonized group has an original and pure tradition [and] must be made to return to that original condition, and the return must be enforced by law."
- Mahmood Mamdani
1) colonized groups have a pure, original tradition
2) groups must be returned to that state via force of law
"Together, these two propositions constitute the basic platform of every political fundamentalism in the colonial and postcolonial world."
2) groups must be returned to that state via force of law
"Together, these two propositions constitute the basic platform of every political fundamentalism in the colonial and postcolonial world."
https://twitter.com/MsEntropy/status/1522353288410136576?s=20&t=x4fpGJMQsrjWv5g4ZZDXZg
Just do yourself (and the world) a favor and read everything Mahmood Mamdani has ever written.
https://twitter.com/MsEntropy/status/1492183088968855554?s=20&t=Ww95J9STran1pZElXtDU2Q
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