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ThePrintCutTheClutter: SC interim order halts Gyanvapi, Sambhal, Ajmer, all mandir-masjid claims, invokes secular questionIn landmark order, 3-judge bench led by CJI Sanjiv Khanna restricted all courts from passing interim/final orders, ordering surveys in pending suits challenging Places of Worship Act. Top court also directed the Centre to file an affidavit in two weeks, expediting resolution of constitutional challenge to 1991 law. In Episode 1571 of #CutTheClutter, ThePrint Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta discusses what it says, and its implications for Gyanvapi, Sambhal and Ajmer Sharif cases. 2024-12-1318 min

ThePrintCutTheCLutter: Places of Worship Act: Implications of SC interim order on Gyanvapi, Sambhal, Ajmer disputesIn landmark order, 3-judge bench led by CJI Sanjiv Khanna restricted all courts from passing interim/final orders, ordering surveys in pending suits challenging Places of Worship Act. Top court also directed the Centre to file an affidavit in two weeks, expediting resolution of constitutional challenge to 1991 law. In Episode 1571 of #CutTheClutter, ThePrint Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta discusses what it says, and its implications for Gyanvapi, Sambhal and Ajmer Sharif cases. 2024-12-1218 min

Sociology for Dark TimesCampus activism across the spectrum. Amy Binder, Johns Hopkins UniversityOver the last few months, students on college campuses all over the world have been protesting the mass slaughter in Gaza. I was one of the majority of faculty at UMass Amherst who supported our students’ encampment, and then opposed our administration’s violent assault on it. In this episode I talk with Amy Binder, whose book with Jeffrey Kidder, The Channels of Student Activism: How the Left and Right Are Winning (and Losing) in Campus Politics Today (2022) is one of the few analyses of student activism on U.S. college campuses after 2016. Their study is based in flagship stat...2024-08-041h 10

ClassThe Ongoing Crisis of American Politics, Pt. 2Send us a textSend us a Text Message.This is the second part of our conversation with Sanjiv Gupta and Paul Heideman about U.S. politics, conflict within the Republican Party, and the current state of American democracy. We invited Saniv and Paul back onto the podcast as a follow-up to their 2022 presentation at the Socialism Conference in Chicago. Sanjiv Gupta is a member of the River Valley DSA chapter in Western Massachusetts and a sociologist at UMass-Amherst. Paul Heideman is a writer and high school teacher in NYC. He is...2024-05-2924 min

ClassThe Ongoing Crisis of American Politics, Pt. 1Send us a textIn today’s episode, we talk with Sanjiv Gupta and Paul Heideman about U.S. politics, conflict within the Republican Party, and the current state of American democracy. We invited Saniv and Paul back onto the podcast as a follow-up to their 2022 presentation at the Socialism Conference in Chicago. Sanjiv Gupta is a member of the River Valley DSA chapter in Western Massachusetts and a sociologist at UMass-Amherst. Paul Heideman is a writer and high school teacher in NYC. He is the editor of Class Struggle and the Color Line...2024-05-1929 min

Promptly Speaking: An IBPAP Official PodcastS01E03: Sanjiv GuptaWelcome to Episode 3 of Promptly Speaking: An IBPAP Official Podcast! In this episode, we speak with Sanjiv Gupta, President and Country Head of IBM Global Delivery Services in the Philippines. Sanjiv shares his story of answering an important call that led him to the Philippines, and how he adopted the Filipino culture and became a champion for Philippine tech talent.2024-04-2647 min

Sociology for Dark TimesPalestine, Israel and the crisis of the nation state. Stellan Vinthagen, UMass-AmherstA few weeks ago, Hamas murdered hundreds of unarmed people in Israel, including many children and elderly. The sadism and depravity of this killing spree was remarkable even by the standards of the long history of violence against Jews. Israel has responded with characteristic savagery, killing more than 10,000 Palestinians, including thousands of children. This orgy of collective punishment has also reduced much of Gaza to rubble and dust.My conversation with Stellan Vinthagen offers one sociological perspective on the war based on his work on resistance and social movements. We also reflect on the origins and limits...2023-11-2148 min

