This opinion piece appeared in the Globe and Mail on January 24. With permission, I am re-posting it here, the day the sentence decision will be issued. You can listen to my January 28 interview on the CBC's Morning Edition, or watch a video interview here. (I wasn't warned there would be video! I had come straight from the gym! Hopefully there isn't smoothie all over my face). For further reading, see We Need to Talk About the Backlash--What is To Be Done?, a report prepared for the … [Read more...]
Jodi Dean on the interpretation of violence
On April 9, Jodi Dean published a blog post “Palestine speaks for everyone” for Verso Books in which she expresses support for Palestinian resistance. She has since been removed from teaching responsibilities (temporarily, until the end of term) by her employer, Hobart and William Smith Colleges. I took special interest in this news because I’ve been influenced by Dean’s scholarship on solidarity. Her definition is a foundation for an article that Janet Jones and I recently published on … [Read more...]