Neema Parvini

Neema Parvini is senior lecturer in English at the University of Surrey. He also presents a podcast series called Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory.

9 Posts

A Tale of Two Cities: The Modern Soothsayers

How much longer people are going to listen to these modern soothsayers. At this point, they are naked lobbyists for entrenched special interests.

Neema Parvini

22 Dec 2018 · 5 min read

What We Talk About When We Talk About Immigration

Focusing on immigration policy through the lens of political allegiance is both dangerous and often ahistorical.

Neema Parvini

26 Nov 2018 · 11 min read

Individuals and Symbols

Whenever a political movement ceases to see people as individuals, and rather sees them as symbols of a class, violence usually follows.

Neema Parvini

18 Oct 2018 · 7 min read

Why Assumptions About 'Rising Inequality' Are Wrong

“Rising inequality” has become a catch-all explanation with which politicians, journalists, and intellectuals can wave away the actual concerns of “populists,” with abstract talk about the “underlying economic causes” — few if any of which stand up to scrutiny.

Neema Parvini

4 Oct 2018 · 9 min read

Rejecting Progress in the Name of 'Cultural Appropriation'

Historically, it has been the European openness not only to foreign goods, but also foreign ideas – those which work, those which enhance our physical and mental wellbeing – that has signalled the forward march of modernity.

Neema Parvini

22 Aug 2018 · 7 min read

The Prison-House of Political Language

Plans have now been announced to once again adapt Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four to the screen but this time with “Trump hanging over it."

Neema Parvini

4 Jun 2018 · 11 min read

The Elites and Inequality: The Rise and Fall of the Managerial Class

In analysing the political upheavals across Europe and America in the past several years, it has become customary to talk about ‘the elites’ and about ‘inequality’. This article will explore both concepts in political and socio-economic analysis, and posits that certain elites in the West need narratives of inequality to

Neema Parvini

11 May 2018 · 10 min read

The Incentives for Groupthink

What is groupthink? It is the powerful mechanism through which groups reinforce.

Neema Parvini

22 Apr 2018 · 12 min read

The Stifling Uniformity of Literary Theory

Many universities and colleges currently advertise literary theory courses which purport to introduce students to a range of different approaches to literary texts.

Neema Parvini

15 Apr 2018 · 11 min read