Sociology for Dark TimesRelational inequality! Prudence Carter, former ASA President / Brown UniversityOur conversation previews a few themes from Prudence’s presidential address at the ASA annual meeting in Philadelphia this weekend. Prudence identifies key deficiencies of liberal democracies like the U.S. that have allowed the social and political regression we’re witnessing now. She has some pointed suggestions for what we sociologists should be doing in this regressive moment. Specifically, we discuss the case of affirmative action in the U.S. Prudence Carter is the Sarah and Joseph Jr. Dowling Professor of Sociology at Brown University. Before that, she was Dean of the Graduate School of Education at Be...2023-08-1656 min

Sociology for Dark TimesLabor on the move! Eric Blanc, Rutgers UniversityIs organized labor in the U.S. making a comeback? Over the last few years, unionization efforts have proliferated across the service sector, in Amazon, Trader Joe’s, Starbucks, just to name a few. The movie and TV industry is facing rare, simultaneous strikes by writers and actors. By early August, more than 300,000 UPS workers may be on strike, which would be the largest private sector strike in the US in several decades. My guest this month is Eric Blanc, assistant professor of labor studies at Rutgers University. Eric studies strikes, new workplace organizing, digital labor activism, an...2023-07-1852 min

Sociology for Dark TimesCommunity engagement! Nadia Kim, Texas A & MWithin the next week or so, the US Supreme Court may end affirmative action as we know it. The path to this began in 1997, when the University of Michigan was sued for its affirmative action programs. My guest this month is Nadia Kim, who like me was a sociology graduate student in Michigan at the time of those lawsuits. We were both organizers for Academics for Affirmative Action and Social Justice, a group doing activism and education in our community in support of affirmative action. Even as affirmative action may end, however, movements like Black Lives Matter have dramatically...2023-06-2554 min

Sociology for Dark TimesSociological imagination! Anna Branch, Rutgers UniversityThis month I spoke with Anna Branch, sociologist and senior Vice President of equity at Rutgers University. Of all the sociologists I’ve talked with so far, Anna was the first to question my starting point that these are especially dark times. She asked, dark compared to when, and for whom? We discussed this in the context of Anna and Catherine Hanley’s new book Work in Black and White: Striving for the American Dream, and also the looming rollback of affirmative action by the US Supreme Court later this summer. We also talked about the possibilities for solidarity betw...2023-05-2948 min

Sociology for Dark TimesSolidaristic research! Leslie McCall, CUNYFor this episode I talked with Leslie McCall of the City University of New York. Leslie wonders if we should be asking different kinds of research questions, focusing on the possibilities for solidarity among the majority of people in the U.S. She’s particularly critical of how we, as social scientists, frame our research about political polarization. Instead of focusing so intensely on divisions among people, she argues, we should be studying how the ultra wealthy and powerful are able to thwart the will of the majority in reducing economic inequality, for example.Leslie McCall is As...2023-04-0350 min

Sociology for Dark TimesNew mass movement! Cedric de Leon, UMass-AmherstEverything all at once: Wars. Pandemics. Climate change. Neoliberalism. Authoritarianism. White supremacy...I ask my fellow sociologists the following questions: How can we, as sociologists, intervene in this moment, individually or collectively? How has their work changed over the last few years in response to the times? What are their sources of hope for change?Cedric de Leon tells us, among other things, about Du Bois as an exemplary public sociologist and the under recognized role of Black activists in the U.S. labor movement. Cedric calls for a “new eclectic mass movement” for economic democracy with labo...2023-02-2053 min

Sociology for Dark TimesPublic sociology! Joya Misra, ASA President / UMass-AmherstEverything all at once: Wars. Pandemics. Climate change. Neoliberalism. Authoritarianism. White supremacy...I ask my fellow sociologists the following questions: How can we, as sociologists, intervene in this moment, individually or collectively? How has their work changed over the last few years in response to the times? What are their sources of hope for change?My inaugural guest is Joya Misra, President-Elect of the American Sociological Association. We discuss what sociologists can or should do now, the history of the discipline, of ASA, possibilities for public sociology, and for child care policy in the U.S.2023-01-0447 min

Sociology for Dark TimesJoya Misra, UMass-AmherstMy inaugural guest is Joya Misra, President-Elect of the American Sociological Association. We discuss the history of sociology, of ASA, possibilities for public sociology, and the prospects for child care policy in the U.S.Joya is Provost Professor and the Roy J. Zuckerberg Endowed Leadership Chair at UMass-Amherst, and a Professor in both Sociology and the School of Public Policy. Joya’s work focuses on multiple dimensions of social inequality, including by gender and parenthood status. She considers how policies can reinforce or reduce inequality in societies and workplaces. https://blogs.umass.edu/misra/2023-01-0447 min

