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SARA FARRIS /// European Femonationalism and Domestic Violence Against Women - THE FUNAMBULIST MAGAZINE
▻https://thefunambulist.net/podcast/sara-farris-european-femonationalism-domestic-violence-women

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This conversation with Sara Farris was recorded on August 7, 2017 to be featured as a transcript in the 13th issue of The Funambulist Magazine (Sept-Oct. 2017) Queers, Feminists & Interiors. It attempts to link the work she presents in her book, In the Name of Women’s Rights: The Rise of Femonationalism (Duke University Press, 2017) with the violence against women that femonationalist discourses deliberately ignore (as these violences are exercised through what we could call “a universalist patriarchy”): domestic violence. The conversation first presents the political concept of femonationalism in the context of Europe, and then proceeds to describe the several dimensions of violence against women in domestic spaces.

Sara Farris is a senior lecturer in the sociology department at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the author of Max Weber’s Theory of Personality. Individuation, Politics and Orientalism in the Sociology of Religion (Brill 2013) and In the Name of Women’s Rights. The Rise of Femonationalism (Duke 2017). Sara’s work to date has focused on the orientalist underpinnings of sociological theory, which she explored in my first monograph on Max Weber’s sociology of religion, and on theories of gender, race and social reproduction, particularly as they apply to the analysis of migrant women in Western Europe. Through these theoretical lenses and interests, Sara has examined theories of racism and nationalism; the specific gendered forms of Orientalist/Westocentric representations of women in the Western public discourse; the mobilization of women’s rights by right-wing nationalist parties within xenophobic campaigns (which Sara calls ‘Femonationalism’)

MAYANTHI FERNANDO /// Muslim French and the Contradiction of Secularism - THE FUNAMBULIST MAGAZINE
▻https://thefunambulist.net/podcast/mayanthi-fernando-muslim-french-contradiction-secularism
▻https://anthro.ucsc.edu/faculty/singleton.php?&singleton=true&cruz_id=mfernan3

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This conversation with Mayanthi Fernando constitutes a new episode in a series of discussions with US-based researchers whose terrain of political investigations is situated in France. After Crystal Marie Flemming and Mehammed Amadeus Mack, Mayanthi describes her methodology and her work that she articulated in her book, The Republic Unsettled that was published in 2014. We talk about the ideological, legal, and discursive framework through which secularism (laicité) is approached, and often politically instrumentalized in the French Republic. In a second part, we describe the aspirations of the Muslim French community between “a right to difference” and “a right to indifference,” as well as the political activism that is undertaken in resistance to structural islamophobia in France.

Mayanthi Fernando is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her first book, The Republic Unsettled: Muslim French and the Contradictions of Secularism (Duke University Press, 2014), alternates between an analysis of Muslim French politics, ethics, and social life and the contradictions of French secularity (laïcité) that this new Muslim subjectivity reflects and refracts. It explores how Muslim French draw on both Islamic and secular-republican traditions as they create new modes of ethical and political engagement, reconfiguring those traditions to imagine a future for France. It also examines how the institutions, political and legal practices, and dominant discourses that comprise French secularity regulate and govern–and profoundly disrupt–Muslim life. In so doing, it traces a series of long-standing tensions immanent to laïcité, tensions not so much generated as precipitated by the presence of Muslim French. It argues, ultimately, that “the Muslim question” is actually a question about secularism.

Israël est, par définition, une colonie européenne - [UJFP]
lundi 6 mars 2017
par Aaron Tordjman (article publié dans Haaretz le 27 février 2017).
Traduit de l’hébreu par Michel Bilis.
▻http://www.ujfp.org/spip.php?article5453

Comment se fait-il que la Palestine, partie intégrante du Moyen-Orient, et morceau de terre habité depuis l’Antiquité par une population orientale ayant adopté, depuis plus d’un millénaire, la culture et la langue arabe, à l’instar de la Syrie, de l’Égypte ou de l’Algérie, soit, en une centaine d’années, devenue un État peuplé de migrants venus du monde entier ? On s’interrogera également pour comprendre comment la population originelle de la Palestine est dispersée dans des camps de réfugiés, une partie étant soumise à un pouvoir militaire d’occupation, et une minorité d’entre –elle, seulement, disposant de la citoyenneté dans le nouvel État d’immigrés, qui se considère comme faisant partie de l’Occident. Les réponses à ces interrogations se situent dans un contexte en dehors duquel le conflit entre le sionisme et le monde arabe demeure incompréhensible ; à savoir : le colonialisme.(...)

The Underwater Internet - The Atlantic
▻http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/05/the-underwater-internet/393161

A wireless world relies on more than cloud technology. Half-century-old cable stations are critical nodes where messages can still be delayed, censored, or intercepted.

The Undersea Network | Duke University Press
▻https://www.dukeupress.edu/The-Undersea-Network

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The myth of the ‘Arabs versus Jews’ narrative
►http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/myth-%E2%80%98arabs-versus-jews%E2%80%99-narrative

In Sephardim in Israel: Zionism From The Standpoint of Its Jewish Victims Ella Shohat, a self-identified Arab-Jew and Professor of Cultural Studies at New York University, argues that the consequences of Zionism not only extend to the Palestinians but to the Sephardim, who she refers to as Oriental Jews, whose voices have been silenced by Zionism. In the 1988 edition of the academic journal Social Text, published by Duke University Press, Shohat describes that even at the earliest stages of the Arab protest of Zionism there were clear distinctions made by Arabs between Zionists and Jews. An example of this Shohat provides was from the manifesto of the first Palestinian convention of February 1919 and “a Nazareth area petition” distributed during massive protests in 1920 which went on to denounce the Balfour Declaration, stating in part that “the Jews are people of our country who lived with us before the occupation, they are our brothers, people of our country and all the Jews of the world are our brothers.”

Shohat notes that not only did Zionism aim to uproot Arab-Jewish communities in Palestine but that the Sephardim were made to choose between what she called an “anti-Zionist “Arabness” and a pro-Zionist “Jewishness”, and so “for the first time in Sephardi history”, she writes, "Arabness and Jewishness were posed as antonym”…