Sunday Reading

Jacqui Shine:

• Turns out he never jumped on that couch after all 
• ... but you have to be ready for that publicity game.
• The passion (?) of Barbara Ehrenreich 
• "It is physically and emotionally draining to be called upon to prove that these systems of power exist. "
• The Erasure of Maya Angelou's Sex Work History
• Who Killed Lois Duncan's Daughter?
• Ohhhhh my god this is magisterial, Monica Lewinsky kills it
• "If El Niño calls while you are in a meeting, have your assistant tell him that Mommy's busy, and you'll call him back just as soon as you make landfall."
• New Orleans hands its entire school system over to charter operators

 

Kerim Friedman:

• Shoddy microcredit impact reporting in Economist
• College radio is dying — and we need to save it
• Resignations threat over Taylor & Francis ‘censorship’
• Revolutionary marxism - a lesson through the medium of board games
• High Stakes Criticism: The Case for Academic Gossip
• On Nicholas Wade and the blurring of boundaries between science and fantasy
• Anti-American Boardgame
• Nicholas Wade’s troublesome approach to scientific critiques
• Rethinking Philippine history: The Ifugao
• The Sympathetic Spy Downstairs
• Tibet's 7 Most Endangered Languages
• Caste and Gender
• The life of Eleanor Marx, the mother of socialist feminism

/kaw·re?d?/:

• Driven by Facebook Rumors, Violent Mob Murders Brazilian Woman
• Media, Activism & Society of the Spectacle
• Angela Davis and Jadaliyya Co-Editor Noura Erakat on Mass Incarceration in the United States and Palestine 
• An American Passion for Tyrants
• The Sexual Politics of Veganism
• The Rise of the Sheikha
• The CIA as Global Killer
• The Good, the Bad, and the White Man's Mexico Novel 
• Sexism, Lies and Videotape Imperil Women's Privacy

Bint Battuta:

• Protestant critiques of Hinduism in 19th-century India
• Community & belonging in Indian Jewish literature
• Mumbai’s Parsis - crematorium vs. Towers of Silence
• Historical portraits of Africans in India
• Sanskrit Manuscripts Project
• Aligarh Muslim University (1983)
• What is a mosque?
• Impresarios of Islam in America & Japan
• Islam & travel in the Middle Ages
• Cuban architecture's Islamic influences
• The Physicians of Jundishapur
• The tribulations of a 17th-century Arabist
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• Rana Kabbani on her life with Mahmoud Darwish
• The late Patrick Seale & his relationship with Syria
• Paul Bowles à Tanger
• On Paul Nizan's 1931 book Aden, Arabie
• Talk by Hamid Dabashi
• Romeyka, a Greek dialect spoken in Turkey
• Why Turkey Will Never Become A Tourist Destination
• In praise of big fat narrative histories
• "In his third work, Mr Happy, Hargreaves takes us on a Jungian journey to the integrated self"

Frank Pasquale:

• Civil disobedience & political disobedience as risk.
• A vision of redistribution, from Palo Alto to St. Petersburg.
• Your Facebook profile may determine your credit score.
• Potemkin regulator seeks village.
• More profitable to ration present internet access than to invest in more.
• The future of regulation: merely recognize there is a problem.

Kitabet:

• Architecture as Disaster: Business as Usual
• “I described what I was doing as ‘desearch’ to distinguish it from its more purposeful relative, research.”
• The Ethnographic Shooting Ratio
• “When I grow up I wanna be just like Yuri Kochiyama”
•  “Historically, Americans have always been putting people behind walls.” [pdf]
• “An Anti-Nominalist Book”: Eduardo Kohn on How Forests Think
• Turkey’s New Paramilitaries: Trust Teams
• “When this case goes up for appeal, the cold transcript will not reflect that everyone in the courtroom was standing, and that record will not reflect that there are a number of people in the courtroom with tears in their eyes.”
• The Bizarre Secret of London’s Buried Diggers
• Where Be Monsters? The Daedalus Sea Serpent and the War for Credibility
• Underneath the (Indian) Census
• High Stakes Criticism: The Case for Academic Gossip
• “The way Thelma laughs is not after her sentences, like punctuation, but all the way through them, like the Clark Fork River out back, rolling by big and slow with sunlight on it.”
• Discomfort Architecture

Regardless:

• Right-wingers with a left-wing guise
• Violence on the Body. A manual for the French police escorting "illegal" immigrants
• DJ Ushka on music, migrations, and cultural appropriation
• *turns into a wolf and snuggles your boobs*
• De-chiefing
• How an athlete's coming out turned into a PR war
• What happened to Delonte West?
• Allies, Friends, and the Value of Utopian Visions
• The Criminalization of the Black Woman
• Draft Manifesto for a Social Materialist Psychology of Distress
• Nymphomaniac: Sex Against Gender

Reclaim UC:

• The privatization of special education
• In their silence, Israeli academics collude with the occupation
• Suspension rates fall, but have suspensions really become rarer?
• Tech transfer and the privatization of the public university
• British universities turn to capital markets
• Towards a new community of scholars
• Culture of misogyny in Isla Vista
• "Gun control won't fix our problem. Neither will doctors."
• The white teachers I wish I never had
• "The notion that young people can seek and find shelter from a bad economy by staying in school is a myth."
• Why Muni workers are feeling sick
• Golden Dawn: Greece and the Cold War
• "Despite being against the monarchy, I am more against our leaders."
• "[E]ven white anti-racist consciousness can be a mechanism for reinforcing white supremacy."

Jacob Remes:

• “On behalf of the Jewish people, are you now or have you ever been a signatory to a boycott of Israel?”
• "Judaism is not owned by these self-appointed arbiters of Jewish propriety; it belongs to all of us."
• What the Foreign & Commonwealth Office is Hiding in its Secret Archive
• The case for more academic gossip
• Technocratic foreign aid and human rights
• “The poor academic performances of students, as well as their loss of interest in learning...is a phenomenon stemming from labor problems."
• “The recruiting process often appeals most to the terrified and insecure.”
• What a union will get you

Nathan Deuel:

• "Today, there is none of that molten rage."
• "He stood erect, and his lines were long and clean."
• "A recent photo of the American shows him holding a cat."