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Manifesto: In Defense of the Democratic Rule of Law in Brazil

June 28, 2016 • by Miriam M.S. Madureira and Yara Frateschi

Introduction On May 12th 2016, the Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, who had been elected in 2014 for a mandate of 4 years, was forced by the Senate, as a result of an impeachment process, to stand down as President of the Republic. Although her removal is supposed to be temporary, lasting up to 180 days, ...

Manifesto: In Defense of the Democratic Rule of Law in Brazil

Education

Toward A Feminism Beyond The Additive Model

June 3, 2016 • by Amir Sadeghi

This post is part of the Gender and Domination Course in OOPS. It’s no secret that feminism has undergone paradigmatic and (sometimes) unfortunate changes attributed to the gestures of the neoliberal turn. Nancy Fraser critiques the desaturated concern for social and gender justice that characterizes a new neoliberal feminism -- one ...

Toward A Feminism Beyond The Additive Model

Education

On Nancy Fraser’s Two Dimensional Conception of Politics

May 12, 2016 • by James Wheeler

This post is part of the Gender and Domination Course in OOPS. Nancy Fraser’s insistence that we must not collapse two distinct modes of justice, recognition and redistribution, is well motivated. As she points out, an exclusive focus on the latter leads to a form of economic reductionism, an outlook according ...

On Nancy Fraser’s Two Dimensional Conception of Politics

Race

Solidarity with Muslim Women: A Personal Letter

December 12, 2015 • by Asifa Quraishi-Landes

Asifa Quraishi-Landes, Associate Professor of Law at University of Wisconsin, sent the following e-mail to her colleagues on December 3, 2015. It was subsequently circulated through her network, resulting in Nancy Fraser bringing it to our attention. We publish it in solidarity with Asifa Quraishi-Landes and "visibly Muslim Women." -JG Hi UW ...

Solidarity with Muslim Women: A Personal Letter

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The Dream of Women’s Emancipation

May 18, 2015 • by Anna Kalashyan

How do socialist feminists of the 21st century theorize struggles against multiple axes and institutions of domination that are inherent to capitalist social order? What do they envision the emancipatory social transformation to look like? Against the background of the global domination of neoliberal values of individualism, entrepreneurship, competitiveness, and self-determination ...

Theory & Practice

Emotions at Work

May 7, 2015 • by Angelica Stathopoulos

The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public-house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save -- the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor dust will devour -- your capital. ...

Theory & Practice

On the Regulation of Sexualities

May 6, 2015 • by Lauren O'Neill-Butler

A set of well-executed arguments in Judith Butler’s essay “Merely Cultural” (1997) and Nancy Fraser’s response to it present a springboard from which we should analyze a crucial link between the social regulation of sexuality and social reproduction. An exemplary instance of this appears in the final chapter of Kevin ...

Race

Capitalism and the Problem of Intersectionality

April 24, 2015 • by Alyssa Adamson

What does it mean to do “intersectional” analysis? Generally it is taken to mean that more than one sort of oppression dynamic is being accounted for (e.g. race and class or gender and race and class), and in that case, it is meant to be an improvement over analyses that only take into consideration one dynamic. ...

Education

O.O.P.S. vs M.O.O.C.s: Midterm Report, Part 1

April 13, 2015 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

“The proponents of M.O.O.C.s (Massive Open Online Courses) look for the magic bullet, hoping to find a technological solution to the crisis in education. The O.O.P.S. (Open Online Public Seminar) project is to use the new technology, the potential of the web, to extend education’s promise.”

With these words, I closed ...

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Rethinking Capitalism: Class 3

February 13, 2015 • by Eli Zaretsky

I think there are two great questions to take away from Nancy Fraser’s approach to understanding capitalism, one small and one large. The smaller one concerns the analogy between feudalism and capitalism. This was not discussed last night but it seems to me important. Both belong to the same set ...

Theory & Practice

OOPS versus MOOCs

February 4, 2015 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

I first thought of writing this post over a year ago as a follow up to my piece “Against the Educational Uncertainty Principle.” I was struck by the way that recent interventions to address the various dimensions of higher educational crisis have made matters worse. MOOCs, Massive Open Online ...

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A Matter of Deep Concern: On Recent Events in Mexico

November 17, 2014 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

Nancy Fraser brought to my attention yesterday two letters of protest concerning recent atrocities in Mexico. The matter is tragic. The need for response is clear. A letter drafted by Maria Pia Lara Zavala, Visiting Professor of Philosophy, New School for Social Research: An Open Letter to the International Academic Community: By now ...