Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: 2025 Holberg Prize Laureate

Welcome to Revise and Resubmit, the podcast where we break down the most influential academic works and challenge the boundaries of knowledge!Today, we celebrate an intellectual powerhouse—Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, the 2025 Holberg Prize winner. From dismantling the Western gaze in Can the Subaltern Speak? to redefining "planetarity" as an ethical alternative to globalization, Spivak has shaped postcolonial studies, feminist theory, and translation in ways few have dared. She is not just a scholar—she is a force of nature, questioning power structures and amplifying voices that history tries to silence.Spivak has published nine books and translated many others. Her works have been translated into over 20 languages. Her key works include In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics (1987), A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Towards a History of the Vanishing Present (1999), Death of a Discipline (2003), An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization (2012), and Ethics and Politics in Tagore, Coetzee and Certain Scenes of Teaching (2018). Her latest book is Spivak Moving (2024). But here’s the real question: Can academia truly decolonize itself, or is it forever trapped in the structures it critiques?A huge thanks to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak for her pioneering work and to the Holberg Committee for recognizing this intellectual legacy.ReferencesGayatri Chakravorty Spivak. (2025, March 13). Holbergprize. https://holbergprize.org/laureates/gayatri-chakravorty-spivak/Youtube channel link https://www.youtube.com/@weekendresearcherSupport us on Patreonhttps://patreon.com/weekendresearcher