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Katharine Rankin is Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto. She has contributed broadly to scholarship on market and state formation through a decolonial, area-studies orientation engaging ethnographic approaches—and featuring case studies of infrastructure development, post-conflict and post-disaster governance, commercial gentrification, microfinance, and a trans-Himalayan trading entrepôt. Empirically these pursuits have transpired primarily in the country of Nepal where Rankin has long-standing linguistic and professional ...

A new book seeks to explain the relationship between transgender identity and Marxist theory but offers no coherent link between the two, writes SONYA ANDERMAHR

Yves here. The latest Israel-Palestine conflict has barely been declared over (despite skirmishes continuing) but the post-mortems are starting, in keeping with its significance. This was a victory for Netanyahu. As Barkely Rosser points out at Econospeak: With the welcome cease fire in Israel-Palestine, it looks like Bibi Netanyahu has achieved his near term goal of remaining prime minister of Israel, thus not only remaining power but also out of jail, with barely anybody noticing that he has done this. His rival, Yair Lapid, who was invited by President Reuvan Rivlin to form a government, w...

Yves here. The Israel-Palestine ceasefire is reportedly holding, despite skirmishes…which makes me wonder if this is merely a de-escalation under different branding. That would still be progress but much more tentative than a ceasefire. This article goes bigger picture and looks at how Israel’s winning of battles is losing it friends. I’ve been saying for some time that Israel is destined to find the US a less loyal ally over time; younger Jews don’t care about Israel all that much. And I even know some older Jews who decided they could not longer defend Israel after its 2006 invasion...

Leila Al-Shami is an activist and writer. She is co-author of Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War (Pluto Press 2016, 2018). She is currently active with the 100 Faces of the Syrian Revolution campaign.