By Laleh Khalili I completed the first draft of the manuscript for Time in the Shadows in January 2011, just as the convulsions of the Arab “intifada” of 2011 started moving east from Tunisia. I remember vertiginous moments of joy,… Continue Reading
Primary Materials Malcolm Gladwell’s episode on Saigon ’65: https://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/02-saigon-1965 Bernard E. Harcourt, The Counterrevolution: How Our Government Went to War Against Its Own Citizens (Basic Books, 2018) (excerpt here; book review here; other materials here) Laleh Khalili, Time in the Shadows:… Continue Reading
By Julian Brave NoiseCat In 2016, as Donald Trump ascended to the highest office in the land with the revanchist slogan, “Make America Great Again,” Indigenous peoples gathered on the banks of the Mni Sose, or Missouri River, just north of… Continue Reading
Nicole Willis is a political consultant and government affairs specialist and also serves as the Tribal Relations Director for the City of Seattle. She has worked on numerous campaigns and recently spent a year working with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe… Continue Reading
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a renowned Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer and artist, who has been widely recognized as one of the most compelling Indigenous voices of her generation. Her work breaks open the intersections between politics, story and song—bringing audiences into… Continue Reading
Malcolm Timothy Gladwell CM is an English-born Canadian journalist, author, and speaker. He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996. He has written five books, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (2000), Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (2005), Outliers:… Continue Reading
Bernard E. Harcourt is a contemporary critical theorist, justice advocate, and the author most recently of The Counterrevolution: How Our Government Went to War Against Its Own Citizens (Basic Books, 2018). He is the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of… Continue Reading
Jeremy K. Kessler is Associate Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. His forthcoming book Fortress of Liberty: The Rise and Fall of the Draft and the Remaking of American Law (Harvard) explores how legal and political contests over the military… Continue Reading
Laleh Khalili’s first book, Heroes and Martyrs of Palestine: The Politics of National Commemoration(Cambridge 2007) drew on ethnographic research in the Palestinian refugee camp of Burj al-Barajna in Lebanon and focussed on the particular genres of commemoration – from the heroic… Continue Reading
Manan Ahmed, Assistant Professor, is interested in the relationship between text, space and narrative. His areas of specialization include Muslim intellectual history in South and Southeast Asia; critical philosophy of history, early modern and modern South Asia. His monograph, A Book of Conquest:… Continue Reading