David Parker is Emeritus Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Leeds. His books include The Making of French Absolutism (1983); State and Class in Ancient Regime France: The Road t
Ashwin Desai is Professor of Sociology at the University of Johannesburg. His previous books include South Africa: Still Revolting, ‘We are the Poors’: Community Struggles in Post-Apart
Shamsul Islam is a left activist, author, and theatre person based in Delhi. His notable books include Know the RSS (2000), Golwalkar’s We, or Our Nationhood Defined (2006), and Muslims Against P
bell hooks (1952-2021), is a cultural critic, feminist theorist, and writer. Previously a professor in the English departments at Yale University and Oberlin College, hooks was a Distinguished Prof
Ananya Jahanara Kabir is Professor of English Literature at King’s College, London. She has written numerous articles in the fields of literary and cultural criticism, the politics of visual repr
