By supporting NGOs, is the left suppressing a radical politics in Haiti and elsewhere?

Was modernism complicit with colonialism, and did the struggle for decolonisation also entail the targeting of imperial modernist architecture? Mark Crinson visits the exhibition In the Desert of Modernity to see if the charge will stick

Contemporary curators are loving the alien, the sacred and the cultic. But far from challenging contemporary social mores, this Other-worship is just an orthodox postmodern denigration of human agency, argues J.J. Charlesworth

Is Indianness just a German ideology? In the first of a two-part analysis of neoliberalism in the subcontinent, Neil Gray traces the history of Hindu cultural nationalism, from a colonialist mystique of pure spirituality to today's fascist pogroms and economic polarisation

The notion of the 'failed state' is recurrently invoked to justify military and security interventions. Reviewing two books which take so-called failed states in Africa and South America as their object of enquiry, Angela Mitropoulos questions the founding premises of 'successful' national sovereignty

Official 'New Zealand' is a sporty, soporific hell-hole of 'classless' good cheer.  Fortunately successive generations of the Pacific proletariat (see also L.Goldner's Melville book and Fabian Thomsett's review of same on Metamute) refuse to learn that the colonial/class war is over.
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