tag:peatix.com,2011:1 2021-11-15T11:00:17+08:00 Peatix George Town Literary Festival tag:peatix.com,2018:event-451387 2018-11-25T13:45:00MYT 2018-11-25T13:45:00MYT

Speakers: Leila S. Chudori, Mohan Ambikaipaker, Kyoko Yoshida, Salil TripathiModerator:  Sharaad KuttanConversations: A Perfect World versus a Better WorldFor the last seven decades, ideas of ‘freedom’ and ‘rights’ have been central to a whole range of politics: inscribed in instruments like the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and articulated as part of everyday political discourse. There is a presumed fact that freedom is a universal idea: that individuals should be able to act without unjust constraint, with agency and autonomy. And yet freedom quite clearly means different things to different people. Does it mean from limiting constraints – for fear, from want, from discrimination, from violence? Or does it mean the freedom of choice, as neoliberalism would have it, to be delivered by an unfettered market? What kinds of alternative possibilities of action exist? Is another world really possible?Room: Heaven (Level 2)