Sunday Reading

Karen Gregory:

• Food Workers, Janitors Walk Out on US Senate
• The Invented History of the 'Factory Model of Education'
• Contingency and Gender 
• Love Song for a Neoliberal University: StarbucksU
• Writing and Dying
• Of Migrants, Murder, and Historical Myopia
• Do You Understand that Your Baby Goes Aways and Never Comes Back?
• Policy Debate in the Age of Neoliberalism
• Apocalypse Never 
• Nobody Famous
• Uisce Beatha: A Mulholland Bestiary
• Mostly Automatic: Humanity at the Edge of Agency and Ethics
• The Corrosive Cult of Compliance in Our Schools
• Our Perverse Centrist Patriots: Everything the Media Elite Gets Wrong About American Politics 

Kerim Friedman:

• Why Not Adjunct Administrators Instead of Adjunct Instructors? It Makes Far More Sense
• What Obama’s Refusal to Acknowledge the Armenian Genocide Tells Us
• Columbia University Bans Workers From Speaking Spanish
• #BlackLivesMatter, the international papal edition
• What’s really important about the arizona state MOOC announcement
• Neoliberalism, Ethnocentrism, and Taiwanese Independence
• Chinese Academy of Social Sciences throwing shade at The New Qing History
• Who Subsidizes Restaurant Workers' Pitiful Wages? You Do
• A Letter to the Humanities: DH Will Not Save You
• Why Anthropologists Should Embrace BDS

 

Reclaim UC:

• In memory of Chris Chitty
• "So edX and Arizona State are gonna offer MOOCs for credit…"
• The corporatization is coming from inside the house
• "The declines in state funding are real. Real, too, are the explosive growth of the administrative class and the supreme fungibility (and, thus, desirability) of tuition dollars vs. other forms of university revenue."
• The invented history of "the factory model of education"
• Why we don't read or write about education
• Democratically controlled, co-operative higher education
• On the recent upswing of student protest in Chile

Bint Battutta:

• Turning King to Messiah: The Islamic King in Central Asia and India
• Central Asians and the Ottoman Empire
• The influence of Persian prose style on Ottoman historiography
• Historians of the Ottoman Empire
• Revolutionary Fallout: How the Young Turks went from Carnegie Hall to the collapse of the Ottoman Empire
• The Early History of Arabic Printing in Europe
• The State of Comparative Literature - and Arabic
• Arabic and the Monopoly of Theory
• The possible Proto-Semitic roots of various British place names
• Accounts of Yogis in Arabic and Persian Historical and Travel Texts
• Religious Autobiography in Pre-Colonial South Asia
• Paper, pens and power between empires in north India, 1750–1850
• Wagah – the daily ceremony at the India-Pakistan border
• Majalat: The Art of Arab Comics

Jacob Remes:

• The science of the Nepal earthquake
• September 2011: "Himalayan quake a wake-up call for unprepared S.Asia"
• Inside the Republic Windows and Doors sit-down strike [radio 22:00]
• "As Fordism worshiped efficiency, the digital ideology worships the sharing of information."
• Empire, white supremacy, and unmournable bodies
• "A reform that begins with the officer on the beat is not reform at all."
• Why Did it Take a Sex Scandal to Topple the DEA Chief?
• What's going on in Alberta?
• The Great Lakes in Ojibwe perspective
• Why the Ferguson QuikTrip should have been preserved
• Thomas Jefferson's chart of the vegetables at the DC market

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