Author: Pankaj Mishra.
After the Second World War, the new global order was formed mainly in response to the Holocaust. That was the landmark event of atrocity and, in the western imagination, genocide par excellence. His memory guides much of our thinking and, fundamentally, is the basic justification for Israel’s right to establish itself as a state and defend itself.
But in many parts of the world, ravaged by other conflicts and experiences of mass massacres, the Holocaust is not so unique, even when its appalling atrocity is. Because outside the West, argues the author of this book, Pankaj Mishra, the dominant story of the 20th century is not the Holocaust but decolonization. The world after Gaza takes the current war, and the polarization around it, as the starting point for a broad reassessment of two narratives about the past century: the triumphal tale of the Global North with its victory over totalitarianism and the expansion of liberal capitalism, and the Global South’s hopeful vision of racial equality and freedom from colonial rule. At a time when the balance of world power is changing and the Global North no longer has supreme authority, it is vitally important that we understand how and why the two halves of the world fail to communicate with each other. In this concise, powerful and straightforward essay, Mishra addresses the fundamental questions that our current crisis poses: do some lives matter more than others? , how is identity built in our multicultural societies? and what should be the role of the nation-state? The world after Gaza is an indispensable moral guide to our past, present and future.
Pages: 256
Publisher: Galaxia Gutenberg, S.L.
Binding: Soft cover
ISBN: 9788410317383
RPP: 18,52 euros
