Sunday Reading

Kitabet:

• The Book of Job as Community Theater
• Para-Library Science at the NYPL
• A Loaf of Bread, a Dead Child: Turkey’s Protest Cycle
• “Allotted by the government, and based on Geiger readings, the visits are meant to be opportunities for the refugees to reclaim bits of their blasted lives”
• Tohuku Tsunami Maps: Lessons for the Pacific Northwest
• A Fashionable Revolution: Veiling, Morality, and Consumer Culture in Iran
• “objects: researching, illustrating, and mapping incidents in which police officers have mistaken a commonplace object for a weapon, thereby authorizing the use of deadly force.”
• By the Way, Your Home is On Fire
• The Self-Inventions of Modernity 
• “There is an intimacy to archaeological excavation that is rarely captured in our narratives.”
• Haiti’s Shadow Sanitation System
• Historical Crushes
• 'Seni bilen hayran, bilmeyen dusman' or, Why Erdogan Remains so Popular
• A Piece of the Wall

L.D. Burnett:

• How "computer geeks" replaced "computer girls"
• The first stop-action kiss
• My Husband's Stupid Record Collection
• The Cost of Kale: How Foodie Trends Can Hurt Low-Income Families
• Measles is Spreading in Our Largest Cities
• A book I'll buy

Bint Battuta:

• Jinns in post-partition Delhi
• The diverse conceptions of Islamic law
• Beyond religio-secularism
• Preserving the manuscripts of India's Syrian Christians
• Early Arabic Printing: Movable Type & Lithography
• Elaborate titles in an 18th-century Indian manuscript
• A look at the verbal system of Gulf Pidgin Arabic
• Why Gulf Pidgin Arabic is not "broken" Arabic
• British complaints about Americans in the Gulf during WW2
• Lebanese racism and the Syrian body
• Polish émigrés in the Ottoman Empire
• Ibn Battuta on Muslims and Christians in Crimea
• Slavery and manumission in Ottoman Galata
• Karachi's Afro-Pakistani Sheedi community
• Cochin Jewish wedding, 1966
• Munem Wasif's photographs of Old Dhaka
• Death studies and the field of modern Middle East history
• Hasekura Tsunenaga, 17th-century Japanese diplomat
• Colonel Dinshah P. Ghadiali, inventor of the Spectro-Chrome
• The Soviet Book of Tasty and Healthy Food
• "In a Kiev that might as well have existed 1000 years ago"
• On language in Ukraine
• Translating Lorem Ipsum

Reclaim UC:

• UCLA's military research labs and predictive policing
• Remembering the "Compton Cookout," the noose, and their aftermath at UC San Diego
• Collective statement regarding the Feb 13 Day of Action at UC Berkeley
• UC Berkeley's sexual assault problem
• Northeastern University suspends Students for Justice in Palestine
• "It can be easy to forget that the University still functions as a capitalistic machine…"
• "Our educational system is nominally about education, but really about separating kids from each other."
• A long history of gentrification in San Francisco
• A piece of the wall
• Illustrated map of killings by cops claiming they mistook a variety of everyday objects for guns
• Five thoughts on abolishing the Metropolitan Police
• Muerte en Atenco

Jacob Remes:

• First names and messy intimacy in historical writing
• Viral historical images and scholarship
• Are academics who write for popular audiences without pay scabs?
• "You have a garbage soul and you look for garbage...and when you have found garbage...you congratulate yourself."
• "If bankers were to work 9 to 5, they might have to admit that finance is just a job."
• VW, UAW, and the battle for Southern white masculinity
• The Parti Québecois abandons social democracy.
• Visualizing the roughly 2.4 million people incarcerated in the US on any given day
• Disaster Militarism

Frank Pasquale:

• Sweatshop 2.0: the rise of crowdbilking.
• Big Oil's Big Men in private equity.
• Harvesting the sick (or shunning them).
• Questioning the worship of technology.
• Sharing data to stop tax evasion.
• Land grabbers come home.
• Andrew Ross notes that Massachusetts's universal health care did not reduce medical bankruptcies.
• Resisting financialization.
• Flexible workers in Qatar.

Mark Healey:

• Semana (Colombia): De cómo Gustavo Petro pasó de guerrillero a senador a alcalde, para terminar derrotado por buses y basura
• Patrick Iber: How the CIA Bought Juan Rulfo Some Land in the Country

Un año de Papa Francisco:

• Loris Zanatta: Una Larga Lua de Miel
• Sol Prieto: ¿Qué quiso decir el Papa cuando dijo "hagan lío"?
• Horacio Verbitsky: Después de un año, volviendo sobre el pasado del Papa
• Horacio Verbitsky: La retracción de Jalics

Venezuela:

• George Ciccariello-Maher Venezuelan Jacobins
• Willy Mckey: El (hermoso) peligro de las canciones de Alí Primera
• Lisette González: El síndrome de Ana
• Roberto Mata: Los colectivos tienen derecho a matar, yo no: Yubiry, guarimbera
• Luis Vicente León: Las guarimbas y el barranco

Nathan Deuel:

• "It continues to be a tough time to grow kiwis and cauliflower."
• "In the south of the country, residents have started to pray for rain in an ancient ritual called Shish Balli."
• "The more the vines suffer, the better the wine usually."
• "I wouldn't want to be in his Guccis."
• "We love them," says Kremer, about his goats. "The girls just absolutely have a ball with  them. We milk every day."
• "There is still a bus service running between Damascus and Beirut."
• "What was initially thought to be an aircraft tail floating in the Gulf of Thailand was actually 'logs tied together'
• "California is the nation's Salad Bowl, much like the Midwest is its Bread Basket."
• “We’ll keep drilling until we find water."
• "It's not so much about the person, it's about the technology."
• The Orthodox synagogue between a rehab center and an erotic lingerie shop, steps away from medical marijuana clinics

Kerim Friedman:

• Columbia University Fired Two Eminent Public Intellectuals. Here’s Why It Matters.
• China and the Dangers of Debt
• Modinomics: do Narendra Modi's economic claims add up?
• Hartford, Connecticut
• The Oscar Pistorius trial and the fate of language
• Tiger Couple Gets It Wrong on Immigrant Success
• The Right’s Challenge to Chavismo
• Official Book Trailer for 'Taste' — A Novel by Daisy Rockwell
• Six Ways America Is Like a Third-World Country
• Languages that have contributed to English vocabulary over time.
• Imperial Tokyo as a Contact Zone: the Metropolitan Tours of Taiwanese Aborigines, 1897-1941
• 'We did not help the Germans. We had a common enemy'
• Why Is Academic Writing So Beautiful? Notes on Black Feminist Scholarship
• The Arab Gramsci