Mass political awakenings have occurred recently in Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and most recently, Madagascar. This is part of an overall pattern of mass movements called “The Eros Effect” by historian and social theorist George Katsiaficas. In the past 60 years, this has included the global uprisings of 1968, the nuclear disarmament movement of the early 1980s, Asia’s pro-democracy uprisings in the 80s and 90s, the anti-corporate globalization movement, the Arab Spring, the Indignados Movement and Occupy Wall Street moment of 2011, and now the Gen Z uprisings sweeping Asia, Africa and other parts of the world.
In our latest, we talk with George Katsiaficas about the recent uprisings and the Eros Effect.
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George Katsiaficas is a historian and social theorist. He’s the author of “Asia’s Unknown Uprisings” and “The Subversion of Politics.”
