The Periphery and Aimé Césaire's Ghosts in the Syrian Revolution w/ Fadi Bardawil (E103)

This is a conversation with Fadi Bardawil, his 2nd time on the podcast. Bardawil is an anthropologist who researches the Leftist tradition in the Arab world. In this episode, we talked about two essays he's written: "Forsaking the Syrian Revolution: An Anti-Imperialist Handbook" and "Critical Theory in a Minor Key to Take Stock of the Syrian Revolution".What we talked about:Thinking about the Syrian revolutionAimé Césaire and StalinismTension between Leftists in the Metropoles and Revolutionaries in the PeripheriesLearning from the Palestinian storyDomestic politics in the Metropoles becoming global politicsFocusing on wider trends instead of individual motivesDiscourses that erase the Syrian revolutionExample of Hong KongExample of the Lebanese Left of the 60sRecommended Books:The Syrian Revolution: Between the Politics of Life and the Geopolitics of Death by Yasser Munifالفظيع وتمثيله - ياسين الحاج صالحReadings in Syrian Prison Literature: The Poetics of Human Rights by R. Shareah Taleghani