Don’t let the cute face fool you: Dale Lately of The Baffler reports how an increasing number of police officers are joining Facebook in trolling internet pages for “pre-crime” in the making.
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Monica Eppinger, one of the contributors to our Forum “What’s Going on in Ukraine?“, also happens to be Assistant Professor at the Saint Louis University School of Law, which offers her a unique insight on one of our other recent Forums “#Ferguson and Elsewhere“. Over at her other blog, the Comparative Law Prof Blog, she has some interesting reflections on the two. Here’s just a snippet:
Serhiy Nigoyan memorial, Ukraine (c) Monica Eppinger 2014
Two commonalities invite comparison between late summer in Ferguson and deep winter in Kyiv. First is the form of public action, street protest. It speaks of an electorate that, despite a polity’s record of holding fair elections, resorts to alternatives to usual democratic processes. The second, and most striking, commonality is the kind of spark that ignited protest, the relationship between citizen death at the hands of police and public assessments of state legitimacy.
Ukraine Roundtable
Memorials for the dead along Institutka St. © Jennifer Carroll
Both Allegra and Anthropoliteia have been busy covering the political developments in Ukraine and Crimea, so we decided to “collaborate” on our coverage by bringing together the various contributors to pause and reflect on the question: “What has struck you the most, or been most noteworthy, about the developments in Ukraine—from EuroMaidan to Crimea—so far?” Continue reading
Silencing and backtalk: Scenes from the Crimean Occupation
The editors of Anthropoliteia would again like to welcome the fifth in a series of special guest posts from Monica Eppinger as part of our developing Forum What’s Going on in Ukraine?
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There’s a phrase in Russian, tikhiy uzhas, “quiet horror”. For some in Crimea, that would summarize the week between March 4 and March 11 .
The neither/nor of a bloodless war in Crimea
The editors of Anthropoliteia would again like to welcome the third in a series of special guest posts from Monica Eppinger as part of our developing Forum What’s Going on in Ukraine?
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Crimea: On aesthetics, master narratives, and resistance
The editors of Anthropoliteia would again like to welcome the second in a series of special guest posts from Monica Eppinger as part of our developing Forum What’s Going on in Ukraine?
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