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Prof Olufemi Taiwo Interrupts Decolonisation Theory in a New Book

Posted By: adminon: July 06, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Cornell University, Decolonisation, Knowledge – power nexus, NIGERIANo CommentsViews:

It is a 2022 publication. But currency is not the only unique selling point of Professor Olufemi Taiwo’s Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously. A book questioning the empow... Read more

A Review of Prof Anthony Asiwaju’s New Book, ‘Bridging African Boundaries’

Posted By: adminon: July 05, 2022In: BookspaceTags: African integration, British, Colonialism, Father of African Border Studies, FrenchNo CommentsViews:

Ahead of Thursday, July 7th, 2022 public presentation, Dr Chris M A Kwaja attempts to capture the soul of Prof Anthony Asiwaju’s newest book, Bridging African Boundaries: Cross-Border... Read more

Academic’s In-depth Account of Marikana Massacre Marred by Curious Omissions

Posted By: adminon: May 22, 2022In: BookspaceTags: AMCU, Lonmin, Marikana, NUMNo CommentsViews:

Intervention serves a contentious review sourced from Johannesburg based Daily Maverick whose preface to the review is: In Marikana: A People’s History, Julian Brown, a political studies pro... Read more

Unpacking a Monarch’s Riddle of the Oil Thief

Posted By: adminon: May 07, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Activist Wokolo, Bayelsa State, IOCs, IYC, OILNo CommentsViews:

TITLE: The Riddle of the Oil Thief AUTHOR: HRM, King Bubaraye Dakolo PUBLISHER: Purple Shelves Publishers YEAR: 2021 PAGES: 528 REVIEWER: Chijioke Uwasomba Oil, the greasy fluid has become a... Read more

Anticipating Odia Ofeimum’s New Book on Nigerian Democracy

Posted By: adminon: May 02, 2022In: BookspaceTags: 'linguistic turn', Logocentrism, Nigerian Democracy, Political Science, The EconomistNo CommentsViews:

Intervention has not read this book yet but Intervention has received the cover page. The assumption here is that a book on The Challenges and Prospects of Nigerian Democracy from Odia Ofeim... Read more

Who Actually Reads What and Why?

Posted By: adminon: April 30, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Epistemology, Executive Summary, New York Times, Philosophy of (Social) Science, UNRISDNo CommentsViews:

Let us begin this exercise by citing the readership details of a few, selected texts in Intervention before we get down to the argument we want to push. On January 3rd, 2019, Intervention pu... Read more

Flashing Back to the ‘Dialectic of Enlightenment’

Posted By: adminon: April 29, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Adorno, Fascism, Frankfurt scholars, Horkheimer, The Enlightenment, Third ReichNo CommentsViews:

It seems newer and even older perspectives on ‘the trouble with the world’ – classical Marxism, religion, Constructivism/Deconstruction, Huntington and numerous middle-level theories – have... Read more

Are you Better off Alone or Otherwise?

Posted By: adminon: April 27, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Avoidants, Singlehood, Singlehood research, Therapy, University of California – San Francisco, University of TorontoNo CommentsViews:

Originally titled Forever alone… and thriving?, this piece starts by asking: Why are some happier flying solo while others want a romantic partner? Are some people truly better off alo... Read more

Has Neoliberalism Really Come to an End?

Posted By: adminon: April 16, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Bernie Sanders, CHINA, Classical libealism, Cold War, Collapse of Communism, Globalisation, IT Revolution, New Left, Soviet UnionNo CommentsViews:

Neoliberalism can be so complicated as for many to conclude that only French Philosopher, Michel Foucault and British Marxist Geographer and foremost theorist of concept, David Harvey, under... Read more

Updated: Building on NPSA’s Recent Maneuver in the Methodological Battlespace

Posted By: adminon: April 16, 2022In: BookspaceTags: ASUU, Atiku Abubakar Foundation, Dangote, Elumelu Foundation, Interpretivism, MacArthur Foundation, Michel Foucault, NPSA, Postpositivism, Rationalism, TY Danjuma FoundationNo CommentsViews:

This is republished in strict obedience to the DIRECTIVE to make this more easily readable and more understandable by all. It was thought to be understandable by nearly all. Some senior read... Read more