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Haymarket books which has loads of great left-wing titles perfect for dig listeners like you. One that you might like is on Edward

Saeed, remembrance of things passed by Hamid Debashi. Edward Saeed was a towering figure in post-colonial studies

and in the struggle for justice in his native Palestine,

best known for his critique of Orientalism

in Western portrayals of the Middle East.

As a public intellectual, activist, and scholar, Saeed forever changed how we read the world

around us and left an indelible mark on subsequent generations.

Hamid Debashi, himself a leading thinker and critical public voice,

offers a unique collection of reminiscences, travel logs, and essays that

document his own close and longstanding scholarly, personal, and political relationship with Saeed.

In the process, they place the enduring significance of Edward Saeed's legacy

in an unfolding context and locate his work within the moral imagination and environment of the time.

On Edward Saeed, remembrance of things passed by Hamid Debashi, out now from Haymarket Books.

The Dig is taking this week off so we can chill a bit and so I can catch up on my reading.

Here is one of my favorite episodes from the archives from January 2019, Melinda Cooper on her

extraordinary book Family Values Between Neoliberalism and the new social conservatism,

which makes the case that neoliberalism and social conservatism

have been consistent collaborators in creating an economy

that redistributed wealth ruthlessly upwards with a risk-absorbing family at its privatized center.

If you've been listening to our recent episodes on

neoliberalism with Wendy Brown and Stephanie Mudge, this one with Cooper

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