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{"title":"Power from Below: An Interview with Nargess Mustapha, Co-Founder of Hoodstock (2022 Cloward & Piven Award Recipients)","authors":"Kara Sheppard-Jones","doi":"10.1080/07393148.2023.2181538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07393148.2023.2181538","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Every year, the caucus for critical political science of the American Association of Political Science grants the Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven Award to an activist group in the region of the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA). In 2022, APSA took place in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. This year’s recipient of the award is Hoodstock, a movement-based organization that aims to eliminate systemic inequalities and build supportive, inclusive, safe, and vibrant communities. The author and interviewer is a graduate student in Political Science at McGill University where she conducted fieldwork on people power and intersectional organizing in Montreal. In the following piece, she interviews one of the cofounders of Hoodstock.","PeriodicalId":46114,"journal":{"name":"New Political Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48727907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ecocritique: An Enduring View of Power and the Eco/Logical Order","authors":"J. Lawrence","doi":"10.1080/07393148.2022.2146295","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07393148.2022.2146295","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Encouraging broad collective acknowledgement of how this contemporary moment of compounding ecological pressure, deepening global economic inequality, and rising political violence has emerged, ecocritique offers and understanding of how and why climate emergency is simultaneously a crisis of accountability and democracy and a struggle for power and knowledge. Excavating the roots of environmental discourse and evaluating the underlying values and logics of environmentalism is requisite to interventions into ecosystems of harm and locating the leverage points for healing socio-ecological rifts, including within the environmental scholarship and social movements. As a tool for environmental theory and critical methodology, ecocritique hold significant transformational potential, offering an alternative power/knowledge formulation which questions the logic of scarcity and accumulation and exposes uneven systems of power and economy. As a demand for accountability, ecocritique charts a path toward transformative environmentalities and environmentalisms that privilege an ethic of care for present and into the future.","PeriodicalId":46114,"journal":{"name":"New Political Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49665712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Marx in Movement: Operaismo in Context","authors":"Samuel Beckenhauer","doi":"10.1080/07393148.2022.2146290","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07393148.2022.2146290","url":null,"abstract":"Antonio Negri’s Marx in Movement: Operaismo in Context (2022) is the first installment of a planned trilogy. This work collects Negri’s foundational texts and recent talks relating to his theoretical interventions on operaismo or workerism. The book contains three parts. The first theorizes the formation of what Negri calls the social worker, emphasizing the importance of cognitive labor, and the processes of subjectivation as a response to worker upheavals with three essays published between 1974 and 1992. The second section, “Workers and Capital Today,” investigates contemporary alterations in class composition. Negri here uses the concept of immaterial labor, as well as Karl Marx’s notions of the general intellect and real subsumption. Finally, in the third section, “Polemical Considerations,” Negri strongly opposes the “post” in so-called post-operaismo and reflects on his own political break with Mario Tronti. This break, Negri suggests, came down to Tronti’s calculation that national political sovereignty is required to tame transnational capital. Negri theorizes transformations in labor since the 1960s. He argues that changes in labor after ‘1968’ can primarily be understood as a reaction by capital to worker militancy. The production and modulation of subjectivity takes on greater focus as labor becomes more collaborative, non-repetitive, and integrated alongside information technologies. Negri compares what he calls the “mass” worker—whom he associates with Taylorism’s labor process, Fordism’s working-day and wage relation, and Keynesian state intervention (14–15)—to the social worker, who takes form following the social protests symbolized by the year 1968. For him, the end of the Bretton Woods system and the 1973 oil crisis informed capital’s reaction to worker upheaval. Mobility thus becomes a key governing strategy as it is re-signified as constitutive of freedom and prevents worker organization (22). The ascendance of the social worker transforms class struggle and requires new theoretical tools (35). Immaterial labor is the labor of the social worker, who finds herself increasingly enmeshed within digital networks and flows of information. On the topic of immaterial labor, Negri mobilizes Marx’s concept of real subsumption to extend Michel Foucault’s analysis of neoliberalism’s production of the “entrepreneur of the self.” Post-","PeriodicalId":46114,"journal":{"name":"New Political Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42105989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"On the Rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography","authors":"C. Gallemore","doi":"10.1080/07393148.2022.2146293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07393148.2022.2146293","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46114,"journal":{"name":"New Political Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42301563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Specter of Babel: A Reconstruction of Political Judgement","authors":"N. Harris","doi":"10.1080/07393148.2022.2146287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07393148.2022.2146287","url":null,"abstract":"The Spectre of Babel is a remarkable achievement. Thompson presents a no-holds barred