Sunday Reading

Actually Aisha:

• There's no place for even a "good" Muslim in India's history.
• A Map of the World's Most Superlative Trees
• Fat Activism, Class and the Left.
• Adrienne Rich's Poetic Transformations
• JLF Brings 'Exotic' India To Your Doorstep--Who Pays The Price?
• Of Oz The Wizard
• How to be a girl by Yasmeen Ismail
• The Winged Histories, by Sofia Samatar 
• Morality & Misery: The Meaning of Drone Operator PTSD
• Eye in the Sky: drones, the (human) ticking-time bomb scenario, and law's inhumanity
• "there is no monstrous act that isn't in all of us"
• so how did a song about mass violence and national trauma win Eurovision 2016?
• Claiming Narratives, Retelling History: Bringing Southeast Asian Steampunk to the World Stage
• Afro-pessimism and the End of Redemption

Kerim Friedman:

• Performance of Taiwanese History
• Our fellow animals seem like us
• Review of Bourdieu's On the State
• Tribals worst sufferers of displacement
• Freedom Archives Search Engine
• High paid university presidents = high student debt
• The Faux Fracas in Nevada
• Archaeology of the Undead
• Bernie Has Nothing on Hillary
• The TSA is a waste of money
• Obama Was Mistaken About #NoRice
• Helping students cheat for revenge
• Duterte vows mass killings

Reclaim UC:

• University title generator
• The horrifying reality of the academic job market
• Gender bias in academe: an annotated bibliography
• It's the data, stupid: what Elsevier's purchase SSRN also means
• The commencement speaker racket
• "When transferable skills come to dominate education and employment above all others, we can be sure that what is really being taught is the ability to be transferable."
• Online school enriches affiliated companies if not its students
• Some truly dystopian tracking in California high schools
• The privatization of childhood play
• Surplus rebellions
• Rasquache as a form-of-life
• "Can we think without law—force and ideology—altogether, or are we forever bound to be constituted, and constitute ourselves, as good subjects who avoid punishment or bad ones who do not?"
• Decolonization is not a metaphor

Aljavieera:

• "Under the pressures of accelerating urbanization and a shift toward free-market ideology, food markets were deregulated in the 1840s, pushing food access from the public to the private domain." GIS and food access in 19th century New York (via Alex Tarr).
• "(...)a history of a project, an attempt to write a history of the History of Sexuality" – Stuart Elden on his new intellectual histories of Foucault's works
• “This debt isn’t ours and it isn’t just. Continuing to pay it is only going to deepen this crisis” – students in Puerto Rico
• W.A.G.E.’s open letter to New Museum (via Ian Paul)

Kitabet:

• Adrienne Rich’s Poetic Transformations
• “Runaway advertisements were essentially wanted posters for people whose crime was pursuing their own freedom, and slaveholders provided as much detail about those people as possible in order to maximize the chances for recapture.”
• The Appropriate Weight of Grief
• Unearthing the Secrets of New York’s Mass Graves
• “Living alone as a woman is not just a luxury but a refusal to bend into the shape of patriarchal assumption and expectation.”
• Chronicle of a (Verizon) Strike
• Mughals in Seattle—Alternate History Art
• Mary Anning and the Flying Dragon
• Toward an Anthropology of Landmines: Rogue Infrastructure and Military Waste in the Korean DMZ
• "Only one note went into Pogge’s permanent record. It was for misuse of Yale stationery."