Spaces of liberation are, in a certain way, some kind of social spaces where people can not only get together and think… — 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… — 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… — Nigel Gibson Copy Share Image
The problem in Syria, I think, is that when there is so much violence, there is not only very little chance to… — Nigel Gibson Copy Share Image
The grand schemes of liberation, however indistinct and amorphous, can quickly be compromised, consumed by petty disputes and local hatreds. — 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
