Janet McIntosh
@janetmc6
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Professor of Anthro, Brandeis U. Co-editor (w Norma Mendoza-Denton) of Language in the Trump Era; author of two ethnographies about inequality in East Africa.
Joined October 2014
Review: Anthropological Linguistics, Sociolinguistics: Janet McIntosh (2025): SUMMARY Janet McIntosh’s Kill Talk: Language and Military Necropolitics explores how language sustains the moral, psychological, and political structures of modern warfare.… https://t.co/EgmFL8spei
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“The patches reduce the Houthis to the status of a not-quite-human, semi-alien Other. So the enemy is given quasi-racialized and subhuman status, which makes it easier to kill them,” @janetmc6 told @theintercept.
A photo of the "Houthi Hunting Club" patch — which disappeared from the Pentagon's website — shows how the U.S. dehumanizes its enemies.
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America's Shadow War in Yemen Has Its Own Racist Military Swag https://t.co/FN3AjrEkBX by @nickturse
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A photo of the “Houthi Hunting Club” patch — which disappeared from the Pentagon’s website — shows how the U.S. dehumanizes its enemies.
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Veterans invited: a conversation with James Yee, the Guantanamo Bay chaplain who reported prisoner abuse and was accused of spying for Al Qaeda. Also poetry and performance by the inimitable Jan Barry and Jenny Pacanowski.
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We condemn this latest episode of senseless violence and reiterate our call for an immediate ceasefire to prevent more deaths across the Strip. Enough is enough!
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📢 We call for the unequivocal protection of all medical facilities, staff and civilians across the Gaza Strip.
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With great pleasure, we present the opening publication of the Journal of Right-Wing Studies, our "Issue Zero." With this issue, the journal is born. Many thanks! https://t.co/rsN4e5BFWi
@UCBerkeley @CasMudde @TerriGivens @Ahmed1Hilal ....and more. Please share far and wide!
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*Thank you*, Kennedy. That is an honor.
Three books I had to buy coming out of my anthropology course: 1). There’s No More Haiti by Greg Beckett. 2). The Land of Open Graves by Jason De Leon. 3. Unsettled by Janet Mcintosh. All heavy, all beautiful and needed.
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‘Because it's easier to kill that way’: Dehumanizing epithets, militarized subjectivity, and American necropolitics
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‘Because it's easier to kill that way’: Dehumanizing epithets, militarized subjectivity, and American necropolitics - Volume 50 Issue 4
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“Through such repeated associations, the phrase “Let’s Go Brandon” becomes saturated with the notion that the right wing is—or will be—in combat with an existential enemy.” Janet McIntosh (@janetmc6) on the mutable power of semiotic peekaboo. https://t.co/M7TkF9lZym
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On the mutable power of semiotic peekaboo.
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Incisive comments on the 'Let's Go Brandon' slogan currently circulating amongst the right in the US: "the mutable power of semiotic peekaboo" by @JanetMc6 in @news4anthros by @AmericanAnthro
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Trump is now overtly aligning himself with QAnon. Here are some reasons why that group makes some folks feel powerful:
rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
QAnon's promotion of Donald Trump and conspiracy theories is well known, yet almost no analysis has focused on the cryptic writing style in Q's online postings, or ‘Q-drops’. This essay focuses on...
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Another fantastic dissertation: Houman Oliaei, on the politics of recognition among displaced Yezidis of Iraqi Kurdistan. Incredible, improbable fieldwork, great writing. (@ElizabethCDunn says best diss she's seen in 10 years.) Book contract! 🥇
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Our guest today, @normamd8 joins is to discuss her book, “Language in the Trump Era, Scandals and Emergencies.” Next, we welcome with acclaimed speak and author, @drdravonjames to talk about her latest book, “Freedom Is Your Birthright.”#DeborahKobyltLIVE @ZaraKobylt
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Congrats to the brilliant Doug Bafford as he joins the ranks of our recent PhDs such as @Manigarm, @AmyHanes7, Olivia Spalletta…🏆📚 Fascinating material on e.g. conservative evangelical anti-racism (!) in South Africa. Thanks to @Dpremawardhana! @anitahannig @BrandeisGSAS
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Today we launch! THE DAY I DIE: THE UNTOLD STORY OF ASSISTED DYING IN AMERICA is **out**. Feeling beyond grateful and indebted to all the people who helped shape this book. Off into the world you go.
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.@NEHgov recently announced $24.7 Million for 208 #humanities projects nationwide including @NEDCCInfo, @Northeastern, Ellen Cushman, Anya Bernstein, @icivics, Kate Brown, @MIT, Present and Fellows of Harvard College, Wai-Yee Li, @FraminghamU and Janet McIntosh.
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