Sunday Reading

ReclaimUC:

• At some other Berkeley
• UC still thinks we're too stupid to appreciate its logo
• "Berkeley has mortgaged itself in perpetuity to the success its football team."
• MOOCs and anti-MOOCs
• Massively Open Online Colonialism
• The school-to-prison pipeline is targeting your child
• The solution to unemployment isn't better-trained workers
• The discomfort zone
• When professors oppose unions
• Student debt climbs for fifth year in a row
• Student protests in UK are changing tack—and facing heavy police repression
• Liberal fascism
• We don't need permission to protest
• The public, the police, and the rediscovery of hate

Bint Battuta:

• The reality of Muslim rule in medieval India
• The territorial history of Sinai
• The modernisation of ayurveda
• Rabindranath Tagore and the invention of science in India
• Alchemy and the Ottoman world
• The copper plates from Kollam and the medieval Indian Ocean world
• Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore (1898)
• "No Gold" marriages: The politics of caste/class and gender
• The Bohra of Yemen
• The Turkmen of Lebanon
• The Lebanese of New South Wales
• The Armenians of Burma
• The Punjabis of Kenya
• Tahera Aanchawan on growing up Pakistani-Ugandan
• Sarmad, 17th-century Jewish Sufi
• Nehemia Mota, 16th-century Cochin Kabbalist
• Mirza Abu’l Hasan Khan, 19th-century London celebrity
• Haji Sahib, Pakistani truck artist
• Lebanese advertising banners made into Syrian shelters
• Nelson Mandela’s military training in Morocco in 1962

Karen Gregory:

• “As a nine year old, I didn’t think that Mrs. Azam looked much like a fortune-teller”
• “A tardigrade can survive without food or water”
• DEBT SERVITUDE, SERVICE WORK, OIKOS
• The “Value of the Future”
• Cyberlibertarians’ Digital Deletion of the Left
• The Collective Weight of Contingency
• REALISING THE CO-OPERATIVE UNIVERSITY
• “I want my daughter back”
• Unarmed Man Charged with Shooting
• “It’s certainly a scary power that the State Department is asserting here”
• “The federal government lacks the exclusive right of possession”
• ASA Resolution on Academic Boycott of Israel
• “Almost Human: How Robots, Race and Neoliberalism killed Detroit and what it Means for You”
• “Remembering Jose Munoz”
• When Profs Oppose Unions
• “And a lot of powerful people think colleges should act more like businesses.” 
• "Because like all the women in my family she is a witch".
• “It is merely one rotten brick within this great sub-celestial City of Shit”

Kerim Friedman:

• Women's Vigilantism in India: A Case Study of the Pink Sari Gang [PDF]
• Chart of the Week: How South Africa changed, and didn’t, over Mandela’s lifetime
• When Professors Oppose Grad Student Unions
• Free Mandela (From the Prison of Fantasy)!
• In Bangladesh, Hijras now a separate gender
• Pets in the academic workplace
• New insights into gendered brain wiring, or a perfect case study in neurosexism?
• The solution to unemployment isn’t better-trained workers
• Obama’s Anti-Politics and the Affordable Care Act
• Slipping the biosphere a 'roofie'
• Israel’s Bedouin Face Mass Displacement

Kitabet:

• “Landscape writing as a fundamental noticing.”
• Public Domain Texts in Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn
• “A vast gulf separates the heroic masculinity of Indian cinema from most lived male experience.”
• Sex and the Single Restoration Scientist
• “Teaching what people would rather not learn is especially tough if you are a woman or a minority professor.”
• The AKP and the Peace Process
• “Opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose-noun.”
• A Switch in Time
• Little Lagos in Big China
• In Defence of [Writing] Bad Sex
• When Professors Oppose Students’ Unions
• On the 96th Anniversary of the Halifax Explosion

 

On Mandela:

• The Robben Island Shakespeare, signed by 34 political prisoners from 1975-78.
•  “I am the first accused.”
• “You were wrong then and now because you won’t let yourself see a Mandela. But also because you think that the privilege of making a Mandela belongs to the empire.”
•  “If the island’s physical distance is a little greater now, its moral distance is not.”

Frank Pasquale:

• Inequality hurts growth via asset bubbles and financial-market instability.
• Modern wealth based on cheap leverage.
• New Yorker has cure for insomnia.
• Russia's big export: homophobic nationalism.
• The rap on anhedonia.
• Algo alteration alert.
• What's driving economic research?
• Why many billionaires hate Obamacare.
• Horatio Methuselah: If you save $29,000 a year, it will take you 34,482 years to save a billion dollars. But then you can buy 1,000 Maybach Landaulets & post a belfie.

Nathan Deuel:

• "The boy couldn't believe his luck."
• "He said they enjoyed 'the novelty' of blowing them up in bonfires or in the woods."
• “Wrote headline tweets..listened to interviews for quotes”; “Got a retweet from Lupe Fiasco (rapper).”
• "So I'll have a rule -- cats are out, sloths are in, focus on sloths because that's going to be your meal ticket."
• "The wealthy motorists are separated from mere mortals both physically - by steel and glass - and metaphorically"
• "There’s a..problem with a city ruled by a tiny clan where most of the workers have no rights..They don’t care whether people stick around."
• "When the waters come in, the first waves will dissolve the salt and reduce these great glass cities to dust."
• "A fine red powder coats Dena Zepeda's silver Nissan and, when she's outside, collects in her ears."
• "The company hung a pair of banners in front of its plant: 'No Tear Gas Made Here.'"
• "This Is What It Looks Like at the Center of America."