attack on the post-metaphysical turn and its various avatars across Ethics, Critical Theory, Political Philosophy, and Social Theory. Thompson details how the academy ’ s warm embrace of pragmatics, intersubjectivity, and discourse need to be seen as deeply mis-taken: such post-metaphysical approaches are unable to act as a fulcrum for political judgement and can ironically further the rise of polarized, individualistic, and acritical pub-lics. For him, by centring abstracted intersubjective practices (be it the exchange of justifi-cations, recognition, inter alia ) critical scholarship loses its anchor in the objective social world; for example, that you and I may agree on topic X does not make our understanding of X objectively correct. Thompson ruthlessly exposes this and other weaknesses of the post-metaphysical turn. But this is not just a work of critique. Rather, Thompson proposes a radical solution: a (re-)turn to a critical social ontology, a remedy he prescribes in detail. This is thus a must-read book for philosophers, sociologists, and Critical Theorists alike. The Spectre consists of an introduction and eight substantial chapters, divided into two parts: In the Courtyard of Babel: Postmetaphysics [ sic ] and the Failure of Critical Judgement , and, Beyond Babel: Social Ontology and the Reconstruction of Critical Reason . In crude summary, Part One can be read as stating, today ’ s post-metaphysical scholarship is deeply problematic for various reasons. Part Two more or less states, here is how and why a critical social ontology would make things better. The book is propelled by the fear of the titular specter, a situation where each subject holds to a self-circumscribed explanatory and justificatory framework, devoid of reference to the external world. Thompson offers his critical","PeriodicalId":46114,"journal":{"name":"New Political Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48628948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Prisms of the People: Power and Organizing in Twenty-First-Century America","authors":"D. Forrest","doi":"10.1080/07393148.2022.2146289","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07393148.2022.2146289","url":null,"abstract":"offers several exciting new avenues for future research. McNally argues future research should consider the relationship between legislative reputations and members’ legislative effectiveness, campaign promises, and progressive ambition. Additionally, I think future research could consider whether McNally’s conceptualization of legislative reputations can be expanded to consider the representation of other groups and whether there are factors other than the advocacy window that cause members to work toward specific reputations. McNally only considers actions taken by members once elected to office in constructing their legislative reputation scores, but future research could consider how members’ experiences prior to being elected influence the reputations they pursue. Overall, I believe Representing the Disadvantaged should be of interest to scholars of American politics broadly and will likely become required readings for classes on Congress and representation.","PeriodicalId":46114,"journal":{"name":"New Political Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44462763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Political Science Pedagogy: A Critical, Radical and Utopian Perspective","authors":"Jason Kosnoski","doi":"10.1080/07393148.2022.2146292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07393148.2022.2146292","url":null,"abstract":"William Sokoloff’s Political Science Pedagogy: A Critical, Radical and Utopian Perspective, while grounded in a critical assessment of teaching methods for political theory, constitutes an exciting intervention into wider discussions of classroom practices relevant for both political science and the social sciences in general. It argues that a critical, democratic pedagogy should be grounded in the cultivation of the voice of students through visceral, action oriented, egalitarian classroom practice. The book makes its argument through both analysis of political theory texts and presentation of examples of innovative classroom practice. Its underlying premise is that, perhaps ironically, most political science education does not prepare students to be effective citizens or democratic political actors. Instead, both conservative-traditional and liberal-cosmopolitan oriented classroom practice rely upon under-acknowledged power inequalities between students and faculty that undermine the learner’s ability to engage with the material in ways that would empower them as democratic political actors. Sokoloff specifies this critique through incisive analysis of one of the main teaching methods with which political theorists shape their courses—that of dialogue. In his chapter on the surprising similarity among Leo Strauss, Sheldon Wolin and Socrates, he argues that traditional understandings of classroom dialogue, whether manifesting itself in terms of course substance or classroom practice, constitutes an impediment to the development of democratic civic skills. In the case of Strauss and Wolin, Sokoloff claims that, while Strauss’s hostility to democracy is well known, the work of liberal Wolin actually reflects many of these same biases. To Sokoloff, Wolin’s surprising support of authoritarianism is grounded in his understanding of political theory as entering “into a debate the terms of which have largely been set beforehand” that is further “transmitted as cultural legacy” (38-39). Sokoloff claims Wolin’s reliance upon a dialogue with a predetermined cannon around a limited number of topics undermines the cultivation of students’ imagination and agency. Instead he advocates for a “fugitive textuality” (47) where students exercise “playful","PeriodicalId":46114,"journal":{"name":"New Political Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44408899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Political Economy of Populist Reason in The Netherlands","authors":"Simon Tunderman","doi":"10.1080/07393148.2022.2129923","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07393148.2022.2129923","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article argues that the appeal of different populist parties in the Netherlands