Liberalism
Postcolonial Melancholia
Paul Gilroy is a celebrated author but the 2002 Wellek Library Lectures published as a book in “Postcolonial Melancholia” (2004) may not be the best way to access his ideas. The lecture format might make the content more time bound and also geographically tied (to the British context). I will seek other avenues to Gilroy, […]
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Black Rights / White Wrongs – Critique of Racial Liberalism
In 2017 Charles W. Mills brought together past work with more recent additions and reflections into the book “Black Rights / While Wrongs: The Critique of Radical Liberalism”. For readers of The Racial Contract (1997), many of the key arguments will be familiar in this book. The author passed away in 2021, this book brings together […]
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The Liberal Virus
For additional background on Samir Amin see my posts on Unequal Development (1976) and Capitalism in the Age of Globalization (1997). Some notes from his 2004 book “The Liberal Virus: Permanent War and the Americanization of the World”: “Towards the end of the twentieth century a sickness struck the world. Not everyone died, but all […]
Tags: #Americanization #Globalization #Liberal Virus #Liberalism #Samir Amin
Secular Translations
A couple of notes from Talal Asad’s “Secular Translations: Nation-State, Modern Self and Calculative Reason” (2018): “Today an important failure is our inability to create a form of collective life on this planet radically different from the liberal capitalist states in which we live. The failure seems to be due not to any lack of […]
Tags: #Capitalism #Language #Liberalism #Secular Translations #Talal Asad
About me
Logan Cochrane
Associate Professor at HBKU in the College of Public Policy. He is an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and an Adjunct Professor at Hawassa University (Institute for Policy and Development Research). Over the last fifteen years, he has worked in Afghanistan, Benin, Burundi, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Logan acts as a consultant for governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations, seeking to create bridges between research and practice.
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