A day late to bluesky, but yesterday was the official pub day for 'Roads to Power, Roads to Crisis' with @pennpress.bsky.social
Interested in infrastructure, war, revolution and the rise (and fall) of the British Empire in North America? Get your own copy from www.pennpress.org/978151282828...
The article frames many of the central dilemmas of my current book manuscript, A Real Revolution Within: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Lost Promise of African American Cooperation. I hope you'll take a look...
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Translating this critique into practice proved difficult work and it raised a practical question: how does one attract new participants to such a movement when the depleting psychologies of late modern capitalism are ascendent?
In his mind, African American cooperative movements were more than a method to accrue economic power; they enacted a readjustment of ideals away from individual wealth accumulation and toward public service, enabling exploited communities to find "new ways of doing things."
Throughout his life, Du Bois theorized consumers' cooperation as a key practice of industrial democracy. I leverage these cooperative investment to reveal Du Bois's critique of the psycho-social regime of capitalism, taking us beyond his theory of the "public and psychological wages" of whiteness.
I would like to announce my new article in the journal Political Theory. "Enacting a "Readjustment of Ideals": W.E.B. Du Bois and the Cooperative Critique of Capitalism" assembles an archive of published and unpublished material to reconstruct Du Bois's cooperative critique of capitalism.
I haven't been on here in a while, but excited to announce that my professional website is finally up and running! And just in time for the job market 🤓. I'd love for you to take a look...
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I hope it is not lost, in all of the chaos at the federal level, that there are many longstanding, discretionary programs that are on the Administration's chopping block, either directly or through the erosion of agency staff, expertise, and capacity. Programs enacted and reauthorized through...
BU’s decision to end some of their PhD programs is distressing for many reasons. The top on my list is that even leaders in higher ed are succumbing to the argument that learning and knowing as practices of freedom aren’t necessary, useful, or worth preserving.
Are degrees only worth pursuing if there is a clear job waiting on the other end? Is #highered no longer a #KnowledgeCommons? The #academy is the only discovery engine with no profit motive. Students gain & share valuable knowledge and insights in the process and contribute to society. #AcademicSky
What it looked like outside Moulton's office today, curtesy of Jonathon Cohn.
Democrats should not leave LGBTQ+ people behind. They are a large part of the Democratic base, a force with real voting power, and should not be taken for granted.
Thinking of the late great Toni Morrison in these dark times.”She [the old woman] is convinced that when language dies— out of carelessness, disuse, an absence of esteem indifference, or killed by fiat—not only she herself but all users and makers are accountable for its demise.”