On April 9, Jodi Dean published a blog post “Palestine speaks for everyone” for Verso Books in which she expresses support for Palestinian resistance. She has since been removed from teaching responsibilities (temporarily, until the end of term) by her employer, Hobart and William Smith Colleges. I took special interest in this news because I’ve been influenced by Dean’s scholarship on solidarity. Her definition is a foundation for an article that Janet Jones and I recently published on … [Read more...]
Leaving #AtHomeWithArendt
In 2019, we launched a blog series called #AtHomeWithArendt. This series was intended to share research coming out of From Rootlessness to Belonging: An Arendtian Critique of the Family as a Structure of Refugee Assimilation, a research grant awarded from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Government of Canada). Katy, and her collaborator Dr. Rita A. Gardiner, were thinking about issues of refugee resettlement through the lens of Hannah Arendt’s philosophy. Janet came onto the … [Read more...]
World-building through stories
Once upon a time in book club . . . I was surprised when a person in my book club expressed an anti-feminist sentiment. I had forgotten that this person had problems with (or, perhaps more charitably, misconceptions about) feminist politics. Imagine that the person in my book club habitually, rather than infrequently, expresses views that I interpret as anti-feminist. If it were not for book club, I likely would not choose to spend time with them. That’s not how I want to spend my down … [Read more...]
Running with Arendt
My name is Janet. I’m an Applied Philosophy PhD student at the University of Waterloo. I’m an advocate for people with addiction. And I’m a runner. Running doesn’t quite fit in with the other descriptors. When I meet new people, I get asked about what I do, where I’m from, or what I hope to do after I graduate. Running, by comparison, is something I only talk about with people who know me more personally. Friends and family are the only ones that know, for example, that I got ‘serious’ about … [Read more...]
Political Activism as Work
Black women’s unpaid political activism deserves acknowledgement. Economist Nina Banks argues that their community work should count as a form of work. And she means “count” literally! Community activism as work Feminist economists have highlighted how neoclassical economics wrongfully excluded domestic work, primarily done by women, as productive work that contributes to the economy. Likewise, Banks argues that both mainstream and feminist economists have missed how the community is a site … [Read more...]
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