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“Take It Easy on U.S. Imperialism”: Theocratizing the Middle East
The letter signed by “Mehdi Mohammadzadeh” (MM) in the March/April 2013 issue of Anthropology News contains a number of ethnographic, political and ethical issues which I wish to address. The letter is heavily tinted with strains of occidentosis (Farsi, gharbzadagi). MM has either misunderstood C. K. Mahmood’s comment in AN 53(9), 2012 or is interested […]
Keep Your Money: A Series on Dignity
July 29, 2012 by Maximilian Forte
This is the first part of a series on dignity that will appear on ZA, featuring the usual collage of songs, history, documents, and short essays. While there are treatments of “dignity” in Western philosophy, it is interesting to note the absence of the idea as a concept in the works of most anthropologists, which […]
The Excuse is Wikileaks. The Object is Freedom of Speech. The Subject is Authoritarianism.
January 8, 2011 by Maximilian Forte
If you were asked which regime is described by the following actions and characteristics, what would you answer? A regime that produces a death list of citizens abroad to be executed by its secret intelligence service, without arrest, without trial by a jury. A regime that conducts surveillance at home and then uses that information […]
Just Released: The New Imperialism, Vol. 1: Militarism, Humanism, and Occupation
November 24, 2010 by Maximilian Forte
The New Imperialism is the title of an annual seminar which I offer at Concordia University to advanced undergraduates. It is an unusual course, and given the content of past student evaluations, one that is extremely popular with participants who unanimously rated it as excellent on all levels. Part of the reason might be that there […]
What Ahmadinejad Did Not Say at the UN, that Some People Instead Chose to Hear
September 29, 2010 by Maximilian Forte
First, let’s start with what should be the starting point, not someone’s preferred interpretation, not a gloss, not a twist, nor an inventive rewording or taking of words out of context–but the actual spoken statement of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the 65th session of the UN General Assembly on 23 September 2010, with particular attention to […]
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April 23, 2013 by M. Jamil Hanifi
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