In response to Jeffrey Gettleman’s NYTimes article “Future Kenya Port Could Mar Pristine Land“:
I lived in a traditional house in Lamu for a bit and also did a home-stay with a Muslim man’s “second wife” and I think gettleman is romanticising this ‘culturally pristine’ site where socially sanctioned (informal) slavery still exists, Muslim women hardly [...]
Footnotes
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Lamu
Check out my new post “Fun is Political in a Safe-Haven for Anti-Chavistas, Catholics and Witches” at Blue-Eyed Devil: Witnessing Life Under Chavez.
Also on Blue-Eyed Devil, you’ll find:
“What 1 Pen and 2 Power Cords Cost Us”
and
“My first week in Caracas“
Notice
I have created a blog only pertaining to my time spent in Venezuela. All subsequent posts will be accessible here
Notes from Caracas
After having returned from 5 months of fieldwork in rural Poland where I encountered the horrors of post-socialist transition (still underway), I am excited to start my year living in Venezuela where Chavez has been unveiling the road to socialism for the past 11 years. I hope to be (not the first, but one nonetheless) a [...]
Communism Still Matters
This is in response to Slate article: Anne Applebaum: 1989 And All That (special thanks to Dr. Frank Popper at Rutgers and Princeton universities for pointing it out to me).
Applebaum is correct: Communism still matters in Eastern Europe (and in the West) but I disagree that there really ought to be a controversy taking place as [...]
Mexican Protest
Anti-corruption protest led by indigenous farmers along Reforma Avenue in Mexico City.