Professor Homi Bhabha Featured in Newsweek

Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities Homi Bhabha was featured in “The Biggest Reason to Be Optimistic About 2025, According to Philosophers,” published by Newsweek: 

“Movement politics—#MeToo, BLM, Arab Spring, Dilli Chalo [the agricultural workers' agitation in Delhi]—raise my hopes for justice and dignity in the face of polarized and paralyzed national parties.

Movements can be short-lived and organizationally precarious, but they quicken the pulse of political change by engaging with ‘real-time’ emergencies that bring to light long-time deficits in democratic governance.

They are dismissed for their focus on ‘single issues’—immigration, the environment, gender-based discrimination, homelessness, free speech, a free press—but these are the singularly humane interests threatened by ethno-nationalist populisms.

Movement politics is not ‘identity politics’ as woke-mongers will insist; it stands for the politics of human dignity and the aspirational ethics of solidarity.” 

Read the full article here.