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The Symbolic Violence of Gentrification, Part V

The neoliberal doxa of the state

February 9, 2018 • by Stefano Rumi

Below is the final segment of an essay in five parts written by University of Virginia student Stefano Rumi for Isaac Reed's Sociology of Power and Authority course. *** As discussed part I and II, third-wave gentrification can be understood of as the neoliberal state’s response to post-Fordist urban decline at the ...

The Symbolic Violence of Gentrification, Part V

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The Symbolic Violence of Gentrification, Part IV

Applying Bourdieu’s theory of symbolic power

February 8, 2018 • by Stefano Rumi

Below is part four of an essay in five parts, written by University of Virginia student Stefano Rumi for Isaac Reed's Sociology of Power and Authority course. Previously, Rumi criticized incorporations of Pierre Bourdieu’s habitus in discussing gentrification as less applicable to third-wave gentrification, and excusatory of gentrifiers’ destructive actions in re-appropriating and ...

The Symbolic Violence of Gentrification, Part IV

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The Symbolic Violence of Gentrification, Part III

Understanding and reframing gentrification debates today

February 7, 2018 • by Stefano Rumi

Below is the third segment of an essay in five parts by University of Virginia student Stefano Rumi, written for Sociology of Power and Authority course taught by Isaac Reed. Part two discussed the nature of third-wave gentrification, and why it has evolved from a relatively small, localized phenomenon into ...

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The Symbolic Violence of Gentrification, Part II

Conceptualizing Gentrification Today

February 6, 2018 • by Stefano Rumi

In first segment in this five-part series, Stefano Rumi suggested that gentrification has mutated into a remarkably consistent and replicable phenomenon of urban development in diverse cities across the world. In the second segment, below, Rumi further explores this new form of gentrification, entitled “third-wave gentrification,” and its inequitable effects ...

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The Symbolic Violence of Gentrification, Part I

Re-contextualizing urban renewal

February 5, 2018 • by Stefano Rumi

In an essay published in five parts, Stefano Rumi, a student in Isaac Reed's Sociology of Power course at University of Virginia, will lay out a critique of gentrification, identify its ideological underpinnings, and analyze what it would take to produce an alternative. Below is the introduction. “There is no alternative.” ...

The Symbolic Violence of Gentrification, Part I

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Grounded Struggles

Land, Dispossession, and Freedom

February 5, 2018 • by Ujju Aggarwal

Please join us for a series of films and discussions on grassroots struggles for land, dignity, the means of subsistence, and self-determination in Brazil, Morocco, Tunisia, Haiti and the U.S. In the face of (neo)colonial/(neo)imperial interventions, increased state repression and intensified capital expansion, these grounded struggles shed light on the mechanisms ...

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What Makes a Great Proposal for the AHA Annual Meeting?

Call for submissions

January 22, 2018 • by Claire Potter and Brian Ogilvie

Chairing a conference program committee is a humbling experience, both because of the fine people in it, and because of the opportunities it provides to encounter thoughtful and engaging scholarship. Building the program of the American Historical Association’s annual meeting, especially, offers an opportunity to see what our colleagues are ...

What Makes a Great Proposal for the AHA Annual Meeting?

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The History of Sexuality has a Jewish Problem

The Difference Religion Makes to United States History

July 29, 2017 • by Gillian Frank

Recently I had the pleasure of being a respondent at a conference in honor of Heather White and Anthony Petro’s respective path breaking publications Reforming Sodom and After the Wrath of God. Both books make crucial interventions in the history of sexuality and LGBTQ history, two fields that are only ...

The History of Sexuality has a Jewish Problem

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Appreciating Professor Ewa Letowska

3rd Annual Courage in Public Scholarship Award by TCDS and the NSSR Europe Collective

July 25, 2017 • by Tomasz Kitlinski and Pawel Leszkowicz

It is social justice and historical necessity to award Professor Ewa Letowska the Courage in Public Scholarship Award. For us -- an openly gay couple in Poland -- the works and media activism Professor Letowska has always been a beacon of hope. She has voiced freedom and tolerance, more: acceptance and celebration ...

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Why Give Prizes?

The World Press Photo’s contest for Photograph of the Year

April 9, 2017 • by Mariana Flores Lizaola

For 60 years, World Press Photo has presided an annual contest to reward the best Photographs of the Year according to “the highest standards in photojournalism.” This contest has been “not only a record of more than half a century of human history, but a showcase of successive styles in ...

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Perón in the White House

The Perils of Ethnocentric Solipsism

March 19, 2017 • by Vladimir Tismaneanu and Jordan Luber

Recently 45 was asked about rising anti-Semitic incidents in our country. The reporter made explicit this question was not an allegation against 45. He was asking what 45 would do to combat these incidents. The orange mountebank responded that he is “the least anti-Semitic person that you’ve ever seen in ...

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Half A Healthcare Bill

May Not Be Better Than None

March 18, 2017 • by Claire Potter

This morning, for example, Howe renamed the new American Health Care Act (AHCA) the "`Republican Participation Trophy' Health Care Plan." You know what he is talking about: those youth sports tournaments organized by candy-ass liberals and pansies where every kid gets a prize just for participating? The Party of Winners and ...