Caters for all branches of political philosophy and theory, including: the history of political thought, normative political theory and comparative political theory. Those working in related disciplines such as applied ethics and legal theory are also welcome.
Gary Hall deposited Cities of InfraRed in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 6 days, 12 hours agoCities of InfraRed is an abstract for my proposed contribution to a book that is being put together by Cornelia Sollfrank, Shuhsa Niederberger and Felix Stalder. The book has the working title of Aesthetics of the Commons, and arises out of the Creating Commons research project at the Zurich University of the Arts.
A version of Cities of…[Read more]
Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Is the ‘Hate’ in Hate Speech the ‘Hate’ in Hate Crime? Waldron and Dworkin on Political Legitimacy,” Jurisprudence (2019) in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 6 days, 12 hours agoAmong the most persuasive arguments against hate speech bans was made by Ronald Dworkin, who warned of the threat to political legitimacy posed by laws that deny those subject to them adequate opportunity for dissent. In his influential defence of hate speech bans, Jeremy Waldron addresses these objections. Dworkin’s concern with political l…[Read more]
Dora Apel deposited Just Joking? Chimps, Obama and Racial Stereotype in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 3 weeks agoPublic racist stereotypes after the election of Barack Obama
Dora Apel deposited Torture Culture: Lynching Photographs and the Images of Abu Ghraib in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 3 weeks agoOn the photographs of torture at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and the visual politics of power
Dora Apel deposited Cultural Battlegrounds: Weimar Photographic Narratives of War in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 3 weeks agoOn pacifist and patriotic visual imagery and the tenth anniversary of the First World War in Weimar German
Dora Apel deposited Technologies of War, Media, and Dissent in the Post 9/11 Work of Krzysztof Wodiczko in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 3 weeks agoOn the work of Krzysztof Wodiczko
Dora Apel deposited On Looking: Lynching Photographs and Legacies of Lynching after 9/11 in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 3 weeks agoOn looking at lynching photographs
Dora Apel deposited Diego Rivera and the Left: The Destruction and Recreation of the Rockefeller Center Mural in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 3 weeks agoThe politics of Rivera’s RCA mural in New York City.
Dora Apel deposited The Routledge Companion to Urban Imaginaries in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 3 weeks agoOne of the most pressing challenges in the world today is access to clean water. This chapter explores the crises of contaminated water in Flint, water shutoffs in Detroit, and larger questions about the control of water by private corporations and the changing nature of urbanization. As neoliberal policies seek to privatize infrastructure and…[Read more]
Dora Apel deposited Mediapolis Live: Dora Apel on in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 3 weeks, 2 days agoTwo-part interview about the book Beautiful Terrible Ruins
Dora Apel deposited The Ruins of Capitalism in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 3 weeks, 2 days agoBy depicting urban decay and ecological crisis, ruin imagery shows the people and places that capitalism left behind.
Omer Aijazi deposited ‘We Were Controlled, We Were Not Allowed to Express Our Sexuality, Our Intimacy Was Suppressed’: Sexual Violence Experienced by Boys in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 3 weeks, 3 days agoWhy are academic and policy discourses on child soldiers relatively silent on sexual violence against boys in armed groups? Drawing from the experiences of boys forcibly conscripted into the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), this Chapter seeks to transcend the gendered language of sexual slavery, concubines, forced pregnancy and rape. Most sexual a…[Read more]
Steven Aoun deposited Better Angels of Our Nature: Steven Pinker’s Demon Moves in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks agoIs it worst to be killed by a crazed mob wielding machetes or to die via conveyor belt and filing system? The Better Angels of Our Nature keeps falling victim to the halo effect, creating an aura around reason itself. The question, then, is whether the book should be viewed as a jewel in reason’s crown or as among its costume jewellery.
Rashmi Gajare deposited Understanding ‘Othering’ mechanisms: Perils of ‘assimilation’ policies for migrant populations in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 2 months agoIn an ideal society, all inhabitants would be treated equally, but in reality there are divisions with groups of varying dominance, whether clear or hidden. Usually the dominant groups, powerful either by political, cultural or social hegemony create the narrative of ‘otherness’ and pass laws, some of which could be discriminatory. This is esp…[Read more]
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Steven Aoun deposited What Is ‘Critical’ About Critical Theory? in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 3 months, 1 week agoThe idea of a critical theory has colonized the social consciousness of academia, and become an integral part of the pursuit of higher knowledge. Competing ideas have thereby become standard bearers in that critical theory acts as a measure of true understanding . The only problem, however, is that many of the distinct theories similarly answering…[Read more]
Omer Aijazi deposited Kashmir as Movement and Multitude in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks agoThe Line of Control arbitrarily bifurcates Neelum valley, Kashmir into Pakistan and India. While the border attempts to constrain and categorize, the daily movements and flows of human and more-than-human bodies via “unofficial” routes and routines generate an understanding of Kashmir that is not dependent on geopolitics. Neelum as sculpted and…[Read more]
Valeria Graziano deposited Towards a theory of prefigurative practices in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks agoChapter in Post-Dance, Edited by Danjel Andersson, Mette Edvarsdsen and Mårten Spångberg. MDT, 2017.
ISBN 978-91-983891-0-4. Based on materials from the workshop ‘Nor Culture Nor Art’, with Mårten Spångberg and Vanessa Ohlraum, at Learning Plays. A School of School, Impulse Theatre Festival in collaboration with Ringlokschuppen Ruhr. Mülheim…[Read more]-
Gary Hall deposited Übercapitalism and What Can Be Done About It in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 4 months agoWe live in an increasingly übercapitalist society. It’s übercapitalist in that a specific version of neoliberalism, characterised by low pay, zero-hours and fixed-term contracts, is growing ever more aggressive; and that the disruptive technology firm Uber offers one of the most high-profile examples of this intensified form of deregulated cap…[Read more]
Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Democracy and the Vernacular Imagination in Vico’s Plebian Philology in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 4 months, 1 week agoThis essay examines Giambattista Vico’s philology as a contribution to democratic legitimacy. I outline three steps in Vico’s account of the historical and political development of philological knowledge: first, his merger of philosophy and philology, and the effects of that merger on the relative claims of reason and authority; second, his use…[Read more]
Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “The Jurisprudence of 9/11 and its Aftermath” (Fall 2018 Syllabus) in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 4 months, 2 weeks agoModule Summary: Using the aftermath of 9/11 and the US invasion of Iraq as a case study, this module asks why states engage in torture, giving particular consideration to why liberal states euphemise, conceal, and downplay this practice. We will examine the ramifications of 9/11 across multiple legal domains, domestically within the US and…[Read more]
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