How should we conceptualize "universality" in the world today?

What is it about?

This article engages with critiques of "universality", while offering fresh perspectives on the idea of universality, in dialogue with thinkers from interdisciplinary fields of Africana studies, political economy, psychoanalysis, and more.

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Why is it important?

This article cuts-through stale debates on "universal vs. particular" movements of history, and shows how individual struggles for emancipation are embodiment of the world-historical 'movement of the universal' itself. It does so by analyzing a case study of social struggles waged by the Indigenous San of Botswana.