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Academic Paywalls Codify Elitism
I have returned from the Registan conference on Social Trends and Stability in Central Asia, where I spoke on a roundtable panel about human rights in Uzbekistan with Jim Bigus from the State Department, Steve Swerdlow from Human Rights Watch, … Continue reading
My thoughts on freedom of speech
For Al Jazeera, I examine recent controversies over freedom of speech: The battle lines of free speech are often drawn over the banal. One strategy of those who seek to minimise the argument of the offended party is to scoff … Continue reading
Why the phrase ‘The Muslim world’ is misleading
In my latest Al Jazeera column, I take on the misguided use of the phrase ‘the Muslim world’ to describe the very small number of Muslims participating in violent action against the West: It is time to retire the phrase … Continue reading
A Heated Reaction to the Ramil Safarov Case
I have received a lot of emails and comments from Azerbaijanis critical of my Al Jazeera article on Ramil Safarov, The axe murderer who became a Facebook hero. Most of them were from Azerbaijanis saying that Safarov should be considered … Continue reading
The homecoming of Ramil Safarov
For Al Jazeera, I write about the strange, sad case of Ramil Safarov, the Azerbaijani officer who murdered an Armenian officer at a NATO camp in Hungary in 2004, was sentenced to prison in 2006, and was extradited last week … Continue reading
Our Response to the American Anthropological Association
The same week my article The Closing of American Academia appeared in Al Jazeera, three other anthropologists published works criticizing labor conditions in the discipline. The American Anthropological Association responded with a blog post dividing our articles into “two camps”: one … Continue reading
What does celebrity activism accomplish?
Those concerned I’m not doing anything with my PhD will be pleased to know my works comprise a third of Al Jazeera’s Justin Bieber and Kim Kardashian coverage. My latest, Does Celebrity Activism Matter?, takes on campaigns to raise “awareness” … Continue reading
Crisis in the Academy
My article on the employment crisis in higher education, The Closing of American Academia, has been shared over 10,000 times on Facebook and is still one of the highest trafficked articles on Al Jazeera. Yesterday I was a guest on … Continue reading
The Conversation Continues
So, how is everyone enjoying the first day of school? The Closing of American Academia is still burning up the internet. It has been republished on Alternet, ZNet and discussed on dozens of blogs and websites. It has inspired a … Continue reading
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