London: Indian-origin writer Mahmoud Mamdani One of four authors from around the world to be shortlisted for the 2021 British Academy Book the prize Tuesday for Global Cultural Understanding.
The 75-year-old Mumbai-born Ugandan academic and author is in the running for the GBP 25,000 non-fiction prize for ‘Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities’, described as an in-depth investigation into the political has been done. Exploring the roots of modernity, colonial and post-colonial, and the violence that plagued post-colonial society. In the book, Mamdani is said to make a “powerful and original” argument that the nation-state and the colonial state created each other.
The judges of the award referred to their book as “an original and strongly reasoned book that explains how the development of colonial and post-colonial nation-states has created ‘permanent minorities’, which are then known as existing external nationalities.” I am victimised.”
“The book is particularly strong in exploring the consequences of this problem, showing here that extreme xenophobic violence occurred in various post-colonial situations. Mamdani presents a convincing argument for the necessary re-imagining of politics in that situation.” Before reforming there should be a valuable book on an issue of outstanding importance,” he notes.
Others on the 2021 shortlist include Sri Lanka-born Cambridge historian Sujith Sivasundaram in ‘Waves are from the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire’, a maritime history of the Empire. Scotland-based Cal Flynn has been selected for ‘Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape’, exploring the ecology and psychology of abandoned places. Eddie S. Glaud Jr., chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University, is in the running for ‘Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Today’, which has been dubbed a serious indictment of racial injustice in America Inspired. The Life and Works of James Baldwin, American essayist, novelist, and playwright.
Professor Patrick Wright, Fellow of the British Academy, said: “Each of the authors selected for this important award sheds new light on a globally important problem through careful research and compelling reasoning, raising important questions and providing insights into what can be learned for the future.” Suggested lessons.” and chairman of this year’s jury.
“Each of the selected books invites the reader to make their own inquiries and thereby participate in the growth of ‘global understanding’. In different ways, all the books speak directly to the immediate challenges of the time. in which we live,” he said.
The International Book Award rewards and celebrates the best works of non-fiction that have contributed to public understanding of world cultures and aims to introduce readers to books on urgent and globally important topics.
“The British Academy is honored to support this unique non-fiction book award that celebrates exceptional authors who illuminate the interconnections and divisions that shape cultural identities around the world. This year’s shortlist is the Humanities. and reflect the breadth and depth of social science and the important role it plays in deepening our understanding of people, cultures and societies,” said Professor Julia Black, President of the British Academy.
The 2021 winner will be announced on 26 October by the British Academy, the UK’s national voice for the humanities and social sciences. Winner in 2020 for ‘Imperial Intimacy: A Tale of Two Islands’ Hazel V. Karbi Tha and other past winners included Toby Greene, Kapka Kasabova, Neil McGregor and Karen Armstrong.
The 75-year-old Mumbai-born Ugandan academic and author is in the running for the GBP 25,000 non-fiction prize for ‘Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities’, described as an in-depth investigation into the political has been done. Exploring the roots of modernity, colonial and post-colonial, and the violence that plagued post-colonial society. In the book, Mamdani is said to make a “powerful and original” argument that the nation-state and the colonial state created each other.
The judges of the award referred to their book as “an original and strongly reasoned book that explains how the development of colonial and post-colonial nation-states has created ‘permanent minorities’, which are then known as existing external nationalities.” I am victimised.”
“The book is particularly strong in exploring the consequences of this problem, showing here that extreme xenophobic violence occurred in various post-colonial situations. Mamdani presents a convincing argument for the necessary re-imagining of politics in that situation.” Before reforming there should be a valuable book on an issue of outstanding importance,” he notes.
Others on the 2021 shortlist include Sri Lanka-born Cambridge historian Sujith Sivasundaram in ‘Waves are from the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire’, a maritime history of the Empire. Scotland-based Cal Flynn has been selected for ‘Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape’, exploring the ecology and psychology of abandoned places. Eddie S. Glaud Jr., chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University, is in the running for ‘Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Today’, which has been dubbed a serious indictment of racial injustice in America Inspired. The Life and Works of James Baldwin, American essayist, novelist, and playwright.
Professor Patrick Wright, Fellow of the British Academy, said: “Each of the authors selected for this important award sheds new light on a globally important problem through careful research and compelling reasoning, raising important questions and providing insights into what can be learned for the future.” Suggested lessons.” and chairman of this year’s jury.
“Each of the selected books invites the reader to make their own inquiries and thereby participate in the growth of ‘global understanding’. In different ways, all the books speak directly to the immediate challenges of the time. in which we live,” he said.
The International Book Award rewards and celebrates the best works of non-fiction that have contributed to public understanding of world cultures and aims to introduce readers to books on urgent and globally important topics.
“The British Academy is honored to support this unique non-fiction book award that celebrates exceptional authors who illuminate the interconnections and divisions that shape cultural identities around the world. This year’s shortlist is the Humanities. and reflect the breadth and depth of social science and the important role it plays in deepening our understanding of people, cultures and societies,” said Professor Julia Black, President of the British Academy.
The 2021 winner will be announced on 26 October by the British Academy, the UK’s national voice for the humanities and social sciences. Winner in 2020 for ‘Imperial Intimacy: A Tale of Two Islands’ Hazel V. Karbi Tha and other past winners included Toby Greene, Kapka Kasabova, Neil McGregor and Karen Armstrong.
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