Tom Reifer
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 Associate 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 book "Lawyers, Guns & Money: Wall Street & the American Century"
Areas of expertise:
Militarisation and Security; Nuclear policies; Gender; Ethnic studies; Globalisation; Social Movements; World SystemsContact
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Recent content by Tom Reifer
The Syrian Civil War, Chemical Weapons, & the Rush to Regional and Global Disaster
August 2013
The US, Saudis and Qatar who seek to take sides in fuelling sectarianism and violence in the Middle East, should remember how a similar discourse of preventative war and promotion of sectarian forces in Europe led to World War I.
Race, space and punishment in urban sociology
July 2013
Structural circumstances of deprivation and criminalization facing African-Americans and the racialized perceptions of criminality appear to be some of the salient features that recently led to a young black teenager being killed by neighborhood watch patrolman George Zimmerman.
Zero Dark Thirty & the Question of Torture
January 2013
It is high time Americans recognize that: “If torture is not wrong, nothing is wrong.”
Secrets, Lies, & Propaganda
January 2013
After the US embrace of torture after 9/11 it was only a matter of time before Hollywood decided to make a tribute to America’s liberal culture of torture for the big screen; Zero Dark Thirty
Beyond the Triangle of Emancipation
August 2012
In 2009, the song Changes, by Tupac Amaru Shakur, was put on the Pope’s playlist. What is Tupac’s significance, in light of his making the Pope’s playlist and the realities facing African-Americans today in the context of the USA's overpacked prison system, the largest in world history?
Occupy Wall Street: Origins & Prospects
October 2011
The ancient discussion about the purposes of wealth and the conflict between oligarchy – rule of the rich – and democracy – the rule of the demos/the people comes to the fore once again with the Occupy protests.
9/11: Ten years later, who have we become?
September 2011
Ten years and two wars later, Americans face the monetary and psychological costs of both militarism and Wall Street materialism, effectively bankrupting the country; not to mention the casualties of war at home, and in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Ten years later, who have we become?
September 2011
A recommitment to King’s inspired vision might just be the best thing that could ever come out of the horrendous death and destruction of 9/11: a commitment to live, a commitment to love, and a commitment to peace and social justice.
Global Inequalities, Alternative Regionalism and the Future of Socialism
August 2011
This paper examines global inequalities and the future of capitalism and socialism through an investigation of the oligarchic wealth on which the current global order is based and also looks at growing challenges to these social foundations of the present global system.
The Crime Decline & California’s Priorities in the 21st Century
June 2011
That increasing numbers of California's youth end up in prison may yield some short term perceptions of declining crime rates, but what about the long-term education deficit?
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