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Ⓐctivist Ⓐnthropology Online PhDs and MAs @ciis_sf Andrej Grubačić, Dept Chair. Books: @pmpressorg 📗 Solidarity w @RojavaUniv
San Francisco
Joined June 2009
From Founding Dept. Chair Andrej Grubačić: "Staughton Lynd passed away early this morning. He was 92, almost 93 years old. He was my friend, comrade, co-author and so many other things. Our friendship has profoundly influenced and transformed my life." 1/2
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Seedkeeper, author, mentor, and founder of Sierra Seeds, Rowen White is a passionate activist for Indigenous seed and food sovereignty.
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Join online or in-person in San Francisco! On Indigenous Seedkeeping and Food Sovereignty https://t.co/NAor7mqzt6 1/2
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Dylan Riley (@DylanRiley6216) on civil society in Trump’s America: ‘However warranted the concern about the Trump administration’s attack on the non-profit sector, much of this commentary suffers from a double confusion…’ https://t.co/ibLx14l14y
newleftreview.org
On civil society.
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What's the opposite of MAHA? Mamadani. Here are some thoughts in the Boston Review on the fight for food as a public good. https://t.co/nZvsV0hxrJ
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"New Social Science should become a social movement for Democratic Civilization" Here an extract from Andrej Grubačić's opening speech at the Academy inauguration in June.
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New online: Internationalist Solidarity at the Port of Genova: A Worker’s Inquiry by Gemma Timpano From the docks of Genova, Collettivo Autonomo di Lavoratori Portuali blockade capital’s war machine with rank and file solidarity as their weapon. https://t.co/i3HuR3dhl6
notesfrombelow.org
by Gemma Timpano // From the docks of Genova to struggles worldwide, dockworkers blockade capital’s war machine with solidarity as their weapon.
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“Latin America had many of the same sociological variables as Spain: a powerful, praetorian Catholic landed class, threatened by militant peasants and modernizing economic nationalists.” New at PB: @GregGrandin & @Alexander_Avina on Latin America. https://t.co/cunvfZS1pn
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The new documentary “Megadoc” reveals the risky freedom of Francis Ford Coppola’s approach to his self-financed political fantasy, “Megalopolis.” “ ‘Megadoc’ is, at heart, a story of liberation,” @tnyfrontrow writes. Read his review.
newyorker.com
Mike Figgis’s documentary reveals the risky freedom of Coppola’s approach to his self-financed political fantasy.
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Lorna Finlayson on the double-speak of ‘improvement’: ‘Under these conditions, often the best we can hope for is that things won’t “improve” too much.’ https://t.co/H90t8O3GDJ
newleftreview.org
On today’s double-speak.
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Owen Hatherley on the leftist avant-garde publisher Rab-Rab Press: 'The books take an oblique approach to revolutionary history and the various attempts at creating a socialist culture, resurrecting it in select fragments.' https://t.co/V8bQOXDivI
newleftreview.org
On Rab-Rab Press.
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Apropos, my letter in this month’s LRB concerning their recent piece.
On the 5th anniversary of his death, David Graeber’s unwilling exile from US academia has a particular salience. This account of what happened in 2005, from The Chronicle of Higher Education, is worth reading in the perspective of 2025. https://t.co/P5CHgO6ndu
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We have this new paper, led by Meghna Goyal, which provides the first global view of inequality in the agri-food system. We find that agricultural production has increasingly shifted to the South, but income is increasingly captured in the North. https://t.co/t8MJsy1yvD
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Capitalism, by fragmenting human existence, creates a void of personal and social meaning. This vacuum, without the fulfillment offered by collective praxis, is subsequently filled by a reactionary political mobilization. By yours truly, @utahvanguard
https://t.co/Pw9pFw5dhS
utahvanguard.medium.com
By David Fields,
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Capital’s new vanguard pursues a planetary project of jurisdictional arbitrage for the rich. Our essay of the week examines the techno-libertarian fantasy of private sovereignty as the endgame of neoliberalism. By Raymond Craib in @LAReviewofBooks
https://t.co/A8YZU9S7ai
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The double register of Cheap Nature #worldecology #capitalocene
Jason Moore: For capitalism, Nature is “cheap”.
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Join an academic department with a distinctive commitment to solidarity with populations and struggle, critiques of capitalist and colonial dominance, and the nation state! Graduate empowered to help build a better world we all know as possible! 2/2
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