Category: Politics

Posts on matters related to local and national politics.

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On Books and Publishing Politics

Review of Anthropology’s Politics: Disciplining the Middle East, in Electronic Intifada

Anthropology as a discipline has always been rooted in imperialism. 

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Politics

If I Cannot Snark At Your Revolution

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On Books and Publishing Politics

Review of Steven Salaita’s Uncivil Rites

“We ought to complicate academic freedom even as we vigorously defend it.”

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Politics Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

What We Don’t Talk about When We Talk about Race

Blue II (1961) - Joan Miro
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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Politics

The problem with Fixing Wall Street Is It Can’t Be Fixed

More than ever in the history of capitalism, capital’s force is most evident in its invisible workings. 

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Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media Politics Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

It’s Fiorina and Clinton, not Carly and Hillary

Excerpt: Naming is power, and how the press names and refers to candidates has everything to do with what values it assigns to them.

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Politics Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Stop Fetishising Youth Organisers

Why assume that age gives either wisdom to the old or energy to the young?

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On Books and Publishing Politics

My Review of Joseph Massad’s Islam in Liberalism in Electronic Intifdad

This is a dense and densely argued book, in the best way.

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Politics Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Hillary Clinton, Sexism, and Black Lives Matter

This is sexist bullshit, and we need to call it what it is.  

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Politics Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Your Sex Is Not Radical

Excerpt: How many people you fuck has nothing to do with the extent to which you fuck up capitalism.  

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