Fighting the Sweatshop Regime: A Conversation with Alessandra Mezzadri
The sweatshop regime will only be dismantled by mobilizing around—and transforming—work-spaces, life-spaces, and workers’ health in a holistic sense.
You Are Not Welcome Here: Race and Hostility in Britain’s Fast Fashion Industry
South Asian garment workers in Leicester are resisting precarity and institutionalised racism in Britain’s ‘hostile environment’ for immigrants.
When Sri Lanka Operated Workers’ Councils
Inspired by Yugoslavia’s market socialism, Trotskyists in the Sri Lankan government instituted workers’ councils during the 1970s. A decade later, the experiment collapsed. What explains its rise and fall?
Colonial Legacies and Fascist Tendencies: Housing Segregation in the Indian City
How colonial-era regulations created and maintained caste and religious segregation in what is now a stronghold of fascism: Gujarat.
Eagles and Sharks: Financial Imperialism in Pakistan and Sri Lanka
Is there a path out of the imperialist debt trap for South Asia's troubled economies?
Neoliberal Dreams and Nightmares: Hegemony and the Middle Class in Pakistan
Aasim Sajjad Akhtar’s latest book provides an illuminating account of the political and cultural apparatus of aspiration and coercion that underpins neoliberalism in the Global South.
Unending Disaster: Sindh’s Hamal Lake Submerges Surrounding Villages
Dispatches on the ongoing crisis from the flooding of Sindh’s second-largest lake.
Escaping the Flood: Glimpses from Life in Rural Sindh
A photo-essay showing the impact of the 2022 floods on the people of Sindh, Pakistan.
Empire and its Enemies: A Conversation with Priyamvada Gopal
For Jamhoor’s 2022 annual special issue on Imperialism in South Asia, we interviewed Priyamvada Gopal, renowned scholar on race, colonialism and imperialism.
Is Sri Lanka Heading Towards Further Turmoil: Roots of the 2022 Economic Crisis
Tracing colonial underdevelopment, incomplete industrialization and misplaced priorities in Sri Lanka.
Rural Emancipation in South Asia Today
A reflection on the several faultlines that need addressing to further emancipatory politics in South Asia’s countryside.
Itineraries of Insurgency in Rural India
Sara Abraham speaks to veteran Odia activist and author Ranjana Padhi.