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Compilation of Avery Gordon on haunting, exiled longings, the end of history, and 'the common wind' of 'the utopian margins' in the face of state violence and disavowal

(Originally compiled and posted elsewhere 2021, then revised and re-posted on 7 May 2024.) Just four excerpts from different Avery Gordon pieces that I prepared for May Day/Labor Day. — Excerpt 1: [C]oncentration of global wealth and the “extension of hopeless poverties”; [...] the intensification of state repression and

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Contextualizing Indigenous dispossession in the Black Hills, 2019-2022: Banning the governor, protest criminalization, and tourism money beneath the glare of stone-chiseled statesmen

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Contextualizing Indigenous dispossession in the Black Hills, 2019-2022: Banning the governor, protest criminalization, and tourism money beneath the glare of stone-chiseled statesmen

(First draft/installment originally posted elsewhere on 7 May 2019.) On 2 May 2019, Governor Kristi Noem was formally banned from Pine Ridge Reservation “until she rescinds her support for new state laws that target disruptive demonstrations.” Subscribe (Originally posted elsewhere on 19 November 2019.) Extreme flooding had already been

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In conversation: Coffee, inter-imperial 'slavery hinterlands,' uprisings, and revising the historiography on Dutch slavery in the eighteenth/early nineteenth centuries

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In conversation: Coffee, inter-imperial 'slavery hinterlands,' uprisings, and revising the historiography on Dutch slavery in the eighteenth/early nineteenth centuries

(Originally posted elsewhere in February 2024.) Just some excerpts from a couple of authors in the same special issue of Slavery & Abolition, which I liked contemplating together. Subscribe Aside from Combrink’s discussion of so-far-understudied Dutch role in promoting a commodity chain as an intermediary between Caribbean

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Sources on imperial Japan's use of forestry management as a tool of colonial expansion and 'ecological imperialism' (and post-war Korea's inheritance)

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Sources on imperial Japan's use of forestry management as a tool of colonial expansion and 'ecological imperialism' (and post-war Korea's inheritance)

(Originally posted elsewhere on 3 October 2021.) First, a list of sources. Subscribe Then, an excerpt of an interview with David Feldman, author Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea (University of Washington Press, 2020). Feldman describes utilitarian concerns and the Japanese institutional/state adoption of

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