Pal Ahluwalia
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 322310 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Pal Ahluwalia |
| NOMBRES | Pal |
| APELLIDO | Ahluwalia |
| FIRMA | AHLUWALIA P |
| AFILIACIONES | University of South Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2323-3822 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 121 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 183 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 120 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1993 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Kenya’s 2027 elections
Ebola is not only Africa’s problem
What Is To Be Done
The 2026 Ugandan elections
Rethinking Diaspora in the age of globalisation
Anti-government protests in Kenya
Kenya is often seen as a country where democracy has prevailed despite long periods of one-party state domination. Nevertheless, just below the surface are tensions that equally suggest that the st
Donald Trump and Africa 2.0
In a 2017 editorial for African Identities, I wrote about what the election of Donald Trump meant for Africa. A characteristic of the last Trump presidency was his almost total disinterest in the c
A Farewell
The White House and higher education
The ongoing crisis facing US Research-One universities, based on a combination of the Federal Government’s funding power, laws, and their interpretation, is a telling reminder of the risks when uti
Making America laughable again
There is a powerful prevailing myth in the United States that Ronald Reagan restored its importance in the world. Yet he is ranked well below Barack Hussein Obama II and Jimmy Carter by the US popu
Trump has made America laughable again - and dangerous for its residents
The digital humanities. Really
We live and work in the Global South, Pal as President of a federated university system in the Pacific, Toby at a technological school in the Americas. We are both a long way from European and US h
African democracy withering
During the 2020 Presidential elections in the United States of America, President Donald Trump established a precedent by claiming that the election was fraudulent and that he did not accept the re
Can we afford sporting mega-events
The Paris summer Olympics and Paralympics just concluded as we wrote this editorial. They attracted worldwide attention. For sports lay powerful claims to incarnate nature, visible in person or on
Football and identity
Association football is more popular than Jesus and John Lennon combined. The UN has declared May 25 ‘World Football Day.’1 Half the globe’s population watched the 2010 men’s World Cup on televisio
Activism 2025
From Los Angeles to London, people introduce themselves as ‘activists’. We’re often puzzled by this. Their means of financial support and socio-cultural theories and practices are left undisclosed
The America's cup - learning by strolling
In the first eight months of 2024, over 64 million people visited Spain, a record, as were the 10.9 million in August alone (Instituto Nacional de Estadística, 2024). The tourism industry is worth
The October anniversary
This October is the anniversary of Tlatelolco. What was it, how did it come about, and what does it signify today?In the Global North’s history of the 1968 Mexico Olympic Games, major attention is
Nations and nationalism
Technology ideology
The next big thing - artificial intelligence
The growth of area studies in China
The voice referendum
On October 14 2023, Australians will head to the polls in what has been dubbed a once in a generation referendum to redress the past and recognise the original inhabitants of Australia. In June thi
Petrostates and power
Twenty years of African Identities
Politics and Post-colonial Theory
Taking post-colonial theory out of its literary confines and extending it in order to understand the complexities and dynamics of post-colonial African politics, this text shows how Africans transform and inflect their inherited institutions
Out of Africa
1. Introduction 2. Algeria and Colonisation 3. Sartre, Camus and Fanon 4. Derrida 5. Cixous 6. Althusser, Bourdieu, Foucault and Lyotard 7. Conclusion
Political Correctness’
In Australia there has been a great deal of discussion in recent years of something called ‘political correctness’. This term is an insidious phrase applied to academic humanists, who, it is frequently said, do not think independently but rather according to norms established by a cabal of ‘correct‐thinking’ leftists. These norms are supposed to be overly sensitive to racism, sexism and the like, instead of allowing people to debate in what is su…
Negotiating Identity
This paper examines the overwhelming desire of transnational adoptees to establish a connection with their origins in order to both come to terms with the past and develop an understanding of their identity. It considers the ethical ramifications of the commodification of human bodies. It is suggested that the idea of displacement is most helpful in approaching questions of transnational adoption. In this way, we can look at transnational adoptio…
Fanon's Nausea
(2003). Fanon's Nausea: The Hegemony of the White Nation. Social Identities: Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 341-356
Australia's Ambivalent Re-imagining of Asia
This article argues that 'Asia' has tended to function as an ambivalent 'sign' in Australian political discourse, signifying both fear and hope. That ambivalence is reflected in Australian government policy. The article focuses on the period from Gough Whitlam on, tracing the links between debates over Australian relations with Asia and key issues in Australian domestic politics, including debates over immigration, the economy and Australian nati…
Post-structuralism's colonial roots