ClassThe Crisis of American Politics: Socialists and Liberal Democracy Pt. 2Send us a textThe Republican Party is the biggest threat to our liberal democracy, and we cannot depend on the liberals to defend our liberal democracy. How then should we as democratic socialists spearhead the fight for democracy and worker power?Socialism 2022 Conference, Chicago“The Crisis of American Politics: Socialists and Liberal Democracy”, part 2.Moderator: Griffin MahonPanelists: Sanjiv Gupta, Paul HeidemanSanjiv Gupta is a member of the River Valley DSA chapter in Western Massachusetts, and is a sociologist at UMass-Amherst. I personally discovered Sanjiv first from his exce...2022-12-0814 min

ClassThe Crisis of American Politics: Socialists and Liberal Democracy Pt. 1Send us a textThe Republican Party is the biggest threat to our liberal democracy, and we cannot depend on the liberals to defend our liberal democracy. How then should we as democratic socialists spearhead the fight for democracy and worker power?Socialism 2022 Conference, Chicago“The Crisis of American Politics: Socialists and Liberal Democracy”, part 1.Moderator: Griffin MahonPanelists: Sanjiv Gupta, Paul HeidemanSanjiv Gupta is a member of the River Valley DSA chapter in Western Massachusetts, and is a sociologist at UMass-Amherst. I personally discovered Sanjiv first from his exce...2022-11-2426 min

ClassWhat is Capitalism? Pt. 4 Keeanga-Yamahttah Taylor's #BlackLivesMatter to Black LiberationSend us a textFeaturing University of Massachusetts Amherst Sociologist Sanjiv Gupta and University of Massachusetts Amherst Economist David Kotz. This episode is a part of a 4-part series on “What is Capitalism?” This series is accompanying the DSA National Political Education Committee’s curriculum packet, which can find our curriculum at https://education.dsausa.org/resources/.This chapter, from a book published in 2016 at the time after the first Black Lives Matter protests, introduces the complex interactions between racism and capitalism in the U.S. Taylor reiterates CLR James’ assertion...2022-10-2718 min

ClassWhat is Capitalism? Pt. 3 Marx & Engels' "Bourgeois and Proletarians” from the Communist ManifestoSend us a textFeaturing University of Massachusetts Amherst Sociologist Sanjiv Gupta and University of Massachusetts Amherst Economist David Kotz. This is episode 3 of a 4-part series on “What is Capitalism?” This series is accompanying the DSA National Political Education Committee’s curriculum packet, which can find our curriculum at https://education.dsausa.org/resources/.This episode goes into classes and class struggle under capitalism. The discussion is in response to a chapter from the Communist Manifesto about us, the working class, and the capitalists class. The Communist Manifesto was written just as the...2022-10-1322 min

ClassWhat is Capitalism? Pt. 2 Vivek Chibber's Understanding CapitalismSend us a textFeaturing University of Massachusetts Amherst Sociologist Sanjiv Gupta and University of Massachusetts Amherst Economist David Kotz. This is episode 1 of a 4-part series on “What is Capitalism?” This series is accompanying the DSA National Political Education Committee’s curriculum packet, which can find our curriculum at https://education.dsausa.org/resources/.This episode covers a passage from “Understanding Capitalism” by Vivek Chibber, in which he goes into the history of how capitalism came into being and how capitalism works. Under capitalism people sell things on a market, no...2022-09-2917 min

ClassWhat is Capitalism? Pt. 1 Erik Olin Wright's But at Least Capitalism Is Free and Democratic, Right?Send us a textFeaturing University of Massachusetts Amherst Sociologist Sanjiv Gupta and University of Massachusetts Amherst Economist David Kotz. This is episode 1 of a 4-part series on “What is Capitalism?” This series is accompanying the DSA National Political Education Committee’s curriculum packet, which can find our curriculum at https://education.dsausa.org/resources/.This episode covers “But at Least Capitalism Is Free and Democratic, Right?” by Erik Olin Wright in which Olin Wright takes the common assumption that capitalism grants us freedom and lays out simply how that’s not the case. The wor...2022-08-1716 min