Today’s PhD school, Tracing Colonialism and Orientalism in Social and Political Thought, consisted of an introductory talk by Engin Isin, followed by a talk from Ian Almond, referencing his book, The New Orientalists: Postmodern Representations of Islam from Foucault to Baudrillard (London: I.B. Tauris, 2007)....
Over the past 15+ years, academics and researchers have written extensively about the rolling back of the state (Atkinson, 1999; Colás, 2005; Essex, 2008; Jessop, 2002; Kelsey, 1993; Koffman & Raghuram, 2009; Kiely, 2005; Peck, 2002; Sothern, 2005; Sparke, 2005). But most (all?) of these...
It is one thing to hold to an ideology that is antithetical to recognizing and acting within a relational frame of being in the world and to simply excusing poor choices as acting within the status quo. I bring this up for a few different...
I just read the most beautiful piece called Pinto Beans, Wall Street and Me at JoNubian. I also hold a bit of disdain for the Occupy movement, but i have also been disappointed in the claims against it. I've been equally perturbed by its whiteness and yet...
I have finally fleshed out the research agenda: Citizenship has been at the fore of political struggles since before the Haitian Revolution in Saint Domingue, and later Haiti. Beginning with the tightening of colonial citizenship conferral on people of color in 1769, followed by the struggles...