On May 12, almost exactly as Berlusconi’s new government began fulfilling its promise to criminalize, hunt down, and deport migrants (accompanied by some only semi-official bloodletting), U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement raided a meat-packing plant in the town of Postville, Iowa, population 2,000. (more…)
S0metim3s has tagged me with the passion-quilt meme, the instructions of which are as follows: Post a picture or make/take/create your own that captures what YOU are most passionate for students to learn about. Give your picture a short title. Title your blog post “Meme: Passion Quilt.” Link back to the blog entry which tagged you. Include links to 5 (or more) educators. (more…)
(Since I’ve been reading the proprietor of Yoknapatawpha County a lot lately, I’m instituting a new feature: Tuesday Faulkner. But please, as with most things around here, don’t expect any regularity.)
Under English common law, people seeking immunity from prosecution could find refuge in a church, where they could safely stay for up to forty days, after which time they had to declare either their innocence, in which case they would face a trial, or their guilt, which earned them eternal banishment from the country. Both the sacred place of refuge and the legal process became known as sanctuary, which of course derives from the Latin word sanctus, meaning holy. Sanctuary, then, was the place and the process in which the accused were afforded a respite from the law, in which the holy entity of the church suspended the state’s juridical functioning. (more…)
Wendy Brown, laying out one of the “four lines” along which “the market is the organizing and regulative principle of the state and society,” from her essay “Neo-liberalism and the End of Liberal Democracy”: (more…)
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