https://www.naterosenblatt.com/whenimaway daily 0.75 2020-12-15 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57b471e2bebafb7d8c5d75eb/t/5fd80d83bf84161920f5041f/1607992162576/ the "field" - A Tannery in Fes, Morocco https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57b471e2bebafb7d8c5d75eb/5fd802c2c1688b1bab8a46c5/5fd802dcc1688b1bab8a4a4f/1607992162576/ the "field" - A Tannery in Fes, Morocco https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57b471e2bebafb7d8c5d75eb/5fd802c2c1688b1bab8a46c5/5fd803cbeaa8e77ae8de0e5a/1607994421931/IMG_7802.jpg the "field" - Ibn Khaldun's Study Spot, Tunis, Tunisia https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57b471e2bebafb7d8c5d75eb/5fd802c2c1688b1bab8a46c5/5fd8079bbf84161920f40585/1607994445660/SuliDemos_2011.jpg the "field" - 2011 Protests in Sulaimani, Iraq https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57b471e2bebafb7d8c5d75eb/5fd802c2c1688b1bab8a46c5/5fd8079dc1688b1bab8b0849/1607994489635/Halabjagraves_2009.jpg the "field" - Graveyard of Victims, Halabja, Iraq https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57b471e2bebafb7d8c5d75eb/5fd802c2c1688b1bab8a46c5/5fd80837bf84161920f41eda/1607994519931/konya.jpg the "field" - Burial place of Rumi in Konya, Turkey https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57b471e2bebafb7d8c5d75eb/5fd802c2c1688b1bab8a46c5/5fd8079c08b8232a2dd7c072/1607994612443/natenajaf.jpg the "field" - Imam Ali's Shrine in Najaf, Iraq https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57b471e2bebafb7d8c5d75eb/5fd802c2c1688b1bab8a46c5/5fd808b289c44d5cce344db4/1607994635582/aleppocitadel.jpg the "field" - The Citadel in Aleppo, Syria https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57b471e2bebafb7d8c5d75eb/5fd802c2c1688b1bab8a46c5/5fd8079fc1688b1bab8b0854/1607994706864/ImamHusaynShrine_2009.jpg the "field" - Shrine to Imam Hussein ibn Ali in Damascus, Syria https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57b471e2bebafb7d8c5d75eb/5fd802c2c1688b1bab8a46c5/5fd807a1a47d12139840b59f/1607994728258/chris+iraq+21.jpg the "field" - Monastery near Mosul, Iraq https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57b471e2bebafb7d8c5d75eb/5fd802c2c1688b1bab8a46c5/5fd8092f50dc481b7891aef9/1607994740772/millieandwellies.jpg the "field" - Waiting for a walk in Oxford, UK https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57b471e2bebafb7d8c5d75eb/5fd802c2c1688b1bab8a46c5/5fd80bae50dc481b7891fd28/1607994755088/pizza.jpg the "field" - Slices of heaven in New Haven, CT https://www.naterosenblatt.com/home daily 1.0 2020-12-15 https://www.naterosenblatt.com/about daily 0.75 2020-12-15 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57b471e2bebafb7d8c5d75eb/t/5a1d612be2c483f5ad54f9fe/1511874992791/turkey+large+126.jpg about me Three days after Nazi Germany invaded Poland and started World War II, Einsatzgruppe and SS divisions took control of Sosnowiec. It was September 4, 1939. They arrested my great-grandfather and tortured him. They also arrested my grandfather, who had to dig graves for murdered Jews at gunpoint. My grandfather survived the war - and I am here - because he escaped imprisonment in Sosnowiec and fled east. The war that came to Sosnowiec was unfathomable and yet somehow also predictable. It was, above all else, intimate. Soccer fields became burial grounds; neighbors informants; friends enemies. I study the violent dimension of “contentious politics,” a term coined by the late Charles Tilly to include social movements, protests, civil wars, revolutions, and insurgencies. Tilly’s research on contentious politics, and work that has emerged since, urges us to think beyond the individual and account for the social dynamics involved in extraordinary moments of collective action. People do not take actions on their own. They consider what their friends are doing, what their community sanctions, or what their ‘in-group’ demands of them. Choices that seem evil in retrospect at the time feel normal, rational, and are often encouraged. “The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.” -Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, 1963 https://www.naterosenblatt.com/pagecv daily 0.75 2020-12-15 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57b471e2bebafb7d8c5d75eb/5fd81264cdf20e74c7e244af/5fd8127fe1330e0fe6f89e54/1607996041183/NateLRosenblatt_CV_Dec2020_1.jpg cv https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57b471e2bebafb7d8c5d75eb/5fd81264cdf20e74c7e244af/5fd81265a47d1213984267ea/1607996039884/NateLRosenblatt_CV_Dec2020_2.jpg cv https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57b471e2bebafb7d8c5d75eb/5fd81264cdf20e74c7e244af/5fd8126513eb91110ce090f2/1607996012838/NateLRosenblatt_CV_Dec2020_3.jpg cv