Teaching sociology and studying global cities, social movements, & mega-events. Lecturer of Sociology @EmmanuelCollege. he/him
Boston, MA
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Dr. Sam Maron retweeted
The results are in, the members of the American Sociological Association have spoken:
THE ASA MEMBER RESOLUTION FOR JUSTICE IN PALESTINE HAS PASSED!!! 🇵🇸❤️
We are so deeply grateful for you all. Onwards to a free Palestine!
Dr. Sam Maron retweeted
Lots of folks are trying to figure out what generative AI means for teaching. Catherine Yeh and I wrote a little piece to help demystify and provide sociological context. It will be out in Contexts soon(ish), but until then, the preprint is here. osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/bq…
Dr. Sam Maron retweeted
🧵In Houston, freeway widening will demolish hundreds of homes in the primarily Black & Latino neighborhoods Independence Hts. & Near Northside, building on decades of the gov't using highway construction to segregate cities & destroy communities of color.
nytimes.com/interactive/2022…
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Boston 2024's boosters often talked about London 2012 as a model, despite it going billions of dollars over budget. A decade after the Games, it's clear that London 2012 was also a failure as an exercise in city planning and building. theguardian.com/uk-news/2022… #mapoli
Dr. Sam Maron retweeted
Your annual reminder that Dr. King believed in guaranteed universal basic income that gave all people a dignified life, guaranteed housing for all, guaranteed access to a high quality education, & said that “no one should be forced to live in poverty while others live in luxury.”
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“… I came to theory because I was hurting—the pain within me was so intense that I could not go on living. I came to theory desperate, wanting to comprehend—to grasp what was happening around & within me… I saw in theory then a location for healing.” bell hooks.
Dr. Sam Maron retweeted
CONGRATULATIONS Dr. Sam Maron!! A brilliant and insightful dissertation defense on urban futures, neoliberalism, activism, and the Olympics! 🎉🎉 – at Philadelphia, PA
Dr. Sam Maron retweeted
This rule was an unjust attack on our right to organize, plain and simple. GENU members joined grad unions across the country in submitting public comments and holding events to prevent it from being enacted, and on March 15th we will have officially succeeded! #WeAreWorkers #1u
Dr. Sam Maron retweeted
Interrupting your doomscrolling with more good news. As most had expected, the vaccines continue to work well against the new variants. Our problem remains producing enough of these amazing vaccines and getting them out there in arm. They are so good that we have a lot of buffer.
The neutralization teams have a message:
"Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine Retains Neutralizing Activity Against Emerging Variants First Identified in the U.K. and the Republic of South Africa"
Sorry to those who I've been ignoring yin this regard for weeks lol teapawt.net/moderna_tx/status/1353…
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This is what I mean when I say that @UNFCCC negotiations have largely been a failure. Progress on climate change has to come from action not the proliferation of documents. – at Philadelphia, PA
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It’s impossible to fully convey the rage I feel when I think about the fact that there are over 500 children who were stripped away from their parents at the border and now haven’t seen them in years. I look at my two kids, imagining if it were them, and I almost want to explode.
Dr. Sam Maron retweeted
*Naming* that group rather than sticking to generic "white supremacists" is terrible turning point. It's direct-to-Google instructions to them. Yes, it matters. Ideologies don't coalesce by themselves, but in social interactions, groups, and through these amplification processes.
Dr. Sam Maron retweeted
"Because the dominant framing of face coverings is that they are foreign, a sign of submission, and an assault to American values, our country is now unable to cover when it is literally an issue of life and death." My latest for the @The_Revealer therevealer.org/islamophobia…
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Receiving yet another email with precipitous changes in his institution's COVID-19 policy, the grad student yearns for any sense of stability.
ALT LGS leans against his bed and looks at the screen of his phone. He is not wearing any pants.
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NEW OP-ED: Who is responsible for a COVID-19 outbreak at Northeastern?
“Northeastern asks individual students to protect the pack. I ask Northeastern, instead, to shoulder the responsibility and protect the community,” writes Cara Marta Messina.
huntnewsnu.com/62973/editori…
Dr. Sam Maron retweeted
It's 4 years since Rio2016.
LA is not Rio—at surface level their Olympics will look very different. But if we ask what kind of city is constructed through the Olympic project, the similarities start to stack up.
knock-la.com/from-rio-to-la-…
@ComitePopularRJ @NOlympicsLA @RioOnWatch
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We stand with our international colleagues, today and always. Read and share our statement on yesterday's announcement:
ALT The Organizing Committee of the Graduate Employees of Northeastern University - UAW stands in solidarity with international students at Northeastern and universities across the US whose visas are threatened by the latest xenophobic ploy by the Trump Administration. The ICE Student Exchange and Visa Program rule modifications announced July 6th are designed to force universities to reopen in the fall by threatening deportation for international students who will take their courses remotely. This represents an affront to the health and safety of our community and must be challenged immediately. We call on Northeastern to oppose these policies publicly and unequivocally and join with other universities to use their institutional power to demand autonomy in deciding how and when to reopen campuses without threat of student deportation. We are committed to protecting our students, members, and colleagues. Not one Northeastern student will be deported without a fight. nugradworkers@gmail
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Your regular reminder that poverty is a public policy choice and things don’t have to be this way.
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White people in academia! Read this along with #BlackintheIvory. It’s a privilege to not have a story like the ones Black scholars are sharing and to not face constant confrontations about our right to be here. Racism pervades academia and its time we step up and confront it. – at Philadelphia, PA
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Dr. Sam Maron retweeted
How to save higher ed? My view is we need to tax for education, re-establish higher ed as a public good, and understand that colleges and universities are thoroughly woven into the economy, and should be leveraged for economic policy:
nytimes.com/2020/06/05/opini…
