None of the Epstein revelations should shock anyone who has studied colonialism with open eyes. What the world calls a “scandal” is better understood as an unbroken historical through-line: the systematic sexual barbarism that has always been structural to white supremacist empire-building. The depravity on display in Epstein’s mansions, private islands, and private jets is not a modern aberration. It is the same depravity that saturated the slave quarters, the frontier forts, the colonial barracks, and the plantation big houses. It is older than the United States. It is foundational to it. White supremacy has never been only about skin color or alleged intellectual hierarchy. At its violent heart, it has always been an ideology of entitled access—the unquestioned right of the “superior” man to take, use, degrade, and discard the bodies of those he has already classified as less-than-human. When European men first stepped onto this continent, they did not limit conquest to land and gol...
This blog offers Mohan Dutta's reflections on the theoretical framework of the culture-centered approach, examining the interplays among culture, communication and marginalisation. It also explores resistance, the ways in which communities at the margins challenge structures. Writings on the blog are updated to reflect the organic analysis of structure and agency. Occasionally, this serves as a space for interlocutors examining marginalisation and voice.