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Occupy Movements: AE Forum Free Access
Maple Razsa and Andrej Kurnik, The Occupy Movement in Žižek’s hometown: Direct democracy and a politics of becoming
Jeffrey S. Juris, Reflections on #Occupy Everywhere: Social media, public space, and emerging logics of aggregation
David Nugent, Commentary: Democracy, temporalities of capitalism, and dilemmas of inclusion in Occupy movements
More Research Articles
Douglas Rogers, The materiality of the corporation: Oil, gas, and corporate social technologies in the remaking of a Russian region
Fida Adely, “God made beautiful things”: Proper faith and religious authority in a Jordanian high school
Benjamin Smith, Language and the frontiers of the human: Aymara animal-oriented interjections and the mediation of mind
Jaffari Allen, One way or another: Erotic subjectivity in Cuba
Shaylih Muehlmann, Rhizomes and other uncountables: The malaise of enumeration in Mexico’s Colorado River Delta
Alison Holt Norris and Eric Worby, The sexual economy of a sugar plantation: Privatization and social welfare in northern Tanzania
Michal Kravel-Tovi, Rite of passing: Bureaucratic encounters, dramaturgy, and Jewish conversion in Israel
Marina Welker, The Green Revolution’s ghost: Unruly subjects of participatory development in rural Indonesia
Benjamin Junge, NGOs as shadow pseudopublics: Grassroots community leaders’ perceptions of change and continuity in Porto Alegre, Brazil
Lilith Mahmud, “The world is a forest of symbols”: Italian Freemasonry and the practice of discretion
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A Response to the Recent Attacks on Professor Frances Fox Piven
The joint statement was featured in a NewsWise article. The article describes the how Beck’s coverage of Piven’s research has escalated in the past few months:
Although Beck has not directly called for violence against Piven, his attacks have created an opening for threats of violence to emerge. During the past few months, Piven has received a flood of hate mail and been the subject of menacing Internet postings, which include a series of death threats. Much of the violent vitriol has appeared on Beck’s own website.
The joint statement looks to the First Amendment rights for protection of academic research on controversial issues and urges open debate:
We vigorously support serious, honest, and passionate public debate…We support serious engagement on the research of Professor Piven and of others who study controversial issues such as unemployment, the economic crisis, the rights of welfare recipients, and the place of government intervention. We also support the right of political commentators to participate in such debates. At the same time, we insist that all parties recognize the rights of academic researchers not only to gather and analyze evidence related to controversial questions, but also to arrive at their own conclusions and to expect those conclusions to be reported accurately in public debates.
AAA sections, The American Ethnological Society (AES) and The Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA) are honored that Francis Fox Piven will be the keynote speaker at their upcoming joint conference. The conference will be held April 14-17 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. For conference registration and additional details, click here.
To view the joint statement and to read the complete NewsWise article, click here. The Chronicle blog also weighs in on the topic, check it out.
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