Publication: “A Postcolonial Schmitt? Ontology, ethnography, and “more-than-liberal” democracy”
In the shadow of debates about illiberalism stands – as éminence grise – Carl Schmitt. Schmitt’s ontology of the political…
Publication: “Against failed states: the constitutional consequences of fiscal earmarking, underspending and remobilisation”
Drawing on the case of cesses in Indian tax history and practice, Deval Desai takes underspending not only as symptomatic…
Two publications on Post-Comparative Philosophy
Ralph Weber, Co-PI of the Reversing the Gaze project, and Lerato Posholi, project member, have contributed to the special feature…
Publication: “African Studies, or How to Make the Canon Apocryphal”
In his essay in the edited volume ” Knowing – Unknowing. African Studies at the Crossroads”, project PI Elísio Macamo…
International conference at the University of Basel (12-13 Sept 2024): “Reversing the Gaze: Concepts without borders”
On 12 and 13 September, 45 international scholars met at the University of Basel to explore approaches of ‘reversing the…
Reversing the Gaze international conference, 12-13 Sep 2024 – registration is open
Our two-day conference brings together reflections on the use of concepts across borders in social sciences. In six panel sessions,…
Publication: “Recasting Welfare Politics in India at the Time of COVID-19”
Project member Christine Lutringer’s recent book chapter explores state-society relations and subnational responses to the COVID-19 crisis in India. By…
Call for papers: “Reversing the Gaze: Using Concepts Across Borders”
The use of concepts deemed ‘Eurocentric’ in analyzing the global South is heavily criticized within the context of postcolonial and…
Best Paper Prize (runner up) for Deval Desai
The Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) awarded RtG project member Deval Desai the Best Paper Prize (runner up) for his…
Publication: “Expert Ignorance”
This recent book by project member Deval Desai explores the concept of ‘expert ignorance’, whereby ideas about the ‘rule of…
University of Basel ‘In Focus’ Portrait: Lerato Posholi
Project member Lerato Posholi spoke to the University of Basel about her postdoc and the broader Reversing the Gaze project.…
Workshop: ‘Decolonising Political Theologies’ in Conversation with James Sidaway (Zurich, 26 May 2023)
Convened by Benedikt Korf, Department of Geography, University of Zurich, with James Sidaway, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore…
Lerato Posholi and Ralph Weber participate in workshop at the University of Johannesburg
“Epistemic Injustice and Epistemic Decolonisation” was the topic of a workshop organised by the African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy…
Research Colloquium, Spring Semester 2023: “Beyond Area Studies”
In this semester, the colloquium will focus on current debates in and critics of Area Studies and the various attempts…
Workshop: “The Cultural Life of Democracy” (Zurich, 3-4 Nov 2022)
Convened by Harshana Rambukwella and Benedikt Korf, Department of Geography, University of Zurich Date: 3 & 4 November 2022Venue: Völkerkundemuseum,…
Workshop: “Decoloniality and the Politics of the Urban” (hybrid, 27 Oct 2022)
The Geneva Graduate Institute, the Reversing the Gaze Project and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) invite…
Research Colloquium, Fall Semester 2022: “Concepts without borders”
In this semester, the colloquium will discuss the changes socio-scientific analytical concepts undergo to be able to render phenomena intelligible…
Workshop: “Researching the (un)familiar” (Basel, 17 Oct 2022)
Workshop in the framework of the sub-project When there are Strangers in Our Midst. Citizenship, Migration and Re-tribalisation in Switzerland…
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