I spent the better part of this morning reading a paper (as yet unpublished) by Andrew T. Guzman and Katerina Linos (both of Berkeley Law) titled "Human Rights Backsliding" and then attending a talk by the same name (i don't know if i have permission...
My colleague, Katie Gillespie and i have posted a CFP for the AAG Annual Meeting in Tampa, 2014: Economies of Death: Economic logics of killable life and grievable death Organizers: Patricia Lopez (Geography, University of Washington) Kathryn Gillespie (Geography, University of Washington) How and why are certain lives and bodies...
Sometimes, i try to disentangle the relationship of security and migration - 11 years ago, i think writing a bio/anatamo-politics chapter on the international mobility of bodies in relation to health and illness and national security would have been infinitely easier that it is today,...
Someone pointed me to this article today (on Facebook): A Carefully Crafted F**k You, Nathan Schneider interviews Judith Butler Although two and a half years old, it's well-timed to the RNC (which i'm listening to Mitt Romney right now...
I'm listening to the live coverage of the announcement by Gov. Mitt Romney of his running mate, Paul Ryan of Wisconsin. It's accidental, really - i've taken up listening to NPR every morning since moving to DC to fill the empty space of silence that...