Dawn dismantles the social science edifice that makes it possible to think that the question “What are the origins of inequality?” has a meaningful answer located in wealth inequality.
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The Dawn of Everything
A Middle Eastern indigenous critique?
August 25, 2022
…I ask how Dawn might help us to think of the Americas and the Middle East together. What is to be gained by considering new geographies, by comparing two places rarely compared?…
August 25, 2022
The Dawn of Everything
Indigenous refusals and near others
August 18, 2022
Refusal is shorthand for saying, “We’ve seen this before and we don’t want it; and not only don’t we want it but we reject the very basis of the thinking and politics…
August 18, 2022
The Dawn of Everything
History is full of people with ideas
August 11, 2022
According to Graeber and Wengrow, European elites did not embrace naturalism and empiricism in their accounts of human history to shed religious epistemologies and institutions. Rather, Graeber and Wengrow argue that the…
August 11, 2022
The Dawn of Everything
Play astronauts and actual refugees
August 4, 2022
What does humankind’s ancient history have to do with our current existential predicaments? With millions of new refugees seeking to escape aerial attacks targeting civilians while billionaires playing at being astronauts seek…
August 4, 2022
The Dawn of Everything
Searching for better questions (while building a better world)
July 28, 2022
In Graeber and Wengrow’s book, as in my teaching practices, the questions are difficult not because they need to prove how smart the person posing them is. In radical pedagogy and scholarship,…
July 28, 2022
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