From #Birzeit_University We all Stand Together
#SJP #CampusProtests #popular_university_for_gaza . #stopthegenocide

M. Burawoy on the @asanews resolution: 'sociologists...have real material interests in the domination that feeds them. In the Israeli case sociologists, often indistinguishable from anthropologists...have become accomplices of the Israeli state. But more to the point...' 1/3

Signed. How about you?

BONUS AFTERLIVES EVENT:

'ABOLITION GEOGRAPHY: A WORKSHOP WITH RUTH WILSON GILMORE'

MON 5/6, 4:30-6:30 pm
CCA Seminar Room, 6051
Rutgers Academic Building, West
15 Seminary Place
New Brunswick, NJ

To register: bit.ly/4d06loK
For more info: bit.ly/4d2C2hu

Check out this review forum on my book 'Subaltern frontiers' out now in Society & Space, edited by Shubhra Gururani with contributions from Asher Ghertner, Vinay Gidwani & Tim Bunnell, and a response from me! societyandspace.org/book-review-fo…

Issue 1 of 2024 on 'Desirable Futures' is out, and mostly Open Access! As the editors' Intro states, the issue 'offers a window into capacious desires & futurities, showing how to rethink relations of labor, land & life for just & desirable futures.' journals.sagepub.com/toc/epda/42/1

For Asher Ghertner, Tom Cowan shows the contradictions of the neoliberal city in India: luxury enclaves need urban villages, luxury townships need agrarian committees, & caste-based city-making territorial assertion requires ethno-religious nationalism
societyandspace.org/articles/from-…

#CityDrafting Epilogue: In 'Scripts, Scribes and Scribbles' Asher Ghertner argues that the papers reveal property and city making to be embedded in colonial writing practices, showing the epistemological limits of private property in S-Asia & beyond.

🔗: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Thanks to my colleague Julia Elyachar, from Princeton, for this sharp and heartfelt letter of support.

Sharad Chari's 'Apartheid Remains' explores how people handle the remains of segregation & apartheid in South Africa as witnessed through portals in an industrial-residential landscape in the city Durban. Read the free intro! #Geography #AfricanStudies ow.ly/XIzH50QQxrK

A good day to re-read Niraja Gopal Jayal on the foundational shift the #CAA will bring about in the conception of the Indian citizen. theindiaforum.in/article/faith-…

I’m really grateful to Malini Ranganathan for editing this forum on my book, with such careful engagement from Ananya Roy, Nandita Sharma (@nsharma101.bsky.social), and Yousuf Al-Bulushi, followed by a response from me — all in Society & Space

Epistemic violence.

'Gaza: A decolonial geography' is 'Free to Read' in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.

By Zena Agha | زينة آغا James Esson mark griffiths Mikko Joronen

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

academia.edu/114502684/Gaza…

BREAKING: University of Michigan Faculty Senate Assembly votes for divestment from any company invested in the Israeli war in Gaza

For an excellent discussion on the relationship between territory, property & capital, read Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay #StreetsinMotion . A must read for all scholars interested in the urban form. And yes, I am catching up on my reading this summer!

As scholars working in Dutch universities, we call on our boards and deans to take immediate action in the wake of the ICJ ruling on genocide in Gaza dutchscholarsforpalestine.nl/dsp-icj-2024

And a further reminder to all: TEACH J.T. Roane in all of your seminars, every semester... 🔥🔥 Dark Agoras is it.