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WHEN LAW IS NOT JUSTICE

Rule of law may be good for business, but in many parts of the world it’s not enough to ensure basic rights.

Who actually gets to speak on behalf of the globally oppressed? The importance of language and the capacity to speak for oneself has been a central concern for the post-colonial theorist and activist, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Such concerns expose the operations of power at the level of discourse and how they become integral to how we come to understand the normalization of oppression and the denial of rights “within” normative, progressive, and legal frameworks. Recognizing the limits of legalistic and developmental approaches to human rights, this conversation covers a range of issues from the violence of poverty, the problem of law, and the legacy of Frantz Fanon to the ways the imperialism of canonical thinkers such as Immanuel Kant might be affirmatively sabotaged. This provides a new opening into the meaning of revolution and how it might be detached from the violent dialectics of history.

Brad Evans interviews Gayatri Chakrvorty Spivak

July 13, 2016

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is a university professor in the humanities at Columbia University, New York. Her books include Nationalism and the Imagination and An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization.