Daragh Grant
@daraghjgrant
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@UChicago | Interests in Political Theory, Social Theory, and History | Also at @daraghjgrant.bsky.social.
Joined July 2017
Anxieties about immigration have been a persistent feature of British politics in the context of imperial decline. But these anxieties were also first produced by imperial adventures. Long before Windrush, the West Indies haunted the English imagination.
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I still feel bad for adding an “h” to Antony Anghie’s name in a bibliography, so I am in no place to cast stones here, but this misnaming of Sybil Crowe in Martti Koskenniemi’s /The Gentle Civilizer of Nations/ might be my new favorite typo.
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This correction is commendable, but I struggle to understand the American impulse to assume that immigrant children are straightforwardly formed by American taxonomies of race and identity. Stuart Hall wrote compellingly about this generational problem of identity.
At first, I cynically assumed that Mamdani checked those boxes on the application to help his chances and did not buy the ideological or self-expressive interpretations, but after reading this in one his father's books, I think one should give him the benefit of the doubt
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I love when “nuance, balance, and a willingness to listen” is the trumpeted position of someone who thinks that just because a government proscribes an organization, it must be the case that it warrants no support or solidarity. The nuance of a bootlicker, I guess.
Enthusiastic yes for the right to protest. Hard no to those expressing support or “solidarity” for a democratically proscribed organisation. I strongly reject the premise of breaching a military base for protest. It’s never a legitimate cause. Damaging RAF planes is an.
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Even Thatcher wasn’t inclined to label people terrorists for engaging in property damage. This Labour government—and the broad parliamentary coalition that supported this prescription—is disgraceful.
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This should be an EVENT! Congratulations @brandonmterry. I look forward to reading and teaching this.
Was sent an advanced reading copy of Brandon Terry’s forthcoming book, which looks to be fantastic: “Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope.A Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement”:
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This line—from the opening vignette to Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s “An Unthinkable History” in Silencing the Past—often seems to be conveniently overlooked by his interpreters in the U.S. Worth recalling it today.
The Mamdani, college admission box-ticking fiasco reminds me a bit of the "birther" fabrications that Trump rode in on: racist, de-authentication of the national status of a political opponent based upon their failed proximity to "ancestral" US blackness (rather than whiteness).
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It’s a peculiar thing about the United States—people here frequently disavow the part the U.S. played in giving original shape to racial taxonomies that are now global in scope, and yet Americans often insist that they ought to have primacy over what racial classifications mean.
Is Columbia allowed to share this info?
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These production photos are by Michael Brosilow. There are still some tickets available if you are in Chicago.
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Saw this in 2013 and was supposed to see it again on the day of lockdown in 2020. Delighted to return to it yesterday at @courtchicago. Timothy Edward Kane’s performance is just spectacular, laying bare the outrage and anguish that continues to flow from our present catastrophes.
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RT @ZohranKMamdani: “Taken together, Mamdani’s responsibly costed economic policies form a coherent agenda that rejects austerity and embra….
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RT @RBReich: .@ZohranKMamdani is standing up to the oligarchy and fighting to make one of America’s most expensive cities affordable for th….
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A position Hall reiterates, powerfully, in the closing minutes of his lecture, “Through the Prism of an Intellectual Life.”
"Let me insist that “the academic” and “the intellectual” are not interchangeable terms: they are not the same thing: they may even be at the opposite ends of the scale.
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If only someone had written a book about this bullshit—of course, it would require that Randy Fine be willing or able to read. There is, thankfully, more hope that voters see through this fog of hate to the value of electing a candidate with real integrity like @ZohranKMamdani.
Zohran Mamdani would do to New York City what Khomeini and Khamenei did to Tehran. We cannot let radical Muslims turn America into a Shiite caliphate.
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RT @EliNorthrup: Sending strength to Zohran who has managed to run a clear-eyed and principled campaign in the face of enormous pressure an….
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