This is a prologue to the Spanish translation of Joanna Zylinska’s The End of Man. A Feminist Counter-Apocalypse (2019).

Entrada sobre Eurocentrismo en el Diccionario de Injusticias editado por Carlos Pereda. // Dictionary Entry on Eurocentrism (in Spanish), my contribution to the Diccionario de Injusticias (A Dictionary of Injustices) edited by Carlos Pereda

Introduction to the poetry of Mohammad Zaman.

इस पुस्तिका में बिहार की कोसी नदी में वर्ष 2008 में आई प्रलयंकारी बाढ़ का आंखों देखा वर्णन है। बाढ़ में हजारों लोग मारे गए थे, लेकिन बिहार में सत्ता पर काबिज पार्टी ने इस त्रासदी काे एक जाति विशेष को सबक सिखाने के अवसर के रूप में लिया था। इसका तथ्यात्मक ब्यौरा इसमें है। साथ ही इसमें बेघर हुए लोगों की मर्मांतक पीड़ा का भी चित्रण है।…[Read more]

जाति और पितृसत्ता ई. वी. रामासामी नायकर के चिंतन, लेखन और संघर्षों की केंद्रीय धुरी रही है। उनकी दृढ़ मान्यता थी कि इन दोनों के विनाश के बिना किसी आधुनिक समाज का निर्माण नहीं किया जा सकता है।
जाति और पितृसत्ता के संबंध में पेरियार क्या सोचते थे और क्यों वे इसके विनाश को आधुनिक भारत के निर्माण के लिए अपरिहार्य एवं अनिवार्य मानते थे? इन प्रश्नों…[Read more]

This essay focuses on territorial conflicts between European masonic bodies outside Europe, and on the impact of these conflicts on inner-European masonic relations. The period between c. 1870 and c. 1930 marks the height of the European expansion respectively the age of ‘high imperialism’. It also marks the first wave of decolonization. The tid…[Read more]

How did (Western) European freemasonries on a transnational level came to terms with the idea of a closer union of the European peoples? Concepts of “Europe” and “Europeanness” were the background music of the formation of masonic pan-European networks, building on transnational encounters either by individual freemasons (in the Universala Framaso…[Read more]

Any memorials, monuments, historic sites, and other public facilities commemorate, celebrate and generally remind us about the landscape of the Cowpastures. In recent decades there has been a nostalgia turn in recovering the memory of the Cowpastures landscape. This is cast in terms of the pioneers and the legacy of the European settlement.
Some…[Read more]

One of the first directors of the Sydney Railway Company was colonial identity Thomas Barker who established Maryland at Bringelly in the 1850s. He developed the farm Maryland as a Sydney gentleman’s retreat and starting building his hilltop homestead in 1854. Barker was a successful Sydney businessman and philanthropist who was one of the…[Read more]

The establishment of Camden in 1840 was a private venture of James and William Macarthur, sons of colonial patriarch John Macarthur, at the Nepean River crossing on the northern edge of the family’s pastoral property of Camden Park. The town’s site was enclosed on three sides by a sweeping bend in the Nepean River and has regularly flooded the…[Read more]

This article analyses the connections between the worlds of fine art and fashion through the complex interconnections between the Parisian-Eastern European creative exile. It follows the common threads between Ukrainian-Jewish artist and fashion designer Sonia Delaunay (1885–1979) and prominent inter-war Parisian Romanians: namely, Tristan T…[Read more]

This article analyses the connections between the worlds of fine art and fashion through the complex interconnections between the Parisian-Eastern European creative exile. It follows the common threads between Ukrainian-Jewish artist and fashion designer Sonia Delaunay (1885–1979) and prominent inter-war Parisian Romanians: namely, Tristan T…[Read more]

The Cowpastures was a vague area south of the Nepean River floodplain on the southern edge of Sydney’s Cumberland Plain. The Dharawal Indigenous people who managed the area were sidelined in 1796 by Europeans when Governor Hunter named the ‘Cow Pasture Plains’ in his sketch map. He had visited the area the previous year to witness the escaped…[Read more]

This article demonstrates the interplay between national, international and transatlantic dimensions within fraternalism. From the late nineteenth century, masonic lodges took part in the broader push towards the formation of transnational organisations and institutions. They were mainly based in western and southwestern Europe. However,…[Read more]

A hugely prolific and popular writer, Jodi Picoult boasts nearly 30 novels in print worldwide. She has been translated into 34 languages and, in 2018, she was ranked in the “top ten” of Princeton’s most influential living alumni. Yet her name rarely features in the short lists for prestigious literary awards and she is consistently ignored by ac…[Read more]

This paper explores interpretations of the Japanese parliament by governmental actors in the Qing empire, most importantly the commissioners for constitutional research Li Jiaju 李家駒 (1871–1938) and Dashou 達壽 (1870–1939). It shows that, within a theoretical framework formed in dialogue with their Japanese constitutionalist colleagues, these actors…[Read more]

Circular Quay was one of the first points of contact between First Nations people and Europeans, and to this day, it is one of the busiest localities on Sydney Harbour. The quay’s history is rich as it is still a busy transport hub, government administration area and commercial zone. In more recent decades, it’s expanded to include thriving…[Read more]

Taxes and dying. Two certainties in life, and that was certainly the case in colonial Sydney. For more than 150 years Customs House has provided the means of collecting taxes on the movement of goods