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Can We Be Modern and Rooted at the Same Time?
Modernity is impatient. It likes to rip things apart. With its relentless innovation and an insatiable lust for the future, it dismantles ways of living before they even emerge properly. To be modern is to be disruptive, which automatically puts every new generation at odds with the traditions of the previous ones. Walter Benjamin, a…
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How to Decolonize Academia: A Brief, Blunt Guide
The term “decolonization” has gained traction in recent years. Especially in academia, you cannot spend a day without encountering people talking about the “need to decolonize” in papers, conferences, textbooks, lectures, and social media. Despite this incessant droning, when you look at how universities and institutions actually function, decolonization seems more like a lifestyle, a…
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What is a Family? Psychology, Attachment, and Marriage Equality
Recently, the Indian government opposed the queer community’s demand for the legal recognition of same-sex marriages in the Supreme Court. According to the government in power, families only consist of a biological female, a biological male, and the children born out of their “union” (I am assuming they are referring to sex here ). The…