Teacher, Ethnographer, Arabist; Author of Affection and Mercy (2021) and Social Media Tribes: Jordan's Bedouin and the Margins of the State (2026) ♥️🇯🇴♥️🇵🇸 (he/هو)
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Geoffrey Hughes
This is a very weird way to talk about a member of your party facing a vindictive government prosecution that fell apart on first contact with a judge...
Musk buying twitter, Bezos buying WaPo, Ellison buying CBS—all are less profitable now. But they’re political investments that increase the value of the new owners’ portfolios
Wealth concentration makes this possible, and that’s one mechanism by which inequality destroys democracy
Trying to do this here:
This is a big reason why I would humbly suggest that studies of media in soft authoritarian contexts are increasingly useful for understanding media and politics in nominally democratic contexts in the West...
Geoffrey Hughes
Jake Grumbach
Penguin Random House India has refused to publish a comic by Joe Sacco on anti-Muslim riots caused by Hindutva leaders' genocidal rhetoric in 2013.
The mega publisher would not publish unless the writer modified statements in response to right-wing Hindutva objections.
Watch Turkish women (me) embrace the teyze mode
If dirt is matter out of place per Mary Douglas in ”Purity and Danger“ it might be useful to think of crime as people publicly out of place.
Geoffrey Hughes
Geoffrey Hughes
I wrote a piece a few years ago as a sort of primer that tries to historicize and contextualize the current counterrevolutionary war in Sudan. It’s basic and is meant to give folks who haven’t been following closely a sense of what and why it is happening.
A problem with authoritarianism and media conglomeration is that the owners of these media companies don't care if they are profitable so they use them rather to send signals to the authoritarian who wields control over their profit-making businesses.
Adanedhel🌹
Nagihan Haliloğlu
Shabana Mir
My book now has a cover and is available for pre-order wherever you get your books (on sale October 13th):
Musk buying twitter, Bezos buying WaPo, Ellison buying CBS—all are less profitable now. But they’re political investments that increase the value of the new owners’ portfolios
Wealth concentration makes this possible, and that’s one mechanism by which inequality destroys democracy
Nisrin Elamin
Ryan Enos
Geoffrey Hughes
Jake Grumbach
From our new issue: "Sudan's Counterrevolutionary War" by @nisrinelamin.bsky.social traces key elements of the political economy of Sudan's war and situates it within a longer history of state violence.
Freely available here: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...
A problem with authoritarianism and media conglomeration is that the owners of these media companies don't care if they are profitable so they use them rather to send signals to the authoritarian who wields control over their profit-making businesses.
Affirmative control of one's gender is not just a matter of identity however crucial it is.
It is a matter of good health and wellbeing, as you should be able to choose the way you age.
Puberty IS the main aging mechanism of the body
We should be able to control and tune aging to our needs by now.
Brad continues to fundraise off of a performative, self-promoting case that does nothing to actually help immigrant communities across NYC. Meanwhile, I’m doing the work to fight ICE.
It’s remarkable to watch him make the trauma these families are enduring all about himself.
Another item began with a declaration (to paraphrase) that "we keep being told that violent crime is falling, but it doesn't feel like that". As if how people "feel" is just an independent variable to which the news has to respond, rather than something that inaccurate reporting helps to shape.
