Shows
Scotland’s FutureEpisode 5 - Scotland’s role in connecting the past with the future in Africa and AsiaIn Episode 5 of our podcast series Professor Stephen Gethins meets Dr Milinda Banerjee, Lecturer in Modern History in the School of History and Sociologist Dr Jo Mhairi Hale, lecturer in Geography and Sustainable Development, to talk about the interdisciplinary project they are embarking on as part of Scotland’s Future Series with their colleague, Isabel Robinson, Research Fellow in Modern History.
Called ‘For Freedom: Scotland and the Making of a Decolonised World’ their project looks at Scotland’s role in the anti-colonial movement. During the discussion, they talk about how 2022 marks a century since the formal independence of Egypt...2022-06-0927 min
Asian Studies CentreHow ‘Dynasty’ Became a Modern Global Concept: Intellectual Histories of Sovereignty and PropertyMilinda Banerjee (University of St Andrews) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 24 January 2022 The modern concept of ‘dynasty’ is a politically-motivated modern intellectual invention. For many advocates of a strong sovereign nation-state across the nineteenth and early twentieth century, in France, Germany, and Japan, the concept helped in visualizing the nation-state as a primordial entity sealed by the continuity of birth and blood, indeed by the perpetuity of sovereignty. Hegel’s references to ‘dynasty’, read with Marx’s critique, further show how ‘dynasty’ encoded the intersection of sovereignty and big property, indeed the coming into self-consciousness of their mutual...2022-03-1153 min
Philosophical Foundations of International Criminal LawMilinda Banerjee, Towards Global Criminal Justice?2017-08-2500 minPhilosophical Foundations of International Criminal LawMilinda Banerjee, Towards Global Criminal Justice?2017-08-2500 min