Let's Speculate: Recent Episodes
Madhu Nadarajah
A podcast that deals about colonialism, war, trauma and memory, othering and brownness among other things.
So we usually hear this concept of "modernity or bust." However, do we really understand how violent and problematizing this push to total “modernization” is when we consider who we continuously push to the side? Today’s episode of Let’s Speculate will look at the devastation of what proposed modernization leads to when we look at the current protest in India with the farmers.
**I know it’s been almost a year since I last posted an episode, but I’m back and I think I want to stay. It’s not that I didn’t want to continue my podcast after I posted those initial episodes. I think it was just one of those things that needed to occur in its own time and when I was really ready.
Well, I’m feeling ready and that this is the moment for Let's Speculate to get going again.**
This podcast episode will look at the participation of women in resistance movements that occur during genocides and politicides. Specifically, I will be discussing women fighters in the Tamil Tigers (LTTE) and Mayan women fighters in guerilla resistance movements. Discretion is advised as this episode does deal with topics such as sexual violence, torture, and trauma.
This week's podcast will look at Italy’s colonial presence in Ethiopia. Specifically, we’ll be looking at Ennio Flaiano’s 1947 novel The Short Cut to mediate my discussion because it is often credited as the only Italian work to be set in Ethiopia.
The very first episode of my podcast is a "happy hour hot take" of knowledge that takes us to Algeria. Of course we can't talk about Algeria without talking about The Battle of Algiers. We tackle the difficult conversation of genocide, politicide, what happened between Algeria and France, and was there really a genocide?