Sunday Reading

Kerim Friedman:

• Fueling the Neoliberal Turn: Why We Need to Engage Timothy Mitchell’s “Carbon Democracy”
• Govt may do away with tribal consent for cutting forests
• Inside China’s Cancer Villages: Q&A with Souvid Datta
• Why not kill them all?: In Donetsk
• What Hong Kong’s Occupy Movement Can Learn From History
• Free Economic Zone Plan Slammed as ‘Suicide’ Pact for Taiwan Farmers
• Stephen Harper sells Canada: China can secretly sue to repeal Canadian laws
• A rightward shift in Dalit politics
• Israel jailed influential Palestinian writer "to remove him from society"
• The Change in China's Hukou Policy Is Slow to Help Migrant Families
• Forget Colonial Myths: Xatanawa contact puts an end to a century of resistance

Jacob Remes:

• McCarthyism at the NSF
• "The Diaspora can become a place for the expression of morality."
• Oakland Jail's forced pregnancy tests
• Taking "safety" back from the bureaucrats
• "Capitalism has already won this stupid war."
• The beauty of Twitter
• What happened in New York this week
• Will Canada's Conservative government provoke strikes as an election tactic?
• "I would be excited to invent more terminology to make this list of synonyms for 'businessman' even longer."

ReclaimUC:

• Severing UC's ties to the fossil fuel industry
• Department of African American Studies statement on Steven Salaita, Michael Brown, and Ferguson, MO
• Why aren't we talking about racism and colonialism in the Salaita affair?
• From no-confidence votes to work stoppages
• The end of free speech: On the civility of Nicholas Dirks
• "Civility is the discourse of power."
• The order of civility
• "[I]n just the last few years, there were over 200 cases of people at universities being reprimanded, fired, or even litigated against for making anti-Israel statements."
• From boom to bust in science funding
• A collection of disorientation guides from across North America
• "One of my guiding assumptions has been that if I am going to get my ass kicked while acting in my capacity as a professor of literature, it will be by a student, rather than by a research subject"
• Rape culture in the Chronicle of Higher Education
• Whitman College and the end of economic diversity
• The history of race and football in Austin
• Accomplices wanted
• Logistics, circulation, chokepoints
• Table: military equipment colleges have received from the DOD's 1033 program

Jacqui Shine:

• Growing up on The Farm
• Amy Woolard on what we keep and what we can't
• Worst 100 White Men, Ranked
• Rebecca Onion on Ladies' Home Journal's "Can This Marriage Be Saved?"
• The NSA in-house newsletter has an advice column. National security analysts: they're just like US!
• Ask Anne Carson
• Won't somebody think of the nudists?
• "A handful of Craisins, the clit of fruit."
• Ida B. Wells' Red Record
• "The misery is like a well, and I just dig into the thing and pull it out anytime I want."
• "A Brand Remembers 9/11"
• "Fitness Culture and the Black Booty Paradox"
• "How Whitman College is Destroying Itself"
• Now we know: Dolly Parton does her own makeup.
• "After Ferguson, Some Black Academics Wonder: Does Pursuing a Ph.D. Matter?"
• Zora Neale Hurston wrote about Black life in a genre that only wanted to center whiteness and racial violence
• Adorno in a swimsuit

Kitabet:

• “It was Maclean’s book, not any act of nature, that give America its signature wildfire.”
• I Am, I’m Asking You To Quit
• “The disorder of things is in the blockade.”
• On Tenacious, a zine by and for women in prison
• “wherever the UNESCO hallmark is applied to a city, the city dies out, becoming the stuff of taxidermy”
• A Palestinian Exception to the First Amendment
• “I study the eighteenth century, so my research subjects are all dead, whereas my students are alive and occasionally angry at me.”
• Short Skirts and Niqab Bans: On Sexuality and the Secular Body
• “My favorite Nina Simone moment features her beginning and then refusing to continue a song.” 
• Carrying the Weight Together
• On green: “color has a history and a technology”
• “In a never-before-released thesis, Reagan’s FEMA director discussed the potential internment of millions of blacks in concentration camps.”
• Who Killed Jugni?
• “the tombstone portraits of the Dönmes, mainly from the Bülbülderesi (Valley of the Nightingales) cemetery on the Asian shore of Istanbul”
• Scottish Independence Referendum Gets The Middle East Expert Treatment

Nathan Deuel:

• "They don’t come in with a 2-month-old baby and go, ‘What’s the best thing for Los Angeles?’?”
• "Beijing [today] is at least twice as bad as L.A. at its worst.” 
• "This sounds less like a battle than like some kind of macabre party.”
• "You should be ashamed of yourself. No good will ever come of this book.”
• Their father's belongings: his Bible, some photographs, some Christian worship CDs and a little radio. 
• “The city may allow its homeless population to camp on Sand Island, a remote, mostly industrial island far from resorts” 
• "Most of it was eaten, but the crew put the skeleton and leftovers in the freezer."
• "This is the product I’m going to compromise my sense of decency and empathy for?”
• "My ancestors once enslaved your ancestors, and therefore I am physically and metaphysically less graceful than you.”
• "When a Calif man shined a flashlight outside his tent at a homeless camp, he only saw a naked, shivering little boy.”
• "He used to come to my house. He knows my family..And now we find out he wanted to kill us.”
• "A mountain lion attacked a 6-year-old boy..dragging him away before his father and another man fought the animal off."