#stephen howe

tagged by @gloombby to share nine books i want to read this year

i felt the end before it came: memoirs of a queer ex-jehovah's witness by daniel allen cox / owls & other fantasies: poems & essays by mary oliver / black disability politics by sami schalk / optimism over despair: on capitalism, empire & social change by noam chomsky / ireland & the empire by stephen howe / devotions: selected poems by mary oliver / soledad brother: the prison letters of george jackson by george jackson / beloved by toni morrison / kitchen confidential: adventures in the culinary underbelly by anthony bourdain

How many ways can you say yes or no?

Stephen Howe, associate professor in the department of English at @FukuokaUniversity, explores this question.

From Empire (A Very Short Introduction) by Stephen Howe:

Outside the academic world, popular historical consciousness and the teaching of history in schools was, and still is, almost entirely national - and indeed nationalist- in focus. Among the very first actions of most postcolonial states, on it even before achieving their independence, was to revive or create ‘national histories’ like the European ones. Today, it is increasingly widely recognised that historical understanding, if it is kept within these those narrow national boundaries, will not equip the citizens of the 21st century anywhere on earth to understand their world. They may, or may not, be citizens of a new world world empire - perhaps an economic, cultural, of media empire, if not a political one. They may even be barbarians, outcasts, or refugees knocking vainly at the gates of such an empire.

Listen Here

On a very very hot day in the Cashmere Radio studios Enchanted Rhythms is joined by selector and collector Stephen Howe, who hosts the Strange Friends and Friendly Strangers show on KMAH radio. You can find Stephen on Soundcloud.