Stodden Lind was one of the principal activist intellectuals who made the radical argument that the US intervention in Vietnam was illegal under domestic and international law. This collection could not come at a more important moment in the wake of Stodden Lind's death, an important intervention at this time of the United States' renewed war mongering in the South China Sea. Sarah Jaffe: In these cultural forms that are deemed typical among American liberals and also leftists, identity politics is going to land us in a form of politics that slides into the therapeutic. Daniel Denver: Identity politics has become a specter that haunts right wing so-called anti woke politics. And it's become a liberal politics
Featuring Nadia Abu El-Haj on Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in Post-9/11 America. How the civil-military divide makes troops into super citizens and what it means that agents of state violence are turning to the grammar of identity politics—and more. The second in a two-part interview.
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