Телеграм канал «Политическая теория и философия (Political theory and philosophy)»

Kelly Oliver - Carceral Humanitarianism: Logics of Refugee Detention
 
Coopted by military operations, humanitarianism has never been neutral. Rather than welcoming refugees, host countries assess the relative risks of taking them in versus turning them away, using a risk-benefit analysis that often reduces refugees to collateral damage in proxy wars fought in the war on terrorism. Carceral Humanitarianism testifies that humanitarian aid and human rights discourse are always political and partisan.

Claudio Lomnitz - Slavery Pure and Simple

A recent bombshell report documents brutal cases of forced labor in Mexico. Why can’t the government take it seriously?

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/slavery-pure-and-simple/

Gary Hall - The Uberfication of the University
 
Even after the 2008 financial crisis, neoliberalism has been able to advance its program of privatization and deregulation. The Uberfication of the University analyzes the emergence of the sharing economy an economy that has little to do with sharing access to good and services and everything to do with selling this access and the companies behind it: LinkedIn, Uber, and Airbnb. In this society, we all are encouraged to become microentrepreneurs of the self, acting as if we are our own precarious freelance enterprises at a time when we are being steadily deprived of employment rights, public services, and welfare support. The book considers the contemporary university, itself subject to such entrepreneurial practices, as one polemical site for the affirmative disruption of this model.

Жэнь Сюэфэй - Урбанизация по-китайски
 
В современном Китае насчитывается более 125 городов с населением свыше миллиона человек. Беспрецедентный их рост представляет собой важнейшее явление для исследований глобализации и трансформации Китая. В этой книге на основе изучения пяти ключевых тем - управления, миграции, ландшафта, неравенства и культурной экономики - рассматривается прошлое, настоящее и будущее китайской урбанизации. 

Leah Litman - Who Is Supreme, the People or the Court?

Nikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan’s new book challenges the supremacy of judicial review over democracy itself.

Bowie and Renan suggest that the Left did not realize that the same right-wing legal movement that now dominates the Supreme Court was willing to accept a loss on whether the court would have the power to invalidate a federal abortion restriction in order to solidify their position against an even bigger prize the Voting Rights Act, the 1965 law that at least attempted to make the country a multiracial democracy. Earlier this term, the right-wing legal movement claimed that “prize” when the Supreme Court completed its demolition of the Voting Rights Act nullifying the last major provision that had remained in the law after the court previously dismantled the other key provision more than a decade ago.

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/supremacy-court-replaced-goverment-bowie-renan-judicial-review/