Sunday Reading

ReclaimUC:

• "[I]f you want to avoid breaking the law, make sure that your UC-affiliated friend…is taking a break from research before you enter their property."
• There was never a golden age of public higher education
• "[T]here are approximately twice as many men on campuses who have committed rape than previously reported"
• The $150 million question—what does federal regulation really cost colleges?
• A university without shared governance is not a university
• Campus cops are increasingly militarized, aggressive, and secretive
• "Many schools, public and charter alike, have been built and operate now like prisons"
• "The same logic that excludes certain young people from the premise of a carefree childhood justifies the economic and state violence done to them."
• Life under austerity
• "The party": a new documentary on the Black Panthers made from archival footage

Kerim Friedman:

• Torture, American-Style: The Role of Money in Interrogations
• In Historic Ruling, EEOC Finds Sexual Orientation Discrimination Is Already Illegal
• A Gap Lingers in Taiwan’s Wartime Memory
• Shibboleth
• Interview With 'Court' Writer and Director Chaitanya Tamhane
• The Euro – A Monetary Strangulation Mechanism
• Grexit or Jubilee? How Greek Debt Can Be Annulled
• US urged to cancel Xi Jinping visit after China's human rights crackdown
• Why Greece Isn't to Blame for the Crisis
• No Longer Getting Lost at the Strand
• Scholars Have Been Pointing Out Atticus Finch's Racism for Years
• War came to Mindanao
• The Journey of Sambhaji Bhagat: The Man who Inspired the Making of the Film 'Court' and Gave it Its Music
• “The White Man’s Burden” (1898–1902)
• Seeing Like a Geek

Bint Battuta:

• Becoming "White": Race, Religion and the Foundations of Syrian/Lebanese Ethnicity in the United States
• The Ancient Origins of Qur’anic Laws
• Deutschlands erste Moschee
• The politics of language and culture in Myanmar
• Drugs, Health, Bodies and Souls in the Tropics: Medical Experiments in 16th-century Portuguese India

Karen Gregory:

• Nearly Every Job in America, Mapped
• Serfing the Web: On Demand Workers Deserve a Place at the Table
• Digital Sociology
• Poetics of Control
• Free Labor: Producing Culture for the Digital Economy
• The Airbnb Effect
• Commuter Students Using Technology
• Silent and Independent: Student Use of Academic Library Study Space
• Political Data is Everywhere-- But what does it mean? 
• "It was Labour that left me, not the other way about..."
• Why Labor Moved Left 
• In Defense of Sara Goldrick-Rab
• Sandra Bland and the Invisible Plight of Black Women in the Justice System
• Skull Robbers: how celebrity culture lost its head
• This Imaginary Half-Nothing: Time
• Data's Work is Never Done 

Kitabet:

• “the reconstruction of the Cascadia earthquake of 1700 is one of those rare natural puzzles whose pieces fit together as tectonic plates do not: perfectly.”
• Endgame in Europe
• Life Goes On: Banalities and Sociabilities of Crisis Greece
• “Pompeian graffitists seem to have been fascinated by the physical and visual aspects of writing.”
• The Lost Art of Eid Greeting Cards
• The Boys Who Could See England
• “Language gives out in the face of something like a goshawk.”
• On Jeffery Jerome Cohen’s Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman
• The Last Katibs of Delhi
• “The test was given the evocative code name of Trinity, although no one seems to know precisely why.”
• Adopt a Tsunami Siren
• You Just Got Out of Prison. Now What?
• “The desert snail at once awoke and found himself famous”
• Queer Iraq
• Riding an UberBoat Across the Bosphorus

Confronting New Madrid,

• Part I: “It's a truism that in earthquakes, structures tend to fail at the connection points, and this holds for abstract political structures just as much as highway bridges.” 
  Part II: “It is my first encounter with a celebrity sandstone.”

Jacob Remes:

• "At any time, it is unprofessional for a Faculty Senate to tell a professor to shut up."
• Strategies and tactics other movements are learning from marriage equality
• A Taman Shud case for the refugee era
• The Bosnian National Museum survived the Sarajevo Siege, but not the Dayton Peace
• Who owns Franz Kafka?
• The coming Pacific Northwest earthquake
• "I do not see how a return to nation states that have to be run like big corporations in a global market can counter the tendency towards de-democratisation and growing social inequality."
• “The left…may join Tory Euroskeptics in voting against a European project that no longer makes sense to them.”
• Who are the EU "technocrats"?
• Under Abe, "Japan’s postwar progress outrageously reversed"

PracticallyMarzipan:

• A Nice Hobby, Like Knitting
• How Early Photographers Saw India
• Writing Queerly: Three Snapshots
• Reading Comprehension: Text no. 1.
• Sanskrit's Attack on Plagiarism
• This Imaginary Half-Nothing: Time
• Talking Afronauts and Nabakov with the 2015 Caine Prize Winner 
• A Singular Woman
• The New Genre of Plastic Realism in American Fiction (part two)
• Clade, by James Bradley
• On Mourning: Repetition and Re-memories.
• The Detective As Speech