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Toronto and Back
I expected to be relatively un-busy during my four-month stay in Toronto, but I should have known better. Had I been in blogging mode I would have touched on many things: the course I taught at York University, which focused a critical psychology/anarchist lens on societal institutions; other talks I gave in Toronto on related [...]
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Course prep, other things
As usual during long gaps between postings, I’ve been busy. Most substantively, I’ve been getting ready to spend the fall semester at York University in Toronto – drafting a tentative syllabus for the seminar I’ll be teaching, devising a list of required/optional/recommended books (and reading a few I hadn’t gotten to yet), making my way [...]
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More on Israel’s democracy/Jewishness conundrum, and my own
On an NPR talk show this morning about the usefulness of tomorrow’s Barack Obama-Mahmoud Abbas meeting, Juan Cole was skeptical about progress toward a Palestinian state. One caller went on at length calling Cole an anti-Semite for departing from what seemed to her Israel’s obviously justified position about, well, just about everything.
Then my email brought [...]
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Toronto Course: Psychology and Society in Critical Perspective
Thanks to a Fulbright award, I’ll be teaching at York University in Toronto for the fall 2009 semester, doing some other talks, and fitting in some Ontario travel. I’ve only been to Toronto a few times for conferences, so I’m looking forward to more extensive wandering.
My seminar, for graduate students and advanced undergraduates, is called [...]
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Questions for APA on torture and more
The American Psychological Association’s actions since the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington have generated swift responses from psychologists objecting to APA’s role as government agent. Although I hadn’t been an APA member for some time, in October 2001 Isaac Prilleltensky and I wrote a short statement objecting to APA’s self-serving response. A month [...]
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Hilda Silverman Memorial with Sandy Tolan
I just got back from a memorial for Hilda Silverman, a Boston-area activist who died a year ago at 69. I knew Hilda as a mainstay of the local Jewish peace community, relentlessly working to change inaccurate perceptions about causes and consequences, determined to challenge even those she worked with to not lose sight of [...]
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Anarchists Against the Wall on tour, on theory, in practice
I neglected to post anything two weeks ago when Shachaf Polakow of Israel’s Anarchists Against the Wall came through Boston on a fund-raising tour. (Since Israel has started arresting rather than simply tear-gassing and shooting Israelis and Palestinians engaged in non-violent anti-Occupation efforts, legal costs have escalated beyond $100,000. If you can, help; the money [...]
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Duncan Kennedy on Gaza
Last night I went to hear a panel discussion featuring Noam Chomsky, Stephen Walt, Irene Gendzier, and Duncan Kennedy at Boston University’s Law School. The central topic was the US role in the Israel-Palestinian conflict. All four panelists are critical of US support for Israel; the moderator told us that academics on the other side [...]
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Second Edition of Critical Psychology: An Introduction
In other areas of my life, the second edition of my co-edited book Critical Psychology: An Introduction has finally arrived in the mail. The first edition, which I put together with my longtime critpsy collaborator Isaac Prilleltensky, was published in 1997. It’s still in print, but Sage, the publisher, finally persuaded us a couple of [...]
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Selected Quotes: Israeli Election, Democracy, 1920s History
1. An article about today’s election on the Jerusalem Post website:
In Meretz, veteran politicians hoped [to...] re-energize the party. With a predicted four seats in the Knesset according to the exit polls, [Haim] Oron … pledged that Meretz would “return to be a central factor in the establishment of a Zionist, social-democratic left-wing, dovish and [...]
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