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The World After Gaza
- Author
- Pankaj Mishra
- Narrator
- Mikhail Sen
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 6 February 2025
- Run Time
- 6 hours 57 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Colonialism and imperialism, Religious intolerance, persecution and conflict, Genocide and ethnic cleansing, Geopolitics, Violence, intolerance and persecution in history, Far-right political ideologies and movements, Middle Eastern history, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism, Social and cultural history
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From the award-winning writer and thinker, an essential reckoning with the war in Gaza, its historical conditions, and moral and geopolitical ramifications
Memory of the Holocaust, the ultimate atrocity of Europe’s civil wars and the paradigmatic genocide, has shaped the Western political and moral imagination in the postwar era. Fears of its recurrence have been routinely invoked to justify Israel’s policies against Palestinians. But for most people around the world – the ‘darker peoples’, in W. E. B Du Bois’s words – the main historical memory is of the traumatic experiences of slavery and colonialism, and the central event of the twentieth century is decolonisation – freedom from the white man’s world.
The World after Gaza takes the war in the Middle East, and the bitterly polarised reaction to it within as well as outside the West, as the starting point for a broad reevaluation of two competing narratives of the last century: the West’s triumphant account of victory over Nazi and communist totalitarianism and the spread of liberal capitalism, and the darker peoples’s frequently thwarted vision of racial equality. At a moment when the world’s balance of power is shifting and a long-dominant Western minority no longer commands the same authority and credibility, it is critically important to enter the experiences and perspectives of the majority of the world’s population.
As old touchstones and landmarks crumble, only a new history with a sharply different emphasis can reorient us to the world and worldviews now emerging into the light. In this concise, powerful and pointed treatise, Mishra reckons with the fundamental questions posed by our present crisis — about whether some lives matter more than others, why identity politics built around memories of suffering is being widely embraced and why racial antagonisms are intensifying amid a far-right surge in the West, threatening a global conflagration. The World after Gaza is an indispensable moral guide to our past, present and future.
'A rare text: courageous and bracing, learned and ethical, rigorous and mind-expanding' NAOMI KLEIN
© Pankaj Mishra 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025
Critics Review
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The World After Gaza . . . is as thoughtful, scholarly and subtle as it is brave and original. By a long way the most horrifying and thought-provoking book I have read this year
Guardian, *Summer Reads of 2025*
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A book of passion, fury and clarity. Mishra is one of the most important voices of our generation
Peter Frankopan
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A seething and erudite indictment of the west’s role in the creation of Israel and everything that has flowed from it
Guardian
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This is a rare text: courageous and bracing, learned and ethical, rigorous and mind-expanding
Naomi Klein
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As scholarly and subtle as it is brave and original, it’s by a long way the saddest and most thought-provoking book I have read this year
Spectator, *Books of the Year*
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Stimulating and brilliantly researched
Irish Times
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In this urgent book, Mishra grapples with the inexplicable spectacle of stone-faced Western elites ignoring, and indeed justifying, the slaughter and starvation of Palestinians in Gaza. Mishra reflects on the supposedly universal consensus that emerged from the Holocaust, as well as his own early sympathies for Israel, as he expounds on the terrible toll of this passivity in the face of atrocity
Rashid Khalidi
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This profoundly important and urgent book finds Mishra, one of our most intellectually astute and courageous writers, at the peak of his powers. His outrage is hard to ignore. But at the centre of this book is a humane inquiry into what suffering can make us do, and he leaves us with the troubling question of what world will we find after Gaza
Hisham Matar
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An impassioned account . . . Richly researched . . . Riveting
The Tablet
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If books have a role today in the elucidation of justice, then I believe The World after Gaza will prove to be as crucial to our own times as James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time was to his
Andrew O’Hagan
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Details
- Author
- Pankaj Mishra
- Narrator
- Mikhail Sen
- Duration
- 6 hours 57 minutes
- Release Date
- 6 February 2025
- ISBN
- 9781529957433
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Colonialism and imperialism, Religious intolerance, persecution and conflict, Genocide and ethnic cleansing, Geopolitics, Violence, intolerance and persecution in history, Far-right political ideologies and movements, Middle Eastern history, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism, Social and cultural history
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.From the award-winning writer and thinker, an essential reckoning with the war in Gaza, its historical conditions, and moral and geopolitical ramificationsMemory of the Holocaust, the ultimate atrocity of Europe’s civil wars and the paradigmatic genocide, has shaped the Western political and moral imagination in the postwar era. Fears of its recurrence have been routinely invoked to justify Israel’s policies against Palestinians. But for most people around the world – the ‘darker peoples’, in W. E. B Du Bois’s words – the main historical memory is of the traumatic experiences of slavery and colonialism, and the central event of the twentieth century is decolonisation – freedom from the white man’s world.The World after Gaza takes the war in the Middle East, and the bitterly polarised reaction to it within as well as outside the West, as the starting point for a broad reevaluation of two competing narratives of the last century: the West’s triumphant account of victory over Nazi and communist totalitarianism and the spread of liberal capitalism, and the darker peoples’s frequently thwarted vision of racial equality. At a moment when the world’s balance of power is shifting and a long-dominant Western minority no longer commands the same authority and credibility, it is critically important to enter the experiences and perspectives of the majority of the world’s population.As old touchstones and landmarks crumble, only a new history with a sharply different emphasis can reorient us to the world and worldviews now emerging into the light. In this concise, powerful and pointed treatise, Mishra reckons with the fundamental questions posed by our present crisis — about whether some lives matter more than others, why identity politics built around memories of suffering is being widely embraced and why racial antagonisms are intensifying amid a far-right surge in the West, threatening a global conflagration. The World after Gaza is an indispensable moral guide to our past, present and future.'A rare text: courageous and bracing, learned and ethical, rigorous and mind-expanding' NAOMI KLEIN© Pankaj Mishra 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025
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