December 2010
41 posts
I’m working on an article right now relating to problems of incommensurability in communication and deliberative democracy. I just found this neat passage from the prolific anthropologist Clifford…
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Arab News recently covered the two books that sociologist Asef Bayat published this year. In them, he uses social movement theory to explain how everyday actions create change in the…
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image:: Robert Crumb’s Fritz the Cat
I saw this article by Thomas Roche linked to on Twitter, where he finds the genesis of the cartoon character-end child abuse meme. He doesn’t…
After the recent shock of a federal indictment of 29 Somali and Somali American individuals on sex trafficking charges, the New York Times reports on the Minnesota Somali community’s attempts to…