Spivak
Proper noun
Meaning
Spivak (plural Spivaks)
A surname from Ukrainian.
Examples
Aaron Spivak, a co-founder of Hush Blankets of Toronto, said his orders for April this year are more than five times what they were in April of last year, hovering close to $500,000.
Burton Spivak, Jefferson's English Crisis: Commerce, Embargo and the Republican Revolution (1988) Election of 1808 main With Jefferson's second term winding down, and his decision to retire widely known, Madison was the party choice for president in 1808.
Some activists Le Trigre sings about in “Hot Topic” include tennis player and LGBTQ+ activist Billie Jean King, feminist thinker Gayatri Spivak, communist journalist and transgender activist Leslie Feinberg and filmmaker Marlon Riggs.
In A critique of Postcolonial Reason, Spivak argues that Western philosophy has a history of not only exclusion of the subaltern from discourse, but also does not allow them to occupy the space of a fully human subject.
It is in this post-colonial scene that critics of empire such as Edward Said and Gayatri Spivak realised that the politics of representation is not simply about misrepresentation of the other; it is about the coming to being of "The West" and its others.
At the time, Sid Spivak was the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party.