SASKIA SASSEN is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University (www.saskiasassen.com). She was interviewed for New Politics by editors Riad Azar and Saulo Colón about her new book, Expulsions: When ... more abstractSASKIA SASSEN is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University (www.saskiasassen.com). She was interviewed for New Politics by editors Riad Azar and Saulo Colón about her new book, Expulsions: When Complexity Produces Elementary Brutalities (Harvard University Press, 2014).

Sociology, Social Theory, Political Economy, Social Sciences, Globalization, and 5 more

Interview with LSE Professor of Social Theory Nigel Dodd

Sociology, Economic Sociology, Social Theory, Economics, Political Theory, and 2 more

Conference paper presented to the RC 36: Alienation Theory and Research committee of the International Sociological Association. How do migrant professionals in London experience deskilling, and what can their exper... more abstractConference paper presented to the RC 36: Alienation Theory and Research committee of the International Sociological Association. How do migrant professionals in London experience deskilling, and what can their experience tell us about the relationship between labor, migration, and classical theories of alienation.

Industrial And Labor Relations, Sociology, Economic Sociology, Labor Economics, Sociology of Work, and 12 more

Ask anyone what neoliberalism means and they’ll tell you it’s an economic system that corresponds to a particular economic philosophy. But any real-world economic system has a corresponding political system to promote... more abstractAsk anyone what neoliberalism means and they’ll tell you it’s an economic system that corresponds to a particular economic philosophy. But any real-world economic system has a corresponding political system to promote and sustain it. Milton Friedman, who has be- come known as the father of neoliberal thinking, claims in his text Capitalism and Freedom that “the role of the government ... is to do something that the market cannot do for itself, namely, to determine, arbitrate, and enforce the rules of the game.” While neoliberalism’s advocates like to claim that the political system that corresponds to their economic preference is a democratic, minimal state, in practice, the neoliberal state has demonstrated quite the opposite tendency.

Legitimacy and Authority, Marxism, Neoliberalism, Authoritarianism, State, and 4 more

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Traducido del original @ http://newpol.org/content/neoliberalism-austerity-and-authoritarianism

Legitimacy and Authority, Louis Althusser, Neoliberalism, Chile, Structuralism (Philosophy), and 7 more

ethnographic reportage on deforestation, child prostitution, and environmental destruction in the Peruvian Amazon, told from the perspective of migrant workers on riverboats run by organized crime syndicates.

Latin American Studies, Ethnography, and Amazonia

Publication Name: Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture

Kali Akuno served as the coordinator of special projects and external funding for Jackson Mississippi’s late Mayor Chokwe Lumumba. He is co-founder and director of Cooperation Jackson as well as an organizer with the... more abstractKali Akuno served as the coordinator of special projects and external funding for Jackson Mississippi’s late Mayor Chokwe Lumumba. He is co-founder and director of Cooperation Jackson as well as an organizer with the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement. He was interviewed by email by Riad Azar and Saulo Colón, both members of the New Politics editorial board.

Black Studies Or African American Studies, Marxism, Race and Racism, Social movements and revolution, Cooperatives, and 4 more

Publication Date: Jun 1, 2015

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Introduction for special section on the intersections of racism, capitalism, the militarization of American police: HISTORICALLY, THE AMERICAN JUSTICE system has refused to hold accountable police officers responsi... more abstractIntroduction for special section on the intersections of racism, capitalism, the militarization of American police: HISTORICALLY, THE AMERICAN JUSTICE system has refused to hold accountable police officers responsible for murder. This reality, and the fact of abuse and brutality as the modus operandi of policing in poor and working-class areas, was the catalyst of many of the “race rebellions” of the twentieth century. This century has been no different. The killings have not stopped. The murders of Walter Scott in South Carolina and Fred- die Gray in Baltimore are just the two latest atrocities to grab national attention, sparking protests and demonstrations for justice across the country. Admittedly, these are only the publicized cases; data on the number of people killed by police is not recorded.

Race and Racism, Social Justice, Capitalism, Military and Politics, Military and Police Affairs, and 1 more

Publication Name: New Politics

Joseph Daher is a member of the Revolutionary Left Current in Syria. He is the writer and editor of Syria Freedom Forever, syriafreedomforever.wordpress.com, a blog dedicated to the struggle of the Syrian people in th... more abstractJoseph Daher is a member of the Revolutionary Left Current in Syria. He is the writer and editor of Syria Freedom Forever, syriafreedomforever.wordpress.com, a blog dedicated to the struggle of the Syrian people in their uprising to overthrow the Assad authoritarian regime and to build a democratic, secular, socialist, anti-imperialist, and pro-resistance Syria. A Ph.D. student in Development, he works as an assistant at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. He was interviewed in Geneva on October 22, 2014, by New Politics board member Riad Azar, with some email updates. For additional questions on Kobanê and Turkey, see the New Politics website here.

Middle East Studies, Revolutions, Syria, Middle East Politics, and Ethnic Conflict and Civil War

Publication Name: New Politics

Socio-spatial ethnography of warehouse community in London. How to find value outside the commodity form.

Urban Studies, Urban Sociology, and Urban Design

Review of Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis ROBERT D. PUTNAM Simon & Schuster, 2015. 400 pp. Hardcover, $28.

Sociology, Social Theory, Social Sciences, Marxism, Class, and 1 more

Occupy was the largest political mobilization of my lifetime. The explosion of energy it produced gave the feeling of perpetuity, with thousands of volunteers supporting each other through donations of food and standi... more abstractOccupy was the largest political mobilization of my lifetime. The explosion of energy it produced gave the feeling of perpetuity, with thousands of volunteers supporting each other through donations of food and standing together in solidarity against the police. But as the encampments became rooted, many had to check their excitement with a growing sense of disillusionment. It was clear that the Occupy strategy, and how it played out in practice, was rife with weaknesses that were ultimately exploited by those who sought to destroy Occupy and the discourse that it created. The Occupiers: The making of the 99 percent movement is a post-Occupy analysis of the movement from an on-the-ground first-person perspective. The author, Michael A. Gould-Watofsky, is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at New York University, studying social movements. While the text presents many facts to help us analyze Occupy, Gould-Wartofsky’s findings rest on a contradictory methodology that is characteristic of sloppy social science.

Ethnography, Alter-globalization, Book Reviews, Michael Burawoy, Occupy Wall Street, and 3 more

Book Review: The Fair Trade Scandal by Ndongo Sylla

Marxism, Marxist Economics, International Trade, Marxist theory, Marxist political economy, and 3 more

Publication Name: New Politics

A review of the film Still the Enemy Within about the UK 1984 Miners Strike

Film Analysis, Trade unionism, Ethnographic Film, Documentary Film, United Kingdom, and 1 more

Publication Name: Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture