School of Social and Political Science

Description

Based on a recent publication in South Atlantic Quarterly, in this seminar, I will reflect on how contemporary left internationalism could think through—and beyond—both “humanity” and “nation” when positioning its struggles. With this aim, I first turn to philosophy and then to history to distinguish unsettled questions that animate dilemmas of left internationalism today. The seminar is not, in a straightforward way, an attempt to draw the boundaries, offer the definitions, and determine the strategies of left internationalism. Ultimately, it is an invitation to a partisan “we” who claims sides beyond humanity and nation. This “we” is an open question and permanent problem of left internationalism.

This lecture is co-organised with Critique.