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Undisciplined: Notes on Carceral Academia

American universities were unraveling long before Gaza
9/11 exposed the darker undercurrents of American universities but the ongoing genocide of Palestinians has laid these bare. By Bhakti Shringarpure.
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29. Becoming Afghan, Becoming American After 9/11: Featuring Zohra Saed
“You had to go and perform Afghan-ness,” scholar and poet Zohra Saed recalls as she speaks of the scary and difficult days soon after the towers fell in…
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“We're in a time of grotesque imperial wars. We have to keep complaining and protesting.” - Sara Ahmed
A conversation with writer, scholar and activist Sara Ahmed about her book "NO! The Art and Activism of Complaining" for the Radical Futures podcast.
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19. Poetry, Protest and Palestine: Featuring Ammiel Alcalay
In more than two dozen books spanning Iraq, Bosnia, Palestine and Vietnam, poet, translator and scholar Ammiel Alcalay has crystallized a piercing…
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From the Warscapes archives: Mahmood Mamdani interview from 2013
Zohran Mamdani's exciting win in New York City has sparked an interest in my conversation with his father, the scholar Mahmood Mamdani, from over 12…
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7. The Repression of Palestine on American Campuses: Featuring Maura Finkelstein
Anthropologist Maura Finkelstein had always incorporated Palestine in her university teaching and felt that, as an anti-Zionist, Jewish American…
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"With Gaza, we are beyond the breaking point." - Huda Fakhreddine
Arabic literature scholar Huda Fakhreddine on being vilified at a US congressional hearing, UPenn's cowardice, and the racism of literature departments…
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UCop: A Small Town Tale of Big Cop Ambitions
Actual policing and administrative policing are two sides of the same coin at UConn's rural campus as the intersecting violence toward pro-Palestine…
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Carceral academia
American universities might seem to be going overboard with violent cops, student arrests, and criminalizing protest but academia has always been a…
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