Protests of the marginalised: an interview

openDemocracy: Was there anything you heard in the seminar that surprised you as an academic researcher, something that maybe you didn’t expect to hear?

Fazila Bhimji (Fazila): I didn’t expect to hear the discussion around the need to be critical of the movements. I was expecting to hear more theorising, as we do in academic conferences. But this was a different format that allowed people to express what they found difficult with the movements - not so much going into the complexities of these movements, but simply the encouragement to think of movements not so euphorically and in a more critical light.