Tuesday, 6 June 2023
Raj Patel is an award-winning author, filmmaker and academic. He is a research professor in the Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin, in the United States and a senior research associate at the Unit for the Humanities at Rhodes University (Uhuru) in Makhanda.
A new collection of essays uses the works of the psychiatrist and radical political philosopher to explore how a community’s language and capacity for thought and wit threaten the state.
The Global South will suffer most as colonial legacies, climate change and capitalism continue to plunge millions of people into hunger.
They are fighting in a global war over the future of agriculture and Prime Minister Narendra Modi is choking the debate.
Gurinder Chadha’s film about the influence of Springsteen’s music on working-class immigrant teenagers in England during the 1980s depression is a flawed crowd-pleaser that still contains diamonds.
The food system in South Africa is rotten. In under five days, a top executive at Shoprite will earn more than a temporary farm worker on an average vineyard will earn in their entire working life.