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Geoffrey Hughes
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Teacher, Ethnographer, Arabist; Author of Affection and Mercy (2021) and Social Media Tribes: Jordan's Bedouin and the Margins of the state (2026) ♥️🇯🇴♥️🇵🇸 (he/هو)

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lLU0JwkAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
You see God promised the land of [rolls dice and consults booklet] India to the uhhh... Queen of England for the [spins wheel] moral uplift of the Native.
November 29, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Extremely true!
November 28, 2025 at 5:40 AM
*ONE of the foremost... gah!
November 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The best thing about being a Derridean (good work if you can get it!) is that one is both hitching one's wagon the the foremost proponent of the "death of the author" but also no one is ever gonna shame them on the grounds of inconsistency because that's just what deconstruction would predict...
November 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Actually not sure I am ("context cues" is the tell) or why it would be ironic since I'm not a Derridean...
November 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Download it for free on JSTOR or wherever fine academic books can be pirated. I thankfully do not depend on book sales to feed myself:
Kinship, Islam, and the Politics of Marriage in Jordan: Affection and Mercy on JSTOR
In Kinship, Islam, and the Politics of Marriage inJordan, Geoffrey Hughes sets out to trace the "marriagecrisis" in Jordan and the Middle East. Rapid ...
www.jstor.org
November 27, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Also worth pointing out that it's actually pronounced like "cows" in the original greek (χάος). Real pearls before swine stuff. Couldn't waterboard this sort of confession out of me.
November 27, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Guy's brain is so far gone from hitting the AI that he's reinventing the idea of a radio from first principles.
November 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Reposted by Geoffrey Hughes
the cottage industry of misinfo studies post-2016 was very worried about under-resourced information environments, where lack of literacy and access to high quality news drove conspiracism. meanwhile, the most well-resourced people on the planet were getting pilled on channer content
November 26, 2025 at 2:52 PM
November 26, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Thanks!
November 26, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Reposted by Geoffrey Hughes
November 25, 2025 at 8:50 PM