‘Wokeism’ is out, bigotry is in. Meanwhile, inequality continues unabated.


Ilan Kapoor is a Professor of Critical Development Studies at the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University, Toronto. He is the autho... r of seven books, focusing on postcolonial theory/politics, psychoanalytic theory/politics, and ideology critique.
‘Wokeism’ is out, bigotry is in. Meanwhile, inequality continues unabated.

Trump’s ‘billionaire boys club’ has parallels in other supposedly liberal democracies around the world.

The controversy over Gayatri Spivak’s public rebuke of a Dalit scholar has important social and political implications.
![Noted postcolonial scholar Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s admonition of a young scholar for mispronouncing African-American sociologist WEB Du Bois’s name at a recent lecture has caused a brouhaha in academic circles [Wikimedia Commons].](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/spivak-1717761812.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)