The problem in Syria, I think, is that when there is so much violence, there is not only very little chance to create spaces for liberation, but also all talk is quickly swallowed up by it. People are trying to… — Nigel Gibson Copy Share Image
Spaces of liberation are, in a certain way, some kind of social spaces where people can not only get together and think about something… — Nigel Gibson Copy Share Image
The colonial regime makes sure, often with the help of surrogates, that radical leaders and those honest principled intellectuals and activists who refuse to… — Nigel Gibson Copy Share Image
If you look at social movements in Latin America, there are spaces where alternative politics are thought about on the ground, at the grassroots… — Nigel Gibson Copy Share Image
What is interesting about the revolts is that they show that there is never anything purely spontaneous, and there is always some thinking and… — Nigel Gibson Copy Share Image
Fifty years is the long time to think about a thinker's relevance or to think of the relevance of their work to a contemporary… — Nigel Gibson Copy Share Image
For Fanon, becoming actional is connected to his idea of a new humanism, which is explicitly critical of European humanism so intimately connected with… — Nigel Gibson Copy Share Image
There is an arc of spontaneous revolts, beautiful in their creative beginnings, which traverses boundaries and borders and creates new solidarities and imaginations but… — Nigel Gibson Copy Share Image
Violence is used to suppress a people in a most blatantly crude way. We can historicize and contextualize it. We can analyze the Algerian… — Nigel Gibson Copy Share Image
Political change does not really lead to any fundamental change for most of the people, indeed because politics (even if it calls itself democratic)… — Nigel Gibson Copy Share Image
Counter-violence against the colonial regime is liberatory because it is an act, and by acting, the absolute power of colonialism, internalized by the colonized,… — Nigel Gibson Copy Share Image
The only way that we can prove the relevance of Fanon in a certain way outside of some academic circles is to ask, do… — Nigel Gibson Copy Share Image
Many of the democratization projects are a real threat to real democracy. — Nigel Gibson Copy Share Image
The military defeat of an oppressive regime is important, but it does not answer our problems. It is where our problems begin, since social… — Nigel Gibson Copy Share Image
Manicheanism is like a vacuum, it is an either or situation that curtails or destroys the development of liberatory thought. — Nigel Gibson Copy Share Image
Fanon calls his ideology a new humanism, not only in contrast to the elite humanism of the West, but also on the axiom that… — Nigel Gibson Copy Share Image
