What We're Reading This Week
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Daniel LoPreto, Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)
Sa’ed Atshan, "The Anthropological Rise of Palestine," Journal of Palestine Studies
Provides a comprehensive bibliography of contemporary anthropological publications related to Palestine and argues that this research can provide Palestinians with intellectual tools for discursive enfranchisement.
Christopher Zambakari, "Mission to Civilise: The French West African Federation," The African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD)
Analyzes the French imperial project in Africa and explores the methodology of rule and governance that occurred in the region.
Jessica Corredor Villamil and Meghan Morris, "Pandemic Inequality: Civil Society Narratives from the Global South," Dejusticia
Examines the pandemic through the lens of inequality and asks: how does our analysis change when studying the perspective of Lahore or Abuja as compared to London or San Francisco?
Joseph Satish, University of Hyderabad
Alex Haagaard, “Complicating Disability: On the Invisibilization of Chronic Illness throughout History”, Platypus: The CASTAC Blog
The author contends that genealogical study of clinical invisibility is necessary to the deconstruction of disability and that its neglect within critical disability studies and philosophy of disability derives from and reinforces the violence of the clinical gaze.
Itty Abraham, “As a Historian of the Nuclear Program, I Can Only Laugh at the Howlers in Rocket Boys”, The Wire
The author deconstructs a popular web series based on the Indian nuclear program, arguing that it gets so much wrong, not only factually but also in the way it projects today’s hyper-nationalistic narrative.
Steven Gonzalez Monserrate, “The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud”, The MIT Press Reader
Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate draws on five years of research and ethnographic fieldwork in server farms to illustrate some of the diverse environmental impacts of data storage.
Collin Bernard, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, "What is fueling our century's global "disorder"", The Nation
This is an interview by Steinmetz-Jenkins with Hellen Thompson about her new book Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century which explores the nature of the contemporary world and how we got here.
Emily Callaci, "Care Work in a Wageless World", Boston Review
Emily Callaci provides an intellectual history of Selma James and the Wages for Housework movement that makes connections to the contemporary moment.
Francine Hirsh, "Putin's Memory Laws Set the Stage for his War in Ukraine", Lawfare
In this article, Fracine Hirsh provides an analysis of Putin's use of Soviet history and the history of its role in the Second World War in preparing the ground for the invasion of Ukraine.