Performance as Politics on the Newsvine Stage. . .

Tue Jan 29, 2008 2:01 AM EST

When we began this experiment in turning the classroom inside out, I informed the graduate students in the class that we would be posting our reflections on the readings and classroom discussions on Newsvine.

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politics, passion, performance, pandp, pandamonium

In the New year Our Social Fabric Remains Threadbare

Sat Dec 29, 2007 2:11 PM EST

Re-posted reflections as we move forward toward New Year resolutions I've recently learned that FEMA plans to evict all residents from the FEMA parks by March... I can't seem to get FEMA parks off my mind lately...

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fema, terror, suicide, health, rape, mental, gender, trauma, depression, radical

Death Penalty-us:

Seeded on Sun Mar 18, 2007 7:56 PM EDT ( IPS Inter Press Service)

for a glimpse into the way our contemporary struggles over abolition are being perceived from abroad...

death-penalty, prison, world-news, abolition, critical-resistence

Tactical Media

Seeded on Sat Mar 10, 2007 5:23 PM EST (nyu.edu)

i like thinking of this site as a kind of living collection of communities of practice. there is room for lots of perspectives and there are some great conversations that have taken place here.

education

Heyday - Kurt Andersen - Books - Review - New York Times

Seeded on Sat Mar 10, 2007 2:59 PM EST (The New York Times)

Have a look at the article and the images used there. I cannot help but think of the work of Kara Walker (see: and lots of other locations for examples).

history, art, memory, kara-walker, enslavement

An Activist Returns To The Novel

Seeded on Sat Mar 10, 2007 9:52 AM EST (Common Dreams)

i've long been a fan of many of Roy's reflections on the connection between the small stories of everyday and non-spectacular politics between persons, and the larger more generally impacting structures of global relating.

Slave Descendants Lose Tribal Status

Seeded on Tue Mar 6, 2007 1:44 PM EST (The New York Times)

2,800 Cherokee citizens are ejected/deported from tribal membership ... one's person's sovereignty is another's nativism (makes the point a little better than 'racism' i think).

tribal, membership, cherokee, exclusion, racialization