Tweet Reposted from November 7, 2008 at “The Immanent Frame” at the SSCR: Something extraordinary happened on November 4. And even those who did not vote for Barack Obama knew that they had entered a new world after 11.00 PM that night, when he was declared the victor and gave a great, short speech....
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Tweet Image via Wikipedia From October 15, 2008 posted at “The Immanent Frame” at the SSCR: Last week as I listened, along with many other Americans and others around the world, to President Bush’s most recent effort to reassure us about the current economic meltdown I had a “Road to Damascus” moment. It happened...
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Tweet Welcome to ArjunAppadurai.Org, a site I am dedicating to create a global classroom so to speak by hosting dialog and debate on questions I find particularly stimulating and pertinent to today’s shifting world. I will pose questions that reach back throughout my career in Cultural Anthropology, Globalization, and India, while bringing fresh inquiries...
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