The Politics of the Opioid Crisis on KPFA’s Against the Grain (audio)
I was pleased to have an opportunity to talk through some of the themes in a chapter titled “Our Opium Wars Pain, race, and the … Read more
race and racism
Digital/Debt/Empire interventions series
In the lead up to the Digital/Debt/Empire gathering in April 2019 Public Seminar, the online platform of the New School for Social Research, hosted a … Read more
The Colonial Secrets of Canada’s Most Racist City
This essay, published in ROAR Magazine, explores the deep colonial roots of anti-Indigenous racist violence in the city of Thunder Bay. Original: https://roarmag.org/essays/colonial-secrets-canadas-racist-city/
“Our Opium Wars: The Ghosts of Empire in the Prescription Opioid Nightmare” in Third Text (audio)
The journal Third Text has published a short essay titled “Our Opium Wars The Ghosts of Empire in the Prescription Opioid Nightmare” (v.32, i.5-6, it … Read more
Our Opium Wars: Our Opium Wars The Ghosts of Empire in the Prescription Opioid Nightmare
Citation Haiven, Max. 2019. “Our Opium Wars: The Ghosts of Empire in the Prescription Opioid Nightmare.” Third Text 32 (5-6): 662-669. https://doi.org/10.1080/09528822.2018.1559169 Abstract The prescription … Read more
Colonial Debts, Extractive Nostalgias, Imperial Insolvencies intervention series
In September 2018 the UK-based scholarly online platform Discover Society published a short selection of texts edited by Clea Bourne, Paul Gilbert, Max Haiven and … Read more
Beyond the Violence of Colonial Civility: The Art of Raven Davis
Citation Haiven, Max. 2017. “Beyond the Violence of Colonial Civility: The Art of Raven Davis.” In The Art of Civil Action, edited by Pascal Gielen … Read more