The Malcolm Effect

In this episode, Professor Radhika Desai gives us a masterclass on our geopolitical situation.    Dr. Radhika Desai is Professor at the Department of Political Studies, and Director, Geopolitical Economy Research Group, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. She is the author of Geopolitical Economy: After US Hegemony, Globalization and Empire (2013), Slouching Towards Ayodhya: From Congress to Hindutva in Indian Politics (2nd rev ed, 2004) and Intellectuals and Socialism: ‘Social Democrats’ and the Labour Party (1994), a New Statesman and Society Book of the Month, and editor or co-editor of Russia, Ukraine and Contemporary Imperialism, a special issue of International Critical Thought (2016), Theoretical Engagements in Geopolitical Economy (2015), Analytical Gains from Geopolitical Economy (2015), Revitalizing Marxist Theory for Today’s Capitalism (2010) and Developmental and Cultural Nationalisms (2009). She is also the author of numerous articles in Economic and Political Weekly, International Critical Thought, New Left Review, Third World Quarterly, World Review of Political Economy and other journals and in edited collections on parties, political economy, culture and nationalism. With Alan Freeman, she co-edits the Geopolitical Economy book series with Manchester University Press and the Future of Capitalism book series with Pluto Press. She serves on the Editorial Boards of many journals including Canadian Political Science Review, Critique of Political Economy, E-Social Sciences, Pacific Affairs, Global Faultlines, Research in Political Economy, Revista de Economía Crítica, World Review of Political Economy and International Critical Thought   I.G. @TheGambian Twitter: @MomodouTaal @CTayJ

Borders are not just lines on a map. Listen in as Harsha Walia, Deej and I discuss bordering regimes   Harsha Walia is a Canadian activist and writer based in Vancouver, British Columbia. She has been involved with No one is illegal, the February 14 Women's Memorial March Committee, the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre, and several Downtown Eastside housing justice coalitions.[2][3] Walia has been active in migrant justice, Indigenous solidarity, feminist, anti-racist, and anti-capitalist movements for over a decade.[4] Walia is the author of Undoing Border Imperialism (2013) and Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism (2021), co-author of Never Home: Legislating Discrimination in Canadian Immigration (2015), and Red Women Rising: Indigenous Women Survivors in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (2019).[9] She has also contributed to over thirty academic journals, anthologies, magazines, and newspapers.[4] She is a frequent guest speaker at campuses and conferences across North America.[10]   I.G. @TheGambian Twitter: @MomodouTaal @FanonIsCanon

Musa Springer joined me for an introduction to Walter Rodney.   Musa Springer is a cultural worker and community organizer, host of the Grounding podcast, and a volunteer with the Walter Rodney Foundation.   I.G. @TheGambian @Paranoid_Alive Twitter: @MomodouTaal @HalfAtlanta

In this episode, we discuss what are the some of questions the African intellectual should be considering in our current moment.   Grovogui is a professor at Cornell university of international relations theory and law.   I.G. @TheGambian Twitter: @MomodouTaal @FanonIsCanon

In this episode, I discuss with Shaykh Khaled Abou El Fadl about his current activities and how we can re-engage Islam in our time.   Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl is one of the world’s leading authorities on Shari'ah, Islamic law and Islam, and a prominent scholar in the field of human rights. He is the Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Distinguished Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law where he teaches International Human Rights; Islamic Jurisprudence; Political Asylum and Refugee Law; The Trafficking of Human Beings: Law and Policy; Political Crimes and Legal Systems; and Muslims, Race and Law. He was also formerly the Chair of the Islamic Studies Interdepartmental Program at UCLA. He is the founder of the Institute of Advanced Usuli Studies ("The Usuli Institute"), a non-profit educational institute dedicated to ethics, beauty and critical thinking in the Islamic intellectual tradition.   If you wish to support the Shaykh's work: www.LaunchGood.com/projectilluminesirah   I.G. @TheGambian   Twitter: @MomodouTaal  

In this episode, we discuss Dr. Joy James' latest publication: In pursuit of revolutionary love with.    I.G. @TheGambian   Twitter: @MomodouTaal @FanonIsCanon

A crossover episode discussing the Balkans from a decolonial perspective.    Piro Rexhepi is a researcher based in London. He holds a PhD in politics and writes about borders, racism, religion, and sexuality. He is the author of “White Enclosures Racial Capitalism and Coloniality along the Balkan Route.” It was published by Duke University Press in December 2022 and is discussed in today’s episode.   Adem Ferizaj is a PhD student at the Centre for Gender Studies at SOAS University of London. His dissertation is an epistemological study of the roles of Muslim-majority populations from the Balkans in the global hierarchies of whiteness. He has previously worked as a graduate teaching assistant at SOAS.   @ademfer @Pirorexhepi

In this episode, we speak to Dr. Alison Phipps regarding some of the challenges for feminism in our current moment.   Alison Phipps is a UK-based scholar, writer, and teacher working in the area of gender, with a specific focus on sexual violence. She is currently a Professor of Sociology at Newcastle University. Her most recent book is called Me, Not You: the trouble with mainstream feminism and is published by Manchester University Press.   I.G. @TheGambian   Twitter: @MomodouTaal @Too_Black_ @FanonIsCanon

We spoke to Ashok Kumar around the themes in his book “Monopsony Capitalism”   Ashok Kumar is a Senior Lecturer of Political Economy Birkbeck University.  His most recent book Monopsony Capitalism: Power and Production in the Twilight of the Sweatshop Age (Cambridge University Press) was the winner of the American Sociological Association's 2021 Paul Sweezy Outstanding Book Prize and the 2022 Immanuel Wallerstein Memorial Book Award. The book demonstrates that the production process under global capitalism is governed by a universal logic that shapes the structural bargaining power of workers. He’s a member of the editorial collective of the journal Historical Materialism.   Twitter:   @broseph_stalin @momodoutaal @ctayj   Instagram:   TheGambian Broseph_stalingram Ctayj 

In this episode we discuss why Marxism in our current moment has a new lease on life?   Stephan Hammel’s work is focused on developing a historical materialist framework for the study of music. His research encompasses the history of Marxist approaches to the subject—both “Western” and “Eastern” variants—as well as the role of music in the communist movement. In addition, he harbors an interest in musical modernism in Latin America, especially as it relates to Left politics. Both agitator and educator, he frequently gives talks on political education. He has delivered papers at Left Forum, Historical Materialism, the American Society for Aesthetics, and the American Musicological Society.   I.G. @TheGambian @CtayJ   Twitter: @MomodouTaal @Ctayj