Interviews
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Palestine Solidarity and the New Internationalism
An Interview with Jesse Rosenfeld
Jesse Rosenfeld is a freelance journalist who has written extensively on Israel/Palestine. He has published articles with The Nation, The Guardian, Le Monde Diplomatique, Al Jazeera English, The Irish Times, Ha’aretz, and Foreignpolicy.com. More recently, he was on assignment reporting on the Gaza…
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Revolutionary Ambition in an Age of Austerity
An Interview with Neil Smith
Neil Smith teaches anthropology and geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and is a past director of its Center for Place, Culture and Politics. He is best known for his work on gentrification and for his interest in refining a Marxist theory of “uneven development.”...
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Lessons from CUPW on Delivering the Goods
An Interview with Mikhail Bjorge
Mikhail Bjorge is a letter carrier and shop steward for the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) in Edmonton, Alberta. He serves on the CUPW Edmonton Organising Committee and is the CUPW representative on the Alberta Federation of Labour’s political action committee. Lorenzo Fiorito interviewed…
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Their Eyes Were ?Watching Cops
An interview with Joaquin Cienfuegos
Joaquin Cienfuegos is a member of Copwatch LA, the Piece Cooperative, and the Native Youth Movement. He has been organizing in Los Angeles since the age of 17. He was interviewed by Sharmeen Khan in August 2011. Tell me about the trajectory of your activism and political consciousness. How has it le…
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Points of Resistance and Departure: An interview with James C. Scott
James C. Scott is among the foremost experts on the struggles of subaltern people in Southeast Asia and throughout the world. He is the Sterling Professor of Political Science and Professor of Anthropology as well as the Director of the Agrarian Studies Program at Yale University. Scott’s book…
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Normalization and its Discontents: An Interview with Ladelle McWhorter
Ladelle McWhorter is the author of Bodies and Pleasures: Foucault and the Politics of Sexual Normalization(Indiana, 1999), Racism and Sexual Oppression in Anglo-America: A Genealogy(Indiana, 2009), and numerous articles in feminist, queer, and race theory. With Gail Stenstad, she edited Heidegger an…
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The Politics of Starving: An Interview with Raj Patel
Raj Patel is a writer, activist and academic. He is the author of Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System(2008)and The Value of Nothing(2009), co-author with Eric Holt-Gimenez and Annie Shattuck of Food Rebellions!(2010), and co-editor, with Peter Rossett and Michael Courvil…
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Climate Justice, Climate Debt, and Anti-Capitalism: An Interview with Patrick Bond
Patrick Bond is a political economist and activist living in Durban, South Africa, where he teaches political economy and eco-social policy at the University of KwaZulu-Natal UKZN. Before the African National Patrick Bond is a political economist and activist living in Durban, South Africa, where he…
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Building Unlikely Alliances: An Interview with Andrea Smith
Andrea Smith is cofounder of the national organizations INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence and The Boarding School Healing Project. She is author of a number of books, including At the World Forum of Theology and Liberation, a group of Indigenous peoples from Bolivia said, “we know another wo…
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Think Before You Act
An Interview with Sherene Razack
Sherene Razack is a professor in the department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Her research and teaching interests lie in the area of race and gender issues in the law. Her most recent research investigates the deaths of Aboriginal people held in police cu…