Post-colonial theory is many different things to many different people. It serves many different purposes. It is drawn from the unique conditions which its adherents inhabit and from the unique experiences upon which they draw. For many commentators, Michel Foucault is at the heart of post-colonial thinking or, at the very least, his work contributes the embedding of the post-structural in the post-colonial. But there is an alternative reading, a…
Frantz Fanon and Steve Biko
(2001). Frantz Fanon and Steve Biko: Towards Liberation. Social Identities: Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 455-469
Between black and white
Nations and nationalism
Precarious and model minorities
In many parts of the world, Sikhs have come to be perceived as a ‘model' minority – so much so that some have critiqued the Sikh community for taking up positions that are perceived as assimilationist. Such critiques, however, gloss over the sense of precarity, and the litany of hardships, racial discrimination and legal battles in which Sikhs have been forced to be engage in a post-9/11 world. Ultimately, this discrimination is enabled and justi…
Introduction
The Struggle for African Identity
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Transforming Culture
(2002). Transforming Culture: Street Life in an Apartheid City. Social Identities: Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 393-430
Towards (Re)Conciliation
Everyone knows that a place exists which is not economically or politically indebted to all the vileness and compromise.That is not obliged to reproduce the system.That is writing.If there is a somewhere else that can escape the infernal repetition, it lies in that direction, where it writes itself, where it dreams, where it invents new worlds
Celebrity activism
The Rohingya crisis
The condition of exile, Edward Said told us, was very much like the ‘mind of winter’ – wonderful and powerful imagery that was deeply resonant with Said's own conception of the celebrated status of the exile in the Western society. After all, Said himself was a celebrated exile, albeit that as a Palestinian his status as an exile was deeply contested, unlike exiles who had fled fascism and communism. Inevitably, Said was drawn to the work of exil…
Greenwashing social identity
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The cognitariat
At Home in Motion
This paper was first delivered as the keynote address at the ‘Transnational Punjabis in the 21st Century: Beginnings, Junctures and Responses’ Conference held in May 2011 at the University of the Fraser Valley, Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada. It argues that there are two dimensions to evolving Sikh diasporic identities that are firmly anchored in being at home whilst in motion. These two dimensions are rooted in culture and dharam. The ways…
Afterlives of post-colonialism
The world of Antiquity and Middle Ages was replete with monsters and satyrs. Modernity and civilisation is shadowed by monstrous figures that constitute ‘the abject’ and ‘discontent’. This paper examines the question of representation and the manner in which the figure of the monster reappears after the events of 9/11. It discusses the way production about the other has been disciplined and policed and offers some reflections on theory in order t…
Race
The concept of race is traced to the quest for the origins of language and the manner in which that led to the idea that a separate language indicated a separate racial origin. The Orientalist desire to know and dominate the other and to regard him or her as sub-human necessitated the invention of race. The notion of race is further traced through the slave trade and its contemporary usage in 'race studies
Making America laughable again
There is a powerful prevailing myth in the United States that Ronald Reagan restored its importance in the world. Yet he is ranked well below Barack Hussein Obama II and Jimmy Carter by the US popu
Can we afford sporting mega-events
The Paris summer Olympics and Paralympics just concluded as we wrote this editorial. They attracted worldwide attention. For sports lay powerful claims to incarnate nature, visible in person or on
Democratic transition in African politics
The splintered, struggling Africa of today cannot afford the luxury of multiple parties, independent presses and honest debate. In countries where national goals are not clearly defined, such freedoms enable the various factions to fight for self‐interest at the expense of majority concerns. National institutions are not strong enough to withstand these pressures, and governments are not cohesive enough to endure forces motivated by anything less…
Clash of civilisations — or Balderdash of scholars
Specificities
(1997). Specificities: The Rwandan Genocide: Exile and Nationalism Reconsidered. Social Identities: Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 499-519
Political Correctness’
In Australia there has been a great deal of discussion in recent years of something called ‘political correctness’. This term is an insidious phrase applied to academic humanists, who, it is frequently said, do not think independently but rather according to norms established by a cabal of ‘correct‐thinking’ leftists. These norms are supposed to be overly sensitive to racism, sexism and the like, instead of allowing people to debate in what is su…
Specificities
on Drug Abuse (NIDA).The Group Drug Counseling (GDC) model that serves as the basis of this manual was
Edward Said
Edward Said is perhaps best known as the author of Orientalism, a book which changed the face of critical theory and shaped the emerging field of post-colonial studies.This volume explains Said's key ideas, their contexts and impact, with reference to both his scholarship and journalism. These ideas include:* the place of text and critic in the world* knowledge, power and the construction of the 'Other'* the links between culture and imperialism.…
Towards (Re)Conciliation
