Beyond the Classroom S3: E2-'Reading after Empire'-Maya Jasanoff in conversation with Madhavi Menon

Has empire ended? And what, if anything, has replaced it? In what languages do we read and write in a world post empire? Are languages regional and national or are they also conceptual? Is what we read and write as important as how we do it? How is the idea of the nation-state shaped by language? What role does translation pay in a post-empire world? Is English truly a "world language" or does it dominate and demand obeisance from its subjects, much as the English empire did? Has anything changed? Are we still living with and in an empire?