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#OnArrive — But Where Are We?

Unpacking the electoral performance of Europe’s nationalist right

May 31, 2019 • by Mabel Berezin

The last time citizens of European Union member states displayed enthusiasm for the European Parliamentary elections was in 1979 when turnout was 61.9 percent. 1979 was the year that the elections began and the year that the Union consisted of only nine members. In the five Parliamentary elections that have ...

Education

New School Gestalt and its Hidden Sociology

Anatole Broyard at The New School

April 16, 2019 • by Mark Larrimore

Because they were displaced themselves, or angry with us for failing to understand history, the professors did their best to make us feel like exiles in our own country. … All the courses I took were about what's wrong: what's wrong with our government, with the family, with interpersonal relations ...

New School Gestalt and its Hidden Sociology

Race

Violence is What We Were Paid To Do, Part III

The LAPD and the Rodney King Affair

February 22, 2018 • by Eileen Chen

Below is the final segment of a three part series examining the history of police brutality in Los Angeles. This series was originally a paper submitted for the Sociology of Power and Authority class taught by Isaac Ariail Reed at University of Virginia. The first two segments tracked the inner ...

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Violence is What We Were Paid To Do, Part II

The LAPD and the Rodney King Affair

February 21, 2018 • by Eileen Chen

Below is the second segment of a three part series examining the history of police brutality in Los Angeles. This series was originally a paper submitted for the Sociology of Power and Authority class taught by Isaac Ariail Reed at University of Virginia. The previous piece laid the groundwork detailing ...

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Violence is What We Were Paid To Do, Part I

The LAPD and the Rodney King Affair

February 20, 2018 • by Eileen Chen

Below is the first segment of a three part series examining the history of police brutality in Los Angeles leading up to the brutal beating of Rodney King. This series was originally a paper submitted for the Sociology of Power and Authority class taught by Isaac Ariail Reed at University ...

Violence is What We Were Paid To Do, Part I

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Aftershock: A Discussion with John Feffer

February 19, 2018 • by The Editors

Wednesday, February 21, 2018 AT 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM Wolff Conference Room, Albert and Vera List Academic Center 6 East 16th Street, New York, NY 10003, Room D1103 The Transregional Center for Democratic Studies invites you to the first of our Global Dialogues Fellowship Lecture Series featuring author and political analyst John Feffer. Feffer will ...

Aftershock: A Discussion with John Feffer

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The Speaker’s Grovel

The constitutional role of the Speaker of the House

February 12, 2018 • by John Lawrence

We may not know how the ultimate budget impasse of 2018 will be resolved (the next shutdown deadline having been delayed six weeks). Nor do we know the resolution of the increasingly tense DACA dilemma – unnecessarily created by President Trump’s decision to rescind the broadly supported program. But as ...

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Toward Sanctuary Summits

Hosted by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics

February 12, 2018 • by The Editors

Keynote Conversation: Thursday, February 15, 7 – 8:30 pm The New School, Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street Stewardship Curriculum Workshop: Friday, February 16, 12:30 – 4:30 pm The New School, José Clemente Orozco Room, 66 West 12th Street, 7th floor Admission free. Please RSVP here for the Keynote and here for the Workshop. Just over a year into ...

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The Symbolic Violence of Gentrification, Part V

The neoliberal doxa of the state

February 9, 2018 • by Stefano Rumi

Below is the final segment of an essay in five parts written by University of Virginia student Stefano Rumi for Isaac Reed's Sociology of Power and Authority course. *** As discussed part I and II, third-wave gentrification can be understood of as the neoliberal state’s response to post-Fordist urban decline at the ...

The Symbolic Violence of Gentrification, Part V

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The Symbolic Violence of Gentrification, Part IV

Applying Bourdieu’s theory of symbolic power

February 8, 2018 • by Stefano Rumi

Below is part four of an essay in five parts, written by University of Virginia student Stefano Rumi for Isaac Reed's Sociology of Power and Authority course. Previously, Rumi criticized incorporations of Pierre Bourdieu’s habitus in discussing gentrification as less applicable to third-wave gentrification, and excusatory of gentrifiers’ destructive actions in re-appropriating and ...

The Symbolic Violence of Gentrification, Part IV

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The Symbolic Violence of Gentrification, Part III

Understanding and reframing gentrification debates today

February 7, 2018 • by Stefano Rumi

Below is the third segment of an essay in five parts by University of Virginia student Stefano Rumi, written for Sociology of Power and Authority course taught by Isaac Reed. Part two discussed the nature of third-wave gentrification, and why it has evolved from a relatively small, localized phenomenon into ...

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The Symbolic Violence of Gentrification, Part II

Conceptualizing Gentrification Today

February 6, 2018 • by Stefano Rumi

In first segment in this five-part series, Stefano Rumi suggested that gentrification has mutated into a remarkably consistent and replicable phenomenon of urban development in diverse cities across the world. In the second segment, below, Rumi further explores this new form of gentrification, entitled “third-wave gentrification,” and its inequitable effects ...