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Christian Parenti

Christian Parenti

American investigative journalist, academic, and author

Christian Parenti is an American investigative journalist, academic, and author.

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Early life and education

Parenti is the son of Michael Parenti and Susan Parenti. He attended Buxton School in Williamstown, Massachusetts, The New School for Social Research, and the London School of Economics, where he earned a PhD in Sociology and Geography.[1]

Career

His books include Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis (2000), a survey of the rise of the prison-industrial complex from the Nixon through the Reagan Era and into the present, and The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America From Slavery to the War on Terror (2003), a study of surveillance and control in modern society. The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq (2004), is an account of the US occupation of Iraq. In Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence (2011), Parenti links the implications of climate change with social and political unrest in mid-latitude regions of the world.[2] Parenti has reported from Afghanistan, Iraq, Venezuela, Bolivia, the Ivory Coast and China, among other locations.[citation needed]

Parenti's reporting in Afghanistan was the subject of an award-winning HBO documentary, Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi. Directed and edited by Ian Olds, the film follows the working relationship between Parenti and his Afghan colleague Ajmal Naqshbandi, and after Naqshbandi's capture and murder by the Taliban, Parenti's investigation of that crime.[3][non-primary source needed]

Academics

He was[when?] a visiting fellow at CUNY's Center for Place, Culture and Politics and a Soros Senior Justice Fellow.[citation needed] Parenti has[when?] taught at the New College of California and at St. Mary's College in Moraga, California.[citation needed] Parenti has also served as a professor of sustainable development at the SIT Graduate Institute.[4] As of 2017, he is Associate Professor of Economics at John Jay College.[5]

Personal life

He divides his time between Brattleboro, Vermont, and New York City.[citation needed]

Books

  • Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis (1999) ISBN 1-85984-303-4
  • The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America From Slavery to the War on Terror (2003) ISBN 0-465-05485-4
  • The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq (2004) ISBN 1-56584-948-5
  • Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence (2011) ISBN 9781568587295
  • Radical Hamilton: Economic Lessons from a Misunderstood Founder (2020) ISBN 978-1786633927

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Christian Parenti". John Jay College of Criminal Justice. 2018-01-31. Retrieved 2019-12-12.
  2. [2]
    Hamm, Theodore (11 July 2011). "Inside the Tropic of Chaos: CHRISTIAN PARENTI with Theodore Hamm". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 2012-07-08.
  3. [3]
    Trailer Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi
  4. [4]
    "A Worthy Goal, but a Suspect Method". www.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2019-12-12.
  5. [5]
    "John Jay College - Department of Economics".
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