Join us for our virtual monthly reading group!
This virtual reading group will be led by Dr. Abeera Khan. Fascism, in the current conjuncture, arrives through liberal policy and procedure. This reading group engages with feminist, post and de-colonial and Marxist critiques of liberalism and appraisals of fascism to question the notion of fascism as a ‘rupture’ from the liberal social order. Together, we will attend to liberalism’s imperial history and its innate racial and gendered exclusions to understand why liberalism is not fascism's rival but its prefiguration.
Texts will include The Intimacies of Four Continents by Lisa Lowe and Liberalism as Fascism’s Prefiguration by Abeera Khan.
PDFs of the readings will be provided and a Google Meet link will be sent to all those who sign-up ahead of the event. Please note that timings are in British Summer Time.
Tickets are Pay What You Can; all proceeds will help us continue funding the work we do.
Schedule (BST)
4.00pm - Intro
4.10pm - Group reading + Discussion
5.00pm - BREAK
5.10pm - Group reading + Discussion
5.50pm - Final reflections
6.00pm - Close
This event is part of our monthly reading series. Through mid-month gatherings we collectively read and study decolonial ideas and history, building community along the way. Each month we will explore pressing questions from a decolonial lens, offering space to think critically about the challenge of dismantling the enduring legacies of colonialism today.
Dr. Abeera Khan’s scholarship and pedagogy focus on empire's mobilisations of gender and sexuality and the queer, feminist movements that emerge in confrontation and response. She has published in, among other outlets, The Hythe, The Contrapuntal, Feminist Review, and Feminist Formations, and co-edited ‘Abolitions: Writing Against Abandonment’, a special issue of Wasafiri. She is a Lecturer in Gender and Sexuality at SOAS, University of London.
The Decolonial Centre is a political education platform committed to spreading anti-colonial and decolonial perspectives on history, social theory, and current affairs. We deliver our work via our Newscast episodes, Decolonial Encycopaedia, and community events. By fostering solidarity and collaboration, we aim to amplify the powerful movements at the forefront of challenging and dismantling the enduring legacies of colonialism today. Our vision is to help inspire a new intergenerational cohort of activists that pushes for systems change and create links between communities in struggle.
(Header art: Kyuyo Ishikawa, After the 9.11 Incident I, 2004)