>A point of information--I haven't come across many of the responses
>mentioned here--Jameson, Gilroy, Eagleton, etc. Where can they be
>found?
Hi Sean. Here you go:
Saskia Sassen (professor of sociology at the University of Chicago): http://www.theglobalsite.ac.uk/times/109sassen.htm
Immanuel Wallerstein (sociologist, directs the Fernand Braudel Center at Binghamton University and is affiliated with the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris; author of Modern World-System): http://fbc.binghamton.edu/72en.htm http://fbc.binghamton.edu/73en.htm http://fbc.binghamton.edu/74en.htm http://fbc.binghamton.edu/75en.htm
Arvind Rajagopal (Indian-American sociologist and communications scholar; author of Mapping Hegemony: Television News Coverage of Industrial Conflict, and Politics After Television: Religious Nationalism and the Reshaping of the Indian Public): http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?CatID=95&DocID=653
Edward Said: http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,552764,00.html http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20011022&s=said
Paul Gilroy: http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?CatID=95&DocID=660&DebateID=152
Jody Williams (1997 Nobel Peace Prize): http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0918-08.htm
Harold Pinter (British playwright; author of The Birthday Party, The Caretaker, and The Homecoming): http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/dt?ac=006337808646863&rtmo=wKfolKMb&atmo=rrrrrrrq&pg=/01/9/20/dt01.html
Paul Virilio (French postmodern theorist): http://slash.autonomedia.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/16/1227234
Terry Eagleton: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v23/n19/mult2319.htm#eagleton
Fredric Jameson: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v23/n19/mult2319.htm#jameson
Ariel Dorfman (Chilean writer and dramatist, author of Death and the Maiden, How to Read Donald Duck, and The Empire's Old Clothes: What the Lone Ranger, Babar, and Other Innocent Heroes Do to Our Minds): http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-092101dorfman.story
Amit Chaudhuri (Indian novelist; author of Freedom Song: Three Novels): http://www.lrb.co.uk/v23/n19/mult2319.htm#chaudhuri
Charles Simic (Yugoslavian-born American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet): http://www.lrb.co.uk/v23/n19/mult2319.htm#simic
Eduardo Galeano (Latin American novelist and historian, born in Uruguay; author of the Memory of Fire trilogy: Genesis, Faces and Masks, and Century of the Wind): http://www.zmag.org/galeanocalam.htm http://www.zmag.org/galeanosymbols.htm
Rigoberta Menchú Tum (Guatemalan activist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, author of I, Rigoberta Menchú): http://globalresearch.ca/articles/MEN109A.html
Dario Fo (Italian playwright, winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature; author of Accidental Death of an Anarchist): http://marcod.tripod.com/911/Fo.html
Arundhati Roy (Indian novelist; author of 1997 Booker Prize-winning The God of Small Things): http://www.guardian.co.uk/saturday_review/story/0,3605,559756,00.html http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20011029&fname=arundhati%20(F)&sid=1
Mike Davis (social critic, urban theorist; author of City of Quartz): http://www.left-turn.org/feature/resist/davis1.html http://www.swp.org.uk/SR/256/SR2.HTM
Nawal el Saadawi (Egyptian novelist, feminist, physician, activist; author of Memoirs from the Women's Prison, Woman at Point Zero, God Dies by the Nile, She Has No Place in Paradise, and Love in the Kingdom of Oil) - video: http://mediaed.sitepassport.net/911/btf/Saadawi/index_html
Toni Negri (Italian philosopher and political activist; author of Empire): http://slash.autonomedia.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/24/1043209&mode=nocomment&threshold=
Umberto Eco (Italian semiotician, novelist; author of The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum): http://www.liberalartsmafia.com/comments/eco3.html http://www.liberalartsmafia.com/comments/eco4.html
Barbara Kingsolver (U.S. novelist; author of The Bean Trees, The Poisonwood Bible): http://www.commondreams.org/views01/1014-01.htm
Gore Vidal (novelist, essayist): http://www.blythe.org/nytransfer-subs/Activist_Politics/Gore_Vidal:_'War_On_Terror'_
Tariq Ali (British novelist, historian, filmmaker): http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=99442
Angela Davis (civil rights leader, cultural theorist): http://www.metroactive.com/cruz/nuz-0143.html
Naguib Mahfouz (Egyptian novelist, 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature; author of Midaq Alley, Children of Gebelawi, and the “Cairo Trilogy”: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, and Sugar Street): http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2001/557/op6.htm