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On Adivasi Development and Resistance in India

Existential questions faced by the subaltern

June 9, 2017 • by Aabid Firdausi

Existential questions faced by the subaltern When accepting the 2004 City of Sydney Peace Prize, Arundhati Roy remarked, “there's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.” This quote aptly captures the persecution and repression faced by people marginalized by society’s relentless ...

On Adivasi Development and Resistance in India

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Who Knew Running Yahoo Was So Hard?

Marissa Mayer Takes One for the Team

June 5, 2017 • by Claire Potter

As we begin to think about writing the history of the Age of Trump, my advice is to follow the money. For example, answer this question: how do CEOs make a fortune by killing businesses and putting working and middle class people on the unemployment line? If your answer is "Sending ...

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The Whiskey Rebellion, Political Crisis, and the Sociology of Elite Interpretation

From the early modern to the contemporary USA, part 2

May 10, 2017 • by Isaac Ariail Reed

Among the grievances that fueled the rebels we can include an early modern version of a bailout. Government issued bonds had been used to pay the soldiers in the Continental Army during the revolutionary war. During the economic depression of the 1780s, speculators had bought these up for pennies on ...

The Whiskey Rebellion, Political Crisis, and the Sociology of Elite Interpretation

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Populism as Neoliberalism

On John Smith’s Imperialism in the 21st Century in the Trump Era

May 4, 2017 • by Anonymous

Are neoliberalism and Trump’s populism incompatible? In the scattered debates that have arisen in the wake of his presidential victory, these two somewhat vague terms are contrasted with one another in order to make sense of his rhetoric of protectionism for US manufacturers and labor, to the detriment of immigrant ...

Education

Interview with Dr. Kris Manjapra

On racial, gendered, colonial capitalism (the only kind of capitalism)

April 28, 2017 • by James Cooper

Cooper: I’d like to begin first by asking you to elaborate just a little bit more on your notion of Foucault and his thesis about repression and how it applies in your own work. Manjapra: Foucault was observing that in the 19th century there was a moment of discussion and talk ...

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A Utopia for Money

A visit to the secretive art warehouse at the Singapore airport

April 27, 2017 • by Max Haiven

I have visited money’s utopia: it is not only a utopia for those with money, but a utopia for money itself. Sequestered in the winding roads of an industrial park, next to the airport tarmac of one of Asia’s busiest airports, a mere block away from the garrison of the border ...

Race

Interview with Darrick Hamilton

April 20, 2017 • by Narender Strong

During this semester’s course on Slavery, Race & Capitalism, taught by Professor Julia Ott , we have discussed the voracious nature of capitalism and the precarity it inflicts, disproportionately, upon subaltern groups. From assigned readings on historical and contemporary scholarship, as well as guest lectures, we have explored the ways ...

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On Theorizing Neoliberalism

The Problems and Politics of a Critique

April 20, 2017 • by Bryant William Sculos

In a recent piece for Public Seminar, Jeffery Goldfarb explores the problems of the term and concept of neoliberalism, specifically its inconsistent application by those on the left. He claims that neoliberalism is used to describe a wide range of policy positions from public-private ventures up to the complete deregulation of ...

Reviews

Uncovering Freakonomics Radio

A Review

April 19, 2017 • by Tracy Varites

Freakonomics Radio, a podcast produced by WNYC Studios, explores the “hidden side of everything.” Inspired by the book, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economics Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, written in 2005 by economist Steven D. Levitt and journalist, Stephen J. Dubner, it touches on a range of topics from crime ...

Psyche

Mental Wealth and Hellbeing

Pitting the productive against the human

April 15, 2017 • by Simon Jones

When the Scottish Government announced its ten year strategy on mental health at the end of March, bureaucrats would have known exactly how it would be received. The first draft mapped the next 120 months of life for citizens affected by mental ill health, and ran 12-pages. It was roundly criticized for ...

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Three Futures for the Democratic Party

The Party Beyond Hillary and Bernie

April 13, 2017 • by Macabe Keliher

The electoral defeat of the Democratic Party last November, coupled with a lackluster resistance to Trump and the Republican agenda, has exposed a political party long in decay. Having lost nearly one thousand seats in local and national elections over the past eight years, and then the presidency, the Democratic ...

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Trumpism

How Should the Left Respond?

February 27, 2017 • by David Maddy

The Democratic Party has lost the Presidency, majority control of Congress, and an alarming number of state governorships and legislatures. In contrast, the Republican Party seems poised to ideologically control the remaining branch of federal government through the appointment of a Supreme Court judge. With the Democratic Party flat on ...