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Tom Reifer

Associate Professor of Sociology and an Affiliated Faculty in the Ethnic Studies programme, as well as a member of the Advisory Committee of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice, at the University of San Diego, California

Tom Reifer is currently Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of San Diego and publishes widely on global peace and social justice issues. He has also been a long-time activist in the anti-nuclear movement as well as a rank and file trade union activist. His specialty is the study of large-scale, long-term social change and world-systems analysis. 

He is currently working on a series of book projects, including September 11th: Terrorism & the Globalization of Human Rights; Blown Away: US Militarism, Hurricane Katrina and the Challenges of the 21st Century, and Violence, Profits & Power.

Militarisation and Security; Nuclear policies; Gender; Ethnic studies; Globalisation; Social Movements; World Systems

English

Recent content by Tom Reifer

Capital's cartographer (18 Nov 2009)

Among the most significant losses in the maelstrom of 21st-century life has been the virtual disappearance of attempts to analyse the present in the longue durée. Giovanni Arrighi’s work—and that of his collaborators—represents a pioneering effort to do exactly this. We can only hope that future generations will have the wisdom to build on his thinking, most especially the spirit of solidarity and scholarly acuity which informed all his work.

Torture, Aggressive War & Presidential Power: Thoughts on the Current Constitutional Crisis (2 Oct 2009)

This article analyses the intersection of torture, aggressive war and Presidential power in the 21st century, with particular attention to the current US Constitutional crisis and related international humanitarian/human rights law.

Histories of the Present: Giovanni Arrighi, the Longue Duree of Geohistorical Capitalism, and the Current Crisis (8 Jul 2009)
The range and scope of Giovanni Arrighi’s intellectual work – and in particular his ability to provide analysis rooted in a long-term geohistorical context - is truly an astonishing achievement, writes Tom Reifer, while his generosity of spirit towards his intellectual interlocutors had few equals.

One of the more telling features of the present is the scarcity of analysis able to place today’s current socioeconomic crisis in geohistorical perspective.

Challenging Deportation Nation(s) (19 Mar 2009)

Despite the hopes engendered by the fall of the Berlin Wall at the end of the 20th century, as many have remarked, the 21st century has seen walls and borders erected throughout the world, from San Diego in the US to Western Europe to Israel/Palestine. A global apartheid replete with a constant war against the migrant and refugees is one of the quintessential hallmarks of our era and thus a critical terrain for social justice advocates and activists. Western Europe of course has long been a front line, as has the United States.

September 11th , Terrorism & the Globalization of Human Rights (4 Sep 2008)
The international human rights movement helped to bring General Pinochet to justice for his crimes whilst dictator of Chile. Yet there is no similar movement demanding accountability for the US officials involved in illegal torture practices since 11 September 2001.

Fires, explosions, mayhem, flames leaping through the air. The smell of death. The visions being recounted here are of September 11.

 
 
 
 

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