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Report submitted by Benjamin Fogel. Photo by Timothy Gabb.
October 15th marked the official “Occupy Everywhere” day in in 952 cities located in 82 countries. The message even reached my sleepy university town of Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. I joined a group of my fellow students and marched [...]
Above is a view of Luxembourg City, where I’ll be living for the rest of 2011, while I’m working at the LIS Cross-National Data Center. The glass buildings looming in the distance are the banking district of Kirschberg, with a medieval wall running in front of them; I think this captures the [...]
Submitted by Jordan S. Carroll.
On Friday, I attended the first General Assembly for Occupy Davis, CA. After reading reports about Occupy Wall Street for weeks, I wasn’t surprised to quickly run into a conspiracy theorist. He was an older gentleman in a hoodie who seemed eager to suggest that we coordinate with other organizations [...]
This Monday, the eviction of hundreds of Travelers, or Gypsies, camped at Dale Farm, in Essex was halted in the High Court. The eighty or more families have been on the site for more than ten years, on land they bought. The Council says that the travelers have broken England’s Town [...]
Today, of course, isn’t the real labor day, merely a fake American version with origins in the machinations of anti-labor politicians.
Still, we can celebrate any day that’s a holiday. It may be true, as this New York Times op-ed says, that “Labor Day is meant to be a celebration of work.” But [...]
I’ve been making an effort to read and engage more with blogs written by women, because the recent online conversations I’ve been involved with have been oppressively dude-heavy. I’ve also been meaning to write about gaming, because I think people who love games and take them seriously should be out of the closet [...]
Sometimes, I read a couple of apparently unrelated blog posts in quick succession, and immediately spot a connection between them. I’m never sure whether I’m being insightful, or just giving in to the incorrigible tendency of the primate homo sapiens to find patterns in everything. Anyway, take this for what you will.
Kevin Drum [...]
I just finished reading a book for review, Michelle Ann Abate’s Raising Your Kids Right: Children’s Literature and American Political Conservatism (which I wrote about, in relation to the study of children’s literature, here). In Abate’s conclusion, she ponders the future of the conservative movement in relation to the grassroots enthusiasm generated by John [...]
I’m planning on writing a belated critique of Jodi Dean’s “Communist Horizon” lecture in the next day or so. Readers might want to familiarize themselves with the material in the meantime. Or you can just trust your heart and take what I say at face value.
Blurb from Dean’s original lecture:
Focusing on [...]
NPR has a nice little feature on parental leave policy in Sweden. This relates to my own research on working time, and I think parental leave is a particularly interesting case when it comes to the politics and sociology of time. That’s because I’ve come around to thinking – partly under the [...]
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