I mapped out three defeated strategies of the last five decades and started a sketch of emergent paths. lefteast.org/left-parties... A few basic points: "Since the 1970s, the world left has gradually lost its claim to represent the total liberation of humanity from capitalism and imperialism. 1/

My students came up with an exquisite title for their presentation on precarity and informality in Pakistan’s music industry

Hi all. I teach sociology & study the politics of informality & urban development (mostly in Pakistan). Not to go all LinkedIn here, but am sharing some of my recent writings in this thread. 1) On democracy & urban infrastructure in the Global South onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Should earnestly seek refuge here from the avalanche of right wing drivel on that other app.

Peter Baker teaching his kid all that matters: laundering right wing agitprop in passive tense reasonable concern language. Not teaching his kid: basic decency and manners

The DC march was one of the largest I've ever been to and it def *felt* larger than the march in London last week.

On the publisher website is more legit no?

Revisiting this all-time great

Superb essay on gendered struggles and community representation by Adeem Suhail