Zachary Levenson
@grundrza.bsky.social
Sociology prof @ Florida International University, senior research associate @ University of Johannesburg, author of Delivery as Dispossession (Oxford UP, 2022), editor of Spectre, deputy editor of City & Community
Looking for more on the Vandy-Wash U report? Over at Critical Noise we are kicking off a forum on it with essays over the next few weeks from Roderick Ferguson, Zachary Levenson, Noelle McAfee, John Modern, Christopher Newfield, and Julia Schleck. First up is @grundrza.bsky.social Links below
Send a message to ASA executive leadership that we demand member democracy. The ASA must allow members a vote on the S4P resolution. Sign the pledge: Tinyurl.com/BoycottASA2026 Read more about how to join the ASA meeting boycott: sociologistsforpalestime.org/faqs
Join me, @prof-deleon.bsky.social, @hebagowayed.bsky.social, and Roi Livne on behalf of @soc4pal.bsky.social tomorrow (𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝟮𝟳) for a discussion of the ASA boycott campaign.
Read @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social 's review of @anniemcc.bsky.social 's Beneath the Wage ( Zone Books , @princetonupress.bsky.social ). Brouilette highlights the book's focus on the new terrains of antagonism and solidarity afforded by service labor. spectrejournal.com/service-with...
Service with a Scowl – Spectre Journal
Sarah Brouillette reviews Annie McClanahan's Beneath the Wage.
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Dreams do come true. I reviewed Annie McClanahan's Beneath the Wage in Spectre. My thanks to editors @grundrza.bsky.social and Camila Valle.
Service with a Scowl – Spectre Journal
Sarah Brouillette reviews Annie McClanahan's Beneath the Wage.
spectrejournal.com
On May 27, join us for an interactive session, where attendees will have the opportunity to engage S4P organizers directly on issues including boycott logistics, tactics and strategy, and support of junior scholars. Let’s show ASA what democracy looks like! TINYURL.COM/5RTW5EKX
Are you upset about the actions of the ASA leadership? Do you want a more democratic ASA, but are unsure of what to do? Support S4P's call to boycott the ASA registration fees and hotel block this August!
www.projectcensored.org/violation-ca... @nolanhigdon.bsky.social and Spectre boardmember @grundrza.bsky.social talking to Mickey Huff and @eleanorg.bsky.social at @projectcensored.bsky.social .
The Violation and Capitulation of Higher Education
Radio show on attacks on sociology and higher education — guests discuss censorship, corporatism, and resisting academic control.
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Tomorrow (4/14)! @grundrza.bsky.social @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social Register 👇🏽 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
I’ll be moderating this panel for the @asanews.bsky.social’s Global and Transnational Section a week from tomorrow, featuring geographer Yousuf Al-Bulushi, anthropologist Sami Hermez, historians Tithi Bhattacharya and Margaret Power, and sociologist @michaelrmuniz.bsky.social
An important reminder: The proposed resolution is NOT a boycott of individual Israeli academics. Per our FAQs, it does not target individual academics, nor does it prevent academics working at Israeli institutions from attending the ASA's annual meeting."
Zachary Levenson@grundrza.bsky.social · 5mo agoI’m wondering if your post is in reference to the proposed ASA resolution, which is explicit that it is targeting Israeli institutions rather than individual scholars. The folks involved work closely w/ critical Israeli scholars — no ban is proposed. This is from the @soc4pal.bsky.social website:
Making tenure count, for MSNOW I wrote about my employer, The University of Iowa, creating a center for intellectual freedom. It's a reactionary project built on decades of conservative propaganda about higher ed.
Opinion | Beware conservatives promoting “intellectual freedom”
Victor Ray: This conservative lie about schools like mine is furthering authoritarianism
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Thanks to all our authors from March! (Nazanin Shahrokni, Justin Reed, @lesja.bsky.social , Brandon Webb, Matthew Penney, Manuel Casique Herrera, and Cinzia Arruzza). Links to all these pieces in the thread 👇🏽 🧵
S4P rejects ASA leadership's authoritarian decision to bypass its own procedures & membership engagement re: our BDS resolution. If the resolution is not considered via existing procedures we will BOYCOTT the 2026 meeting. SIGN ON TO JOIN US: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Response to ASA's Letter to Membership on "ASA Policy, Member-Led Petitions, and ASA's Future"
NAMES WILL NEVER BE SENT TO THE ASA WITHOUT YOUR CONSENT, DATA WILL BE SUMMARIZED & SHARED PLEASE INDICATE BELOW IF YOU ARE WILLING TO HAVE YOUR NAME INCLUDED IN COMMUNICATIONS WITH THE ASA To memb...
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On Thursday, Florida's Board of Governors removed sociology from the general education curriculum of every university in the state. Chancellor Ray Rodrigues attacked the @asanews.bsky.social as illegitimate. On behalf of sociologists everywhere, I respond to them in today's @miamiherald.com:
Wildest to me about FL removing sociology from gen ed is their rationale: citing a Guardian article, Chancellor Rodrigues claims faculty are willfully subverting the law. But no one quoted makes that claim. Did he really only read the headline, which wasn't written by faculty in any case?