During the 2018 meeting of the American Anthropological Association, I took a trip to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. It had been nearly two decades since my last trip and it seemed like a politically salient time to visit and reflect on the destruction carried out by a fascist regime. While there, visitors were…
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Abstract for “Geno-colonisation: How science executes structural violence”
Social institutions such as healthcare and education have been examined through a lens of structural violence— the systematic ways by which social institutions place certain members at a disadvantage thus causing various types of harm. However, science has escaped such scrutiny. In a post-colonial world, new forms of colonisation have taken the place of traditional…
Hegemony, Trump, and The Riddle of Steel
As you have surely heard, charges were filed against former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and former aid Rick Gates, including “conspiracy against the United States” and eleven others. The language of the conspiracy charge reads: “knowingly and intentionally [conspiring] to defraud the United States by impeding, impairing, obstructing, and defeating the lawful governmental functions…
Charlottesville, VA Response
Given the clashes in Charlottesville, VA between nationalist, racist protestors and the anti-racist counter-protestors, I thought I would offer my thoughts and opinions about what is going on broadly. I’ll cover the nationalists’ side, responses from people on social media, and where I think things may go from here. White nationalists descended on Charlottesville, VA…
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