- A term that commonly refers to persons who are socially, politically and geographically outside of the hegemonic power structure. openDemocracy’s Discourses exhibition and discussion series is ...

When Siddharth Sahu was in college, he started taking an interest in the Dalits, a community he belonged to. As a student of history, he was keen on understanding not just the community’s origins, but ...

In the most widespread series of demonstrations in Iran against structural poverty, rampant corruption, and political tyranny in almost a decade, mostly poor, underemployed, and unemployed Iranians ...

In October of 1957—when many of the graduates attending their 50th reunion this week were beginning their senior year of college—the Faculty Committee on Regional Studies at Harvard established the ...

- A term that commonly refers to persons who are socially, politically and geographically outside of the hegemonic power structure. Who are the subaltern? Do they have the ability to politically and ...

When I joined publishing exactly twenty years ago, almost the first manuscript I was asked to handle was the second volume of a now internationally famous history series called Subaltern Studies.

Having been brought up in a family with one part of it having British ancestry (my father’s), I developed a fondness for English football (the child in me), very difficult to banish later on in years ...

Since the mid-1980s, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has split much of her working time between Columbia University—where she holds the post of University Professor in the Humanities—and a cluster of ...