Tag: Sociology

July 23, 2014

Pierre Bourdieu's Photographs of Algeria

In today’s post, we are re-posting some of the photographs from Picturing Algeria (now available in paper). The extraordinary photographs were taken during the years of 1957-1960 when Bourdieu was working there as a university lecturer. Taken during the Algerian...

April 4, 2014

What You Can Do to End Slavery

This week our featured book is Survivors of Slavery: Modern-Day Slave Narratives by Laura T. Murphy. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as on our Twitter feed...

April 3, 2014

The Story of James Kofi Annan

This week our featured book is Survivors of Slavery: Modern-Day Slave Narratives by Laura T. Murphy. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as on our Twitter feed...

April 2, 2014

Survivors of Modern Slavery Speak

This week our featured book is Survivors of Slavery: Modern-Day Slave Narratives by Laura T. Murphy. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as on our Twitter feed...

April 1, 2014

The Allure of Work

This week our featured book is Survivors of Slavery: Modern-Day Slave Narratives by Laura T. Murphy. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as on our Twitter feed...

May 3, 2013

David A. Nibert – New Welfarism, Veganism, and Capitalism

Read “New Welfarism, Veganism, and Capitalism,” an excerpt from Animal Oppression and Human Violence, by David A. Nibert.

May 2, 2013

David A. Nibert – A History of Domesecration, Part 2

Read the second of an essay by David A. Nibert, author of Animal Oppression and Human Violence, in which he discusses the pernicious effect the domesecration of animals has on humankind.

May 1, 2013

David A. Nibert – A History of Domesecration, Part 1

Read the first part of an essay by David A. Nibert, author of Animal Oppression and Human Violence, in which he discusses the history of the phenomenon of the oppression of nonhuman animals by humans.

April 30, 2013

Read the Introduction of Animal Oppression and Human Violence

Read the introduction to David A. Nibert’s Animal Oppression and Human Violence.

August 2, 2012

C. Wright Mills and the New York Intllectuals

“As his peers drifted rightward, Mills lurched to the Left, at a time when such a move was decidedly unfashionable.”—Stanley Aronowitz In Taking it Big: C. Wright Mills and the Making of Political Intellectuals, Stanley Aronowitz describes the uneasy intellectual...

July 31, 2012

Interview with Stanley Aronowitz

“If [Mills] were alive today, in 2012, he would be very skeptical of, if not oppositional to, people like Obama and the Democratic Party.”—Stanley Aronowitz In a recent interview with The Brooklyn Rail Stanley Aronowitz discussed his new book on...

May 11, 2012

More Photographs by Pierre Bourdieu via "Picturing Algeria"

In today’s post, we offer some more photographs from Picturing Algeria. The extraordinary photographs were taken during the years of 1957-1960 when Bourdieu was working there as a university lecturer. Taken during the Algerian War, Bourdieu’s photography offer a sympathetic...