Academic Leader at TEC of MONTERREY: Dr. Zahar

Yesterday we had the pleasure to hear a former colleague at McGill University, Dr. Marie-Joelle Zahar, speak at the TEC of Monterrey (Campus Queretaro). She is now a professor at the University of Montreal. Here is a link to the Academic Leaders' project she was involved with at my university (in Spanish):

http://lideresacademicos.net/node/195

Marie-Joelle Zahar is an expert on militias and war economies. Zahar tries to analyze how militias might exit from the armed struggle, or the reasons why they continue to take up arms after official "peace deals" are signed. As a specialist on fascism and neo-fascism, what we have in common is a focus on political manifestations of violence.

Tamir Bar-On

Memorial for Two TEC students today...

It is indeed a sad day. Today the TECNOLOGICO DE MONTERREY, the main campus in Monterrey, has a ceremony for two graduate students tragically killed by stray bullets on March 19, 2010. The two students are Javier Arredondo and Jorge Mercado. A Facebook site on their behalf has already generated close to 4,000 followers:

http://www.facebook.com/posted.php?id=102480629787015&share_id=106326476063157&comments=1#!/group.php?gid=102480629787015

There are serious questions asked of the Mexican authorities on the site, including why they could not be identified as TEC students.

Today my heart is filled with sadness for the students that will no longer smell the arid, hot sun of Mexico, their families, friends, and colleagues that must endure terrible pain. YOU DO NOT WALK ALONE. This Political Science professor from TECNOLOGICO DE MONTERREY, CAMPUS QUERETARO, is with you. And so are millions around Mexico. Javier and Jorge, may your souls rest in peace.

Tamir Bar-On

My Third Academic Article!

In 2003-4, a heated debate about fascism took place in a German journal, Erwagen, Wissen, Ethik. In the debate, Roger Griffin, the esteemed historian of fascism, was invited to write a piece about contemporary fascism's "facelessness." Academics, including myself, were asked to respond to Griffin's article. Intellectuals from Germany, England, Canada, the United States, and numerous other countries responded. What was unique about the debate was the collaboration between German and Anglophone academics on Fascism.

My piece was entitled, “A Critical Response to Roger Griffin’s ‘Fascism’s new faces and new facelessness in the post-fascist epoch,’” Erwagen, Wissen, Ethik (Deliberation, Knowledge, Ethics) 15 (3) (April 2004), pp. 307-309.

The aforementioned article I wrote reappeared in the following book:

“A Critical Response to Roger Griffin’s ‘Fascism’s new faces" in Roger Griffin, Werner Loh, and Andreas Umland, (eds.), Fascism Past and Present, West and East (Ibidem-Verlag, 2006), pp. 85-92.

Here below is a link to the article and all other articles in the debate! A full 77 pages of text!

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/30279013/Dr-Tamir-Bar-On-“A-Critical-Response-to-Roger-Griffin’s-‘Fascism’s-new-faces-and-new-facelessness-in-the-post-fascist-epoch”

Tamir Bar-On

Full Text of My Second Academic Article on the Nouvelle Droite!

Here is the full text of my second academic article:

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/29067549/The-Ambiguities-of-the-Nouvelle-Droite-1968-1999

Please let me know your thoughts on this piece, which got me working on the French nouvelle droite and European New Right for many years!

Tamir Bar-On

My Second Academic Article: Figuring Out the Nouvelle Droite!

My second academic article was a kind of summary of my Ph.D. dissertation, which I completed at McGill University. It is about how far right-wing intellectuals coped with the post-World War Two period and the official defeat of Fascism.

The title of my second, peer-reviewed academic article is the following:

"The Ambiguities of the Nouvelle Droite, 1968-1999," The European Legacy 6 (3) (2001), pp. 333-351.

The article became cited as one of the standard references on the nouvelle droite, or broader European New Right (i.e., by other academics and in Wikipedia).

Here is the Wikipedia link to the Nouvelle Droite, which cites my name and ideas:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouvelle_Droite

And the link to my article:


http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a713665584&db=all

Tamir Bar-On

My First Academic Article: Football, Politics, and Culture

In the next few days, I will post my academic work online...It was back in 1997 that I published my first peer-reviewed academic article on the relationship between football (soccer), politics, and culture in Latin America. Check out the abstract and article below and let me know what you think!

http://www.socresonline.org.uk/cgi-bin/abstract.pl?2/4/2.html


http://www.socresonline.org.uk/2/4/2.html

Tamir Bar-On

Back from My Hiatus: At The TEC OF MONTERREY!

Dear Friends and Colleagues,




I was off managing my move to Queretaro and my new university, the TECNOLOGICO DE MONTERREY (CAMPUS QUERETARO) in Mexico. I teach in the Department of Humanities and International Relations. Here is a link to my university, one of the most highly rated in the Americas:

http://www.itesm.edu/wps/portal?WCM_GLOBAL_CONTEXT=/migration/QRO2/Quer_taro/


(Please note that there is an English link too...And by the way, I am learning Spanish, but teaching in English. I teach International Relations Theories I and II, European Politics, and Geopolitics)...

Oh yes, and a link to the gorgeous colonial city of Queretaro:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quer%C3%A9taro,_Quer%C3%A9taro

In the next little while, I will post excerpts of my academic work throughout my career.

Peace and abrazos (hugs),

Tamir Bar-On