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Today’s Guest is Professor Roddey Reid
___From Professor Reid:
Since the kick-off of the 2016 presidential campaign, a climate of fear and intimidation has dominated national life in the United States to a degree rarely seen before, poisoning our politics and reaching into our very relationships with friends, co-workers, and neighbors.
Confronting Political Intimidation and Public Bullying is about how this came to be, how we can see ourselves through it, but also why it is not likely to go away anytime soon.
At the core of this political history is a larger US public culture of intimidation and bullying in the workplace, media, and political arena that has been building for thirty-five years. The current harsh environment is a direct challenge to citizens and residents, especially those seeking to engage in progressive activism and party politics now and in the years to come.
The book’s hope is to provide a kind of clarity that helps us get a handle on events and diminish the terror of the current moment by providing some shared protective mental armor. This book offers a unique guide to the strategies and dynamics of contemporary political intimidation and public bullying: the dangers they present, the snares and traps that envelope their targets, and the lessons to be learned.
In the end, it’s about shedding light on the dark side of contemporary national life in order to see beyond it.
For this new edition I have thoroughly revised and updated the original text and added 70% more material in the way of new research and many current examples including an entirely new chapter (Chapter Seven) on civilian and state-sponsored physical and armed violence. The first five chapters lay the groundwork for the lessons offered in Chapters Six and Seven and the Conclusion.
As an appendix I have added, A Political Glossary for the Trump Era and Beyond, that highlights the dramatic shifts in U.S. politics and the emergence of far-right groups and organizations in our national life.
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About Professor Reid
Roddey Reid
Professor Emeritus
French Studies and Cultural Studies
Modern cultures and societies of France, the U.S., and Japan; print culture and visual media; interdisciplinary studies of science and medicine; globalization and public health.
Roddey Reid is an interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersection of French studies, science studies, communication, history, and cultural studies. He has studied and conducted research in the U.S., France, Italy, Belgium, and Japan. His teaching and scholarship at UCSD focused on the history of modern cultures and societies from the perspective of the changing ways in which citizenship and selfhood are shaped by particular cultural forms (literature, media, advertising, fashion), governmental policies, medical and scientific knowledge, and social movements. A former Japan Foundation Abe Fellow (awarded by the Social Science Research Council), his most recent book is titled, Confronting Political Intimidation and Public Bullying: A Citizen’s Handbook for the Trump Era and Beyond (2017). He is also is author of Families in Jeopardy: Regulating the Social Body in France, 1750-1910; (Stanford University Press, 1993), co-editor (with Sharon Traweek) of Doing Science + Culture: How Cultural and Interdisciplinary Studies Are Changing the Way We Look at Science and Medicine (Routledge, 2000), and author of Globalizing Tobacco Control: Anti-Smoking Campaigns in California, France, and Japan (Indiana University Press, 2005). His most recent research has been on cultures of intimidation and bullying in the U.S., Europe, and Asia.
He served as Department Vice-Chair (2009-14) during which time he chaired the Literature Building Committee and oversaw the implementation of remediation measures that addressed environmental health issues affecting the Literature Building. He also chaired the Academic Senate Committee on Planning & Budget (2012-13) that authored a ground-breaking overview of UCSD’s budget and planning processes, “UCSD and Its Budget Challenges”. He co-founded and led with Shankar Subramaniam (Chair, Bioengineering, 2008-13) the Council of Chairs (2010-14), an independent organization of all 50 academic department chairs, section heads, and vice-chairs in General Campus, Health Sciences, and Marine Sciences that has enriched campus governance. He served as a member of the UCSD Future Group (2011-12) of faculty & administrators that drew up recommendations for incoming Chancellor Khosla and served as a member of Chancellor Khosla’s Strategic Planning Committee (2012-14).
In 2014-15 he chaired the Senate Coursera Workgroup that organized a UCSD campuswide workshop on Intellectual Property, Copyright, and Fair Use in the age of MOOCS and the Internet in May 2014 UCSD Campus Workshop; sponsored by the Academic Senate and the Office of the Chancellor, it was led by IP legal expert Kenneth Crews of Gipson Hoffman & Pancione of Los Angeles and featured Angus McDonald, Counsel, Office of the President and Amy Blum, Counsel, UCLA. The Senate Coursera Workgroup successfully pushed for strengthening IP protections for UCSD and its faculty in current and future contracts for online and hybrid courses developed with the UC Innovative Learning Technologies Initiative (ILTI) and with 3rd-party MOOC providers.