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Scattered speculations on the subaltern and the popular

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
- 01 Nov 2005 - 
- Vol. 8, Iss: 4, pp 475-486
TLDR
Subaltern is to popular as gender is to sex, class to poverty, state to nation as mentioned in this paper, and class to nation is to gender as sex is to money, and vice-versa.
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Slumdog Cities: Rethinking Subaltern Urbanism

TL;DR: The article is concerned with a formation of ideas - "subaltern urbanism" - which undertakes the theorization of the megacity and its subaltern spaces and subaltern classes, and highlights emergent analytical strategies that transcend the familiar metonyms of underdevelopment.
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The power to shape policy: charting sport for development and peace policy discourses

TL;DR: In this article, a development policy discourse analysis that was conducted using six key sport for development and peace (SDP) policy documents was conducted by using a theoretical framework combining postcolonial theory and actor-oriented sociology in order to critically analyse SDP policies.
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Democratic encounters? Epistemic privilege, power, and community-based participatory action research

TL;DR: This paper put forth a postcolonial analysis of participatory techniques that sustain academe's epistemic privilege through producing, subordinating and assimilating difference; claiming authenticity and voice; and dislocating collaborative knowledge work from the historical, political, social and embodied conditions in which it unfolds.
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Who Are Intellectuals

TL;DR: The lack of norms for moral values is becoming an increasingly serious issue. as discussed by the authors argues that people in commerce talk about commerce, and those "going out to sea" talk about the sea.
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Terror: A Speech After 9-11

TL;DR: This article argued that there is no response to war and that war is a cruel caricature of what in us can respond, and that one cannot be answerable to war, yet one cannot remain silent.
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Who Are Intellectuals

TL;DR: The lack of norms for moral values is becoming an increasingly serious issue. as discussed by the authors argues that people in commerce talk about commerce, and those "going out to sea" talk about the sea.