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Migration

New York’s Existential Crisis over Migration

How can the process that created the city also be responsible for destroying it?

April 2, 2024 • by Achilles Kallergis

More than anywhere else, in New York, the migrant crisis—essentially a migration governance crisis—is an existential one: it interrogates not only the capacity of the city to welcome newcomers but also the city’s broader prospects. ...

Migration

It’s Not a Migrant Crisis—It’s a Political Crisis

The creation of a global category of the unfree

April 1, 2024 • by Nina Glick Schiller

Amidst acknowledging the immediate suffering of migrants and asylum seekers, this critique challenges the narrative surrounding the so-called "migrant crisis." It argues that diverting attention from systemic issues perpetuates dehumanization and supports policies hindering migrants' rights. Emphasizing the need for equitable immigration policies, it advocates for building diverse, inclusive societies....

It’s Not a Migrant Crisis—It’s a Political Crisis

Habitats

Testing the Waters in Gotham

A look at how residents throughout the city’s history have chosen what to drink

March 20, 2024 • by Liviu Chelcea

The three forms of water distribution form a fluid archive of community formation, civic pride, and the many different possible ways New Yorkers can choose the water they drink....

Climate & Ecology

How Can Cities Drive Net-Zero Carbon Goals and Create Vibrant Urban Communities?

Nature-based solutions offer a way forward

March 13, 2024 • by Karen C. Seto

Cities must achieve four goals: minimize greenhouse gas emissions, foster low and net-zero carbon behaviors, minimize changes in land cover that increase local temperatures and exacerbate the urban heat island effect, and create livable and vibrant communities. ...

How Can Cities Drive Net-Zero Carbon Goals and Create Vibrant Urban Communities?

Climate & Ecology

Animal Sovereignties and the Wolves of Isle Royale

An excerpt from Interspecies Politics

March 12, 2024 • by Rafi Youatt

The biggest challenge posed by the question of wild animal sovereignties is to the operation of human sovereignty, which itself is figured through animality and in some cases through animals....

Animal Sovereignties and the Wolves of Isle Royale

Climate & Ecology

Taking Water for Granted

Modern infrastructure has created the expectation of a continuous, drinkable flow of water

March 5, 2024 • by Oana Filip and Liviu Chelcea

Water use has always been an indicator of social relations. In western societies, most treat drinking water as a simultaneously infinite and hyper-individualized resource. But plastic pollution and the climate emergency are forcing us to question our consumption habits....

Literature

The Little Prince Haunts New York

Following Antoine de Saint-Exupéry from the Ritz to the East River

March 5, 2024 • by Albert Nguyen

When I moved to New York, I set out to discover how my new adopted home had influenced that sense of tristesse in The Little Prince, which Saint-Exupéry wrote during his 1941–1943 stay in the city....

New York City

The Elevator Paradox at The New School for Social Research

What goes up doesn’t always come down

February 7, 2024 • by Austin Tannenbaum

The elevators at The New School’s 6 East 16th Street building, hide a perplexing paradox. Known for delays and unpredictable patterns, these lifts challenge the student....

The Elevator Paradox at The New School for Social Research

Climate & Ecology

Ethologies of Animal Politics

Do animals have political cultures?

January 29, 2024 • by Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka

Consider the growing ethological evidence of how animal communities themselves do face-to-face politics....

Film & Performing Arts

An Experimental Music Community Grows in Brooklyn

International Anthem Recording Company is changing the face of free jazz

December 11, 2023 • by NJ Smith

A key example of the experimental spirit in the artistic community that International Anthem is documenting is the work of Alabaster DePlume, an English saxophonist, poet, composer, and activist. Last year, in producing the album GOLD, DePlume assembled a group of musicians to record in sessions that were both safe ...

An Experimental Music Community Grows in Brooklyn

Habitats

Market Failures

How do we protect consumers from their own mistakes?

November 27, 2023 • by Cass R. Sunstein

Most motor vehicles emit pollution, including greenhouse gases, and use gasoline that increases national dependence on foreign oil. On standard economic grounds, the result is a market failure in the form of excessive pollution, for which some kind of cap-and-trade system or corrective tax is the best response, designed to ...

Disability

Wilderness, Urban Landscapes, and Biocapacity

In an excerpt from The Architecture of Disability, the author considers the performance of disability in so-called “nature”

October 25, 2023 • by David Gissen

Challenging the physical inaccessibility of national parks might be reimagined as an opportunity to demonstrate the artifice of American nature more broadly. If disability rights are ultimately human rights, then the ideas presented here suggest new, unimagined alliances....