Aabid Firdausi, Author at Public Seminar

Capitalism

Ending Exploitation in the Fashion Industry

Towards a labor-centered notion of sustainability

July 26, 2022 • by Nandita Shivakumar and Aabid Firdausi

Instead of empty commitments to sustainability that at best result in greenwashing, there needs to be urgent structural transformations in the global garment industry. ...

Is Amartya Sen 21st Century’s ‘Great Critic’ of Capitalism?

A response to Tim Rogan

April 19, 2018 • by Aabid Firdausi and Nandita Shivakumar

Tim Rogan, in an essay recently published by Aeon, claims that Amartya Sen is the “Century’s Great Critic of Capitalism.” He states that Sen deserves this attribute because of his groundbreaking approach to capitalist critique, wherein he combines the moral and material critiques of capitalism that have hitherto remained two distinct ...

On Adivasi Development and Resistance in India

Existential questions faced by the subaltern

June 9, 2017 • by Aabid Firdausi

Existential questions faced by the subaltern When accepting the 2004 City of Sydney Peace Prize, Arundhati Roy remarked, “there's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.” This quote aptly captures the persecution and repression faced by people marginalized by society’s relentless ...