Global Currents Archives | Contending Modernities

The Hindu Rashtra Comes of Age

Series: The Revoking of Kashmir's Special Status

Ather Zia
January 3, 2020January 5, 2020

In context of rising institutionalization of discrimination against Muslims, Kashmiris fear that Indian settler colonialism and dispossession are becoming increasingly real inside the valley. The question now is: will the world keep silent?

What is so Special about Kashmir’s Special Status?

Series: The Revoking of Kashmir's Special Status

Abir Bazaz
November 12, 2019January 4, 2020

Though the Hindu and Muslim religious cultures in India and Pakistan offer us fantasies of Kashmir as either a sacred Hindu space or a lost Muslim paradise, the actual Kashmiri Hindu and Muslim religious culture affirms Kashmir as a heterodox and plural spiritual space.

The Future of Islamic Authority: New Recipes for Milk Shaykhs

Mahan Mirza
October 11, 2019October 14, 2019

Things are most interesting, however, at edges, intersections, and boundaries. That is where complexity resides, and that is where the kind of enduring authority that will command the middle can best plant its flag.

Weaponizing Antisemitism under the Guise of Care

Series: Trump and Dual Loyalty

Joyce Dalsheim
September 16, 2019September 16, 2019

Suggesting that Jews are disloyal to the modern state of Israel is a form of antisemitism, thinly veiled in terms of caring about Jews.

On Disloyalty and Dual Loyalty: Is President Trump a Brandeisean Zionist?

Series: Trump and Dual Loyalty

Shaul Magid
August 28, 2019September 16, 2019

Trump’s comment on Jews’ “great disloyalty” wasn’t accusing Jews of dual loyalty; in fact, he was suggesting Jews are not exercising dual loyalty enough.

CRISPR-Cas 9, Practical Wisdom, and Human Identity

Series: Science and the Human Person 2019 Series

Celia Deane-Drummond
August 23, 2019August 23, 2019

Practical wisdom is not a panacea, but it may be an important alternative to the idea that all we need to do is apply fixed principles such as individual autonomy to ethical problems that are, at root, the same.

Catholic Conceptions of Personhood and Gene Editing

Series: Science and the Human Person 2019 Series

Aline Kalbian
August 9, 2019August 9, 2019

Understanding how the Catholic faith community navigates a path between fear of technological overreach and the pursuit of medical advances allows us to see the complexity of the relationship between human identity and genetic intervention.

Unmasking Neoliberalism’s Invisible Grip: Homo Economicus and the Person in Bioethics

Series: Science and the Human Person 2019 Series

M. Therese Lysaught
July 18, 2019July 30, 2019

The CRISPR conversation makes clear that bioethics, as it has emerged since the 1980s, is a deeply neoliberal project.

Turkey, White Supremacy, and the Clash of Civilizations

Series: Christchurch and Beyond

Perin Gurel
July 10, 2019August 7, 2019

At the intersection of civilizational discourses and obsession with reproductive purity, one finds a toxic passion for an imagined Medieval past and an obsession with the Ottoman Empire/Turkey that echoes the “Clash of Civilizations” rhetoric.