I am pooped out right now, so I will not be writing much-just got back from a red songs competition that LIESMARS ( The geoinfomatics department at Wuhan University) was competing in against the other schools and departments. Everyone went to great effort...

One of my favorite sites is China Smack, there I can read in English the stories circulating around the Chinese language internet. I can relate to many of the posts that deal with eveyday life here and the tensions of a social formation rapidly undergoing...

Yesterday I was supposed to go on a weekend trip to the country. That did not happen because of flash flooding here in Wuhan, which made travel from my house to the train station impossible. Instead of having a weekend get away I am stuck here in the...

As a place/event, the United States continues to be shaped by the contradiction between a civic and universal construction of nationality and a blood and soil ethnic construction. In the United States, the racial binary structures social life; the struggle...

As a state form classical fascism ended in a Berlin Bunker in 1945 but as an ideological movement it continues on. There are continuities as well as discontinuities between periods as socially produced space/time is sedimented, never completely disappearing...

.In our historical context, a fascist state or fascist movement plays a different role than in the time of Hitler or Mussolini. Locations of known fascist groups can be interrogated as point patterns and aggregated to territorial areas so as to expose...