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Interviews
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“The Interdisciplinary Nature of Food Is Now Un-ignorable”: Alicia Kennedy on Food Writing, Food Security, and Food Justice
“Food writing can no longer just be ‘go to this restaurant’ or ‘explain this dish or cocktail.’”
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“Courage or Foolhardiness”: Talking Aimé Césaire with Alex Gil
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We Are the Authors of the Story of Citizenship: Daisy Hernández on America’s Myth
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“Disaster Has Happened and Is Happening”: Tara Menon on What the Novel Reveals
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“Recover, Replant, Return”: Talking Nuclear History, Writing, and Food with Kate Brown
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Nostalgia’s Empire: A Conversation with Grafton Tanner and Johny Pitts
Nostalgia is both a threat and a refuge.
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Finding the Latinx City with Mike Amezcua and Pedro A. Regalado
“Sometimes Latino urban history is thought of as the history of a cultural community and that’s a little dismissive. I examine people contesting and reshaping the use of space.”
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“We Want More Housing, but How?” Talking with Max Holleran
“There are a lot of basic things that America has still not accepted in terms of how to live a happy urban life.”
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Chains of Domination, Chains of Solidarity: Benjamin L. McKean on Justice, Solidarity, Supply Chains
“For good or ill, freedom and solidarity and social justice are not things we can get quickly.”
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Cooking, Monasteries, Arithmetic: Lorraine Daston on the History of Rules
“There is a deadly earnestness with which children take up whatever rules have been established for a particular context.”
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5 Books on the Politics of Indonesian Labor
People are familiar with how big the Japanese and South Korean economies are, but Indonesia is a rising power in Asia with a large labor force, and it’s very rarely being talked about.
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“To Reach across Boundaries”: Laleh Khalili Talks Solidarity and Global Trade
“It is precisely because we are unlike, or we haven’t had the same experiences, that solidarity can be built.”
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Saying Goodbye to Childhood: An Interview with Javier Zamora
“I hope people will see the heartbreak of a little kid having to grow up and say goodbye to his childhood in order to survive.”
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Public Thinker: Ruha Benjamin on Uprooting Oppression and Seeding Justice
“Keep your cosmetic change, if you’re making no attempt to deal with the underlying practices that perpetuate harm.”
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Car Creditocracy: An Interview with Julie Livingston & Andrew Ross
“If you are a car owner, you are red meat for whoever wants to prey upon you, whether it is police, auto lenders, or state agencies.”
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Filming the Deep: Margaret Cohen on Underwater Film Technologies
“The book is about the importance of film for enabling audiences to connect to the most remote environment on the planet.”
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What Films Should We Teach?: A conversation about the Canon
What are the most-assigned films in college classrooms? Three film studies professors talk about the rankings and what they mean.
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“There’s No Normal to Get Back To”: The State of Higher Ed
“Maybe that’s one thing the pandemic has allowed—for us to be a bit more honest about our struggles.”
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“There Are More Things”: Benjamín Labatut on Betrayal, Fiction, and the Future
“If I’m honest, I never came back to Chile, at least not to the country of my early childhood, an inferno in which I was happy.”
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“I Speak Only for Myself”: Anahid Nersessian on Keats, Feminism, and Poetry
“One of the things that is interesting about Keats’ letters to Fanny Brawne is that you can’t infer a damn thing that’s happened between them.”
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Between Coldness and Adoration: A Zainichi Korean’s Experience in Japan
“I urge Japanese readers to take another look at their elementary and middle school textbooks.”
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NEUT Magazine on Making Space for Social Discourse in Japan
“I want the world to know that there are people speaking up and trying to change society here.”
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“It Is Not How You Feel”: Batja Mesquita on How Different Cultures Experience Emotions
“We define ourselves more by certain emotions. I’ve never heard anybody say, ‘I’m trying to get over my embarrassment and I feel so inauthentic.'”
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Public Thinker: Jaipreet Virdi on Disability History & Deaf Futures
“Disabled people have long made their own hacks.”
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“No One Is There Who Has Somewhere Better to Be”: Talking Migration with Levi Vonk
“The asylum system is a rejection of anything that disrupts American universalism. It’s kicking people out who offer an alternative view of the world.”