Everyone knows that a place exists which is not economically or politically indebted to all the vileness and compromise.That is not obliged to reproduce the system.That is writing.If there is a somewhere else that can escape the infernal repetition, it lies in that direction, where it writes itself, where it dreams, where it invents new worlds
When Does a Settler Become a Native? Citizenship and Identity in a Settler Society
Principles of Drug Addiction Treatment: A Research-Based Guide (Third Edition)The U.S. Government does not endorse or favor any specific commercial product or
Politics and Post-colonial Theory
Taking post-colonial theory out of its literary confines and extending it in order to understand the complexities and dynamics of post-colonial African politics, this text shows how Africans transform and inflect their inherited institutions
Frantz Fanon and Steve Biko
(2001). Frantz Fanon and Steve Biko: Towards Liberation. Social Identities: Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 455-469
The Struggle for African Identity
This paper examines South African President Thabo Mbeki's notion of the African Renaissance. Representations of Africa have been challenged in the past by movements such as negritude and pan-Africanism. Thabo Mbeki's proclamation of the African Renaissance can be seen as another attempt to fight and challenge prevailing representations of Africa. An African Renaissance that does not degenerate into essentialism (particularlism) has the potential …
The Struggle for African Identity
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Transforming Culture
(2002). Transforming Culture: Street Life in an Apartheid City. Social Identities: Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 393-430
Between black and white
Introduction
Fanon's Nausea
(2003). Fanon's Nausea: The Hegemony of the White Nation. Social Identities: Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 341-356
Empire or Imperialism
Globalisation raises questions about the capacity of the nation-state to function within the national interest. Hardt and Negri argue that nation-state sovereignty is in decline and that Empire -- a new supranational and deterritorialising form of sovereignty -- has superseded it. The question then arises, where does sovereignty reside if it is no longer existent within the nation-state. It is here that post-colonial theory may well provide insig…
Delivering Freedom
The ‘war on terror’ and its Iraqi front were said to be inextricably linked to the prevalence of weapons of mass destruction. In the absence of such weapons, the war has been justified increasingly on moral grounds – as part of delivering freedom and the ‘Democracy Project’. These tropes are reminiscent of colonialism and its massively reinforced notions of the civilizing mission. Imperial nations claimed not only the right but the obligation to …
Inventing Home
This paper examines how identity is constructed and given meaning, especially for diasporic subjects. It focuses on a recent documentary film My Mother India by the Sikh-Australian, Safina Uberoi, whose work is a powerful mechanism to interpolate questions that are germane to considerations of identity, trauma and memory that have been characteristic of the Sikh condition. Safina Uberoi's film makes one confront civil violence through a personal …
Race
The concept of race is traced to the quest for the origins of language and the manner in which that led to the idea that a separate language indicated a separate racial origin. The Orientalist desire to know and dominate the other and to regard him or her as sub-human necessitated the invention of race. The notion of race is further traced through the slave trade and its contemporary usage in 'race studies
Negotiating Identity
This paper examines the overwhelming desire of transnational adoptees to establish a connection with their origins in order to both come to terms with the past and develop an understanding of their identity. It considers the ethical ramifications of the commodification of human bodies. It is suggested that the idea of displacement is most helpful in approaching questions of transnational adoption. In this way, we can look at transnational adoptio…
Afterlives of post-colonialism
The world of Antiquity and Middle Ages was replete with monsters and satyrs. Modernity and civilisation is shadowed by monstrous figures that constitute ‘the abject’ and ‘discontent’. This paper examines the question of representation and the manner in which the figure of the monster reappears after the events of 9/11. It discusses the way production about the other has been disciplined and policed and offers some reflections on theory in order t…
Origins and Displacement
This paper seeks to understand the effects of Derrida's colonial origin upon his theory and considers, the implications, for his theory, of the suppression of that origin? It examines his Algerian locatedness. It questions the impact of his formative years on his later work and the implications of this for deconstructive theory or Derridean logocentrism. It questions whether his overall project reflects his colonial roots and the tensions which a…
Edward Said
Edward Said is perhaps best known as the author of the landmark study Orientalism, a book which changed the face of critical theory and shaped the emerging field of post-colonial studies, and for his controversial journalism on the Palestinian political situation. Looking at the context and the impact of Said's scholarship and journalism, this book examines Said's key ideas, including: the significance of 'worldliness', 'amateurism', 'secular cri…
Divided labor, multiplied culture
Perhaps the most basic network in modern life is the division of labor. It certainly rates alongside family, school, and town. And that inexorably leads to a discussion of how resources are allocat
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