Starting points
- George Ciccarello-Maher: #LaSalida? Venezuela at a Crossroads
- David Smilde: Q-and-A About Venezuelan Crisis
- In the business of death: a Venezuelan photo essay
Bolivarian Twitterpolitics
- Borrowed Images
- The Revolution Will Be Tweeted (the inevitable lede)
Musical Militancy
- Carta de Rubén Blades a Nicolás Maduro
- Nicolás Maduro responde a Ruben Bladés (y muestra su camiseta de Lenin)
- Jorge Drexler publica carta de su prima venezolana
Social Geographies of Protest
- Francisco Toro: Spoiler Alert
- Las protestas vistas desde los barrios pobres (y chavistas)
- Anticiudadano: Sobre el 23 de enero, bastión del chavismo
- Margarita López Maya: Los días en que la calle pisoteó el carisma
- Luis Vicente León: Los días que vienen
- Solitary in Iran Nearly Broke Me. Then I Went Inside America's Prisons.
- NSF Report Flawed; Americans Do Not Believe Astrology is Scientific
- A cartographic history of why North, not East or South, is up
- Hegemony begins in the workplace
- I Crashed a Wall Street Secret Society
- Online Archive of a Human Zoos
- Debunking the myth of Kitty Genovese
- “Last Breath is described as a series of ‘unofficial pre-demolition celebrations.’”
- Doing Anthropology in Public
- The War on Bread
- “I want to consider what is missing from accounts of Cavafy and cosmopolitanism that focus on public history, rather than the more private experience of reading poems.”
- Who’s Afraid of Ruins?
- Architectural Fictions: Renderings, Rats, and the Virtualization of Urban Space [pdf]
- “The most evocative images in #SANDY disrupt a central convention of disaster photography.”
- Impossible Cities
- A Dictator’s Guide to Urban Design
- “I live in a set in an Oxford college and have a low tightrope strung across my study.”
- What’s Happening in Turkey?
- Bathing in the Bosphorus
- “Two articles discuss the writing of Afrikaans in Arabic script, which – hard as it may seem to believe – predates its writing in Latin script.”
- David Harvey’s “Reading Marx’s Capital” in 38 Languages
- How Hard Has Your Zip Code Shaken?
- “What we know, in this post-Robert Moses era, is that no matter how many roads you build, they always reach their maximum capacity.”
- Moral Panics, Sex Panics, and the Production of a Lebanese Nation
- Rights of Return: Spain, Jews, and the Palestinians
- “What does it mean to come to the Maidan?”
- UC endowment has worst investment returns among largest US college funds
- Academic freedom with violence
- Securitization and the university
- What comes after the public university?
- The dark power of fraternities
- Upton Sinclair on college presidents
- Contextualizing the UIC strike
- "Through workplace reappropriation I was able to pay a year’s worth of university tuition fees…"
- The academic writing thing
- The awfulness of Pablo Neruda
- "Another dubious first for America: We now employ as many private security guards as high school teachers."
- Nice unions finish last
- "[P]ower doesn’t come from friendly campaigns and negotiating with management."
- The testing ground for the new surveillance: Oakland, CA
- Disaster communism
- Jobs of the future: guard labor and grooming labor.
- For every dollar of investment it directs, the financial sector costs forty-five cents.
- Who will control geoengineering?
- Bond kingpin calls China "mystery meat."
Banks cash in on mass poverty. - Market freedom: boss watches you all the time.
- Libertarians acknowledge merits of Canadian banking system.
- Author gets $12K; app'er gets $6,500,000,000
- Google is the new Exxon, quite figuratively.
- What financialization means.
- The 1% took 68% of all personal income growth between 1993 and 2012.
- Drone-cop on the way.
- Qatif and the Gulf on maps from the Renaissance to the Cold War
- Bombay Place-Names and Street-Names (1917)
- A visit to the Imamwada Road in Mumbai
- The 2002 Gujarat riots from a Jewish Indian’s perspective
- A legend about Kerala's monsoons
- 1770 recipe "To make a currey the Indian way"
- A 17th-century Bengal colcha commissioned by the Portuguese
- Some digital resources for Ottoman and Turkish history
- Jalal Al-e Ahmad’s trip to Israel in 1964
- Preserving the Syriac language in Iraq
- A Farewell to ?: Living Language Reform in Turkey
- 1918 Yiddish book for learning Palestinian Arabic
- The various words used for "fear" in the Qur'an
- The English expressions coined in WW1
- Indian Faces of the Great War
- US Propaganda in Post-WW2 Bahrain
- Britain's first black community
- Religion in European migration studies
- Soviet orientalism and politics in Central Asia
- "She picked me up in a taxi on Rue Jacob ..'Literature is no more and nothing less than a matter of life and death.' "
- "If this had happened in Washington, the whole place would have been closed."
- "The next morning my aunt called a doctor. A bit pointless, I thought, I will kill myself soon."
- "Putting on an awkward rhinoceros horn is more comfortable than risking losing everything in the name of freedom."
- "Dean does believe, however, that she could be responsible for the murder of perhaps one other person."
- "No one comes here anymore for coffee because they are afraid."
- "Anyone hawking that sort of revolution has never seen what socialism produced in the suburbs of Moscow."
- "It was only after that decree that many people in Lebanon realized they had athletes competing at the Winter Games."
- “Packs of Chihuahuas running loose in Phoenix.”
- MTA Suspends Plan to Sweep Out Homeless / NYPD still need monitoring
- “Vacated” is a walking tour of the changing urban landscape during the Bloomberg administration.
- "Black struggles for freedom created an epistemological crisis for the whole country"
- Remembering Stuart Hall
- "I pointed out recently on Facebook that all the speakers for a Gender Studies conference were white."
- "What are you left with, then, when you walk away from the work?"
- Who should get promoted?
- Keep Calm and Do Anthropology
- Spatial Feminism
- Revisiting the voice in media and as medium
- "My current research looks at the epistemological transformation of the poltergeist phenomenon that took place after the Second World War"
- Living Labor: Marxism and Performance
- "We are all threatened by the prospect of our imminent obsolescence."
- "New Deal dreams did not immediately yield sprawling democratically-minded institutions."
- "Lost amid the current worries over the future of public sector bargaining is what’s already gone missing"
- Anatomy of the Deep State
- 18,520 ghost stories
- Observantly Jewish and anti-Israel
- A Venezuela protest primer
- Looking for fascists in Kyiv
- Canada's new election bill
- Radical credit
- A Piven and Cloward Strategy for the Labor Movement?
- An executive pay cap for a college
- Comparing massive wealth over the longue duree
- "The job of a professor is not the same as 'being smart.'"
- From Ellen DeGeneres to Ellen Page, or why celebrity comings-out still matter
- Moses Asch: A Stubborn Man