This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10
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Are women's rights more at risk than we thought? Another great essay from @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/ruthbrau...
Tisa's book comes out in a few weeks! Be sure to pre-order and ask your library to purchase!
A quiet, foggy day before the students arrive 😍
Woohoo!
Looking for alternatives to Mills for my Intro class, and am going to try a short essay from Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass called "The Gift of Strawberries." In talking about the gift economy vs. property economy, she sketches the two-way relationship between humans and society!
So happy to hear my friend Yagmur Karakaya has a new publication out (and so timely, too): "The Global Rise of Populist Nostalgia: Lessons from Collective Memory"
Here's the link: compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Here's the link to the essay: indigenous.abbyschools.ca/sites/defaul...
A new Substack post up today: "The Map is Not the Territory." Check it out: open.substack.com/pub/annetayl...
On the Handmaid's Tale, glass vs. rubber balls, and singing in the shower
Propelled by issues of migration, globalization, and postcoloniality, the field of collective memory experienced a transnational and cosmopolitan turn in the first decade of the 21st Century. A broad...
@tisawenger.bsky.social's new book "Spirits of Empire: How Settler Colonialism Made American Religion" is out in March! It argues that American religion was shaped from the start by the governing imperatives of US empire. Pre-order and ask your library to purchase! uncpress.org/978146969362...
The Declaration of Independence depicted Native Americans as bloodthirsty savages, and from its founding the United States aimed to expand westward by seizin...
RELIGION UNBUNDLED
Excited that this paper proposing a new paradigm for the sociology of US religion @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social, @jlkucinskas.bsky.social, @bsteens.bsky.social and I have been working on has been accepted for publication in the American Sociological Review.
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