Why Microfinance Failed in The Global South

We speak with Ahilan Kadirgamar about microfinance. Ahilan Kadirgamar is a member of the Collective for Economic Democratisation. He is also Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka. He served on the Central Bank of Sri Lanka appointed committee to draft the Economic Development Framework for a Northern Province Master Plan (August 2018).

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On Cinema, Literature and Neoliberalism in Tunisia and Morocco

We speak with Mohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed about art and political economy. Mohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed is a PhD candidate in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies and the Institute of Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. He works on modern Arabic literature and thought with a focus on literary engagement with postcolonial transformations in the political economy of the region, and interactions with pre-modern Islamic concepts of time such as those found in philosophical Sufism to negotiate these transformations. His work has appeared in such journals as Middle East Critique, Arab Studies Journal, and the Journal of North African Studies (forthcoming).

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On Marine Le Pen and Performing Gender

We talk with Dorit Geva about the far-right in France. Dorit Geva is a political sociologist and Dean of Undergraduate Studies at Central European University, where she is overseeing CEU’s new BA programs in Vienna. Since 2013 she has been studying the populist radical-right in Europe. She has also written on the gender politics of military service, including her book, Conscription, Family, and the Modern State: A Comparative Study of France and the United States (2013).

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On Decolonization and Art

We speak with Greer Valley about why decolonization needs to be more than a metaphor. Greer Valley is a South African visual artist. You can find her work here.

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