NIKITA DHAWAN The Subaltern and the Intellectual: Ethico-Political Imperatives https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGE1P7exudY
One of the most challenging questions for critical social and political theory is: Why do nonhegemonic groups consent to their own subjugation and accept their disenfranchisement as inevitable? Dhawan’s contribution will focus on how the construction of international civil society actors as “givers” and the subalterns as “receivers” of help and solidarity results in the transnational elites monopolizing agency and emerging as ethical subjects in the name of doing good. Desubalternization, Dhawan argues, requires a global redistribution of intellectual labour, so that the discontinuity between the subaltern and the intellectual may be undone.
How should global solidarity work? Transnational elites instrumentlise the suffering of others..