Posted on 05/10/2016 9:42:31 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
I am so sorry I am only finding out about this now, a day late. I would have flown across the country to attend. Imagine the acrobatics Ghassan Hage had to perform in order to make this even remotely plausible, even with the audience so eager to be fooled that he undoubtedly had. On the other hand, if the dim-bulb “Islamophobia”-fearmonger Haroon Moghul (that’s right, “Dwayne”) could sell Time Magazine on the idea that “Islamophobia” is responsible for America’s crumbling infrastructure, academic audiences these days may be even stupider than I thought.
“Is ISLAMOPHOBIA accelerating global warming?,” MIT Global Studies and Languages, May 9, 2016 (thanks to Faisal Saeed AlMutar):
The Ecology and Justice Forum In Global Studies And Languages Presents: Ghassan Hage
Ghassan Hage is Future Generation Professor in the School of Philosophy, Anthropology and Social Inquiry, University of Melbourne
Introduced By Bettina Stoetzer, Global Studies And Languages Mon. May 9 5:00 pm 2-105
This talk examines the relation between Islamophobia as the dominant form of racism today and the ecological crisis. It looks at the three common ways in which the two phenomena are seen to be linked: as an entanglement of two crises, metaphorically related with one being a source of imagery for the other and both originating in colonial forms of capitalist accumulation. The talk proposes a fourth way of linking the two: an argument that they are both emanating from a similar mode of being, or enmeshment, in the world, what is referred to as ‘generalised domestication.’
Ghassan Hage has held many visting positions across the world including in Harvard, University of Copenhagen, Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and American University of Beirut. He works in the comparative anthropology of nationalism, multiculturalism, diaspora and racism and on the relation between anthropology, philosophy and social and political theory. His most well-known work is White Nation: Fantasies of white supremacy in a multicultural society (Routledge 2000). His is also the author of Alter-Politics: Critical Anthropology and the Radical Imaginary (Melbourne University Press 2015). He is currently working on a book titled Is Islamophobia Accelerating Global Warming? and has most recently published a piece in American Ethnologist, titled: “Etat de Siege. A Dying Domesticating Colonialism?” (2016) that engages with the contemporary “refugee crisis” in Europe and beyond.
The talk is free and open to the public. Sponsored by Global Studies and Laguages, Global Borders Research Collaboration, MIT Anthropology
Can’t make this stuff up.
Maybe not so much I-slam crap but talking about it might.
What impact did the dust from the falling World Trade Center have on global warming?
Oh please! As Nell Carter used to say; Give Me A Break!
“Can’t make this stuff up.”
One quite literally cannot. Even parody pales by comparison.
Apparently Hage did.
Dafuq?
CC
Answer: Strawberry ice cream.
These are real live and breathing people who are coming up with this?
Where do I go to get to a Safe Zone to be shielded from them?
They’re so smart that they’re idiots.
I do not mind that Harvard us rotting. They produce nothing of value anyway.
But MIT?
How could their real scientists allow such crap, worthy only of English and Studies departments?
For shame.
MIT, you have a reputation to uphold.
Coming up with it and buying it!
Trump’s uncle was a Physics professor at MIT when they were a real school
Look up John G Trump
yes of course it does!
EVERYTHIG liberals hate causes global warming
MIT students aren't even educated enough to know that Islam isn't a race.
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