Raj Patel
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157 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2022
last heard May 2022
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This is a series of stories upon stories upon stories of nation upon nation upon nation upon nation.
And that's important.
Because every day our children are taught in schools in Texas that we live in one nation under God.
But I think what this points to is what Rupert is saying about cracking the world open to hear and tell different stories about how it is that we belong.
And that's a collective process.
Often the questions we get about how we decolonize are often keen for an answer where, you know, there'll be a decolonization therapist.
You just sort of lie on the couch.
And we go through our ancestry.com answers and then somehow we we've figured out how it is that we've been implicated and that our ancestors were evil.
I mean my ancestors and my living relatives are Hindu supremacists.
So I mean I know that they're on the wrong side of history.
But the process of decolonization is about the care for certain kinds of narratives and stories that are the healing narratives that we are daily prevented from hearing, that is in fact compulsory not to hear in schools.
So when we hear those many nations and their many stories, we recuperate some of that.
But it is a fight.
As I say, here in Texas, there are certain things you're just not allowed to say, which is why it's very important to say them.
It would be churlish to try and follow that up.
So I I I think it would be important for Rupert have the last word.
Thank you so much, Emily.
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