Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Mirror Sites:
CSUDH - Habermas - UWP

Caliifornia State University, Dominguez Hills
University of Wisconsin, Parkside
Created: September 28, 2001
Latest Update: September 28, 2001
jeannecurran@habermas.org
takata@uwp.edu

First of all, let me assure you that I do NOT understand postcolonialism in the rigorous academic sense in which Spivak expounds it. I have the appropriate qualifications in neither philosophy or world literature. On the other hand, I DO understand the importance of postcolonialism sociologically within the Dear Habermas project of critical thinking for the public intellectual, and that is the sense in which I teach it.

I believe that the time has come for intellectuals who teach to introduce their students of every discipline to the important ideas of every other discipline. Sociology is the study of interdependence between interpersonal relationships and institutional relationships. The day has come when none of us is free of this interdependence, not even the most remote aboriginal tribe, for the world has grown irreparably smaller, as witnessed by the events at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.