by Lalit Batra, University of Minnesota In her much-publicized address to the joint session of the parliament the President of India, Pratibha Patil, recently declared her government’s intention to...
Read More
Sewers and Sewerage Workers in India
Intervention – Past is present: Settler colonialism in Palestine
by Omar Jabary Salamanca (Ghent University), Mezna Qato (University of Oxford), Kareem Rabie (City University of New York) and Sobhi Samour (School of Oriental and African Studies, London) This is...
Read More
Leaning into the blues epistemology
by Rachel Brahinsky, UC Berkeley There was a terrific session at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers this year that looked at the life and work of Clyde Adrian Woods, a...
Read More
Author interview – Nicky Gregson and colleagues speak about ‘Building bridges through performance and decision-making’
“…left-wing academics…never test themselves against the market…no matter how much they write for each other, they never find themselves writing for anyone else” (Alan Wolfe, 1996: 25 -...
Read More
Kony 2012: “The rules have changed”
by David Meek, University of Georgia On 5 March 2012, the controversial NGO Invisible Children released the latest in their series of mini-documentaries about the plight of child soldiers in Uganda....
Read More
The message
by Christian Anderson, City University of New York Not too long ago, a forwarded message arrived in my inbox. Simply titled ‘2012’, it was addressed to dozens of other people, and I could see...
Read More
This is about our humanity
by Punam Khosla, York University Reflecting on the ‘year of protest’ I am struck by the emphasis of many left commentators. A broad progressive consensus is that capitalist crisis and the...
Read More
Security, scarcity, and the political pipeline
by Sean Gillon, University of Wisconsin - Madison The Keystone XL pipeline proposed by TransCanada Corporation has become a highly politicized economic, energy, and ecological debate. If approved...
Read More