I’m an Assistant Professor in the Sociology & Anthropology Department at Simon Fraser University and I received my PhD in Sociology and Historical Studies at the New School for Social Resear…
In The Better Angels of Our Nature Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker argued that modern history has witnessed a dramatic decline in human violence of every kind, and that in the…
The reactions to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine among German-speaking far-right actors were more diverse than expected. Different understandings of both Russia and Uk…
[Cross-posted from New Books in Genocide Studies] In our fast-paced world, it is easy to move from one crisis to another. Conflicts loom in rapid succession, problems demand solutions (or…
I recently watched this video “UnBreaking Birth” – a lecture by Ryan McAllister. It is basically a version of the lecture I have given a couple of times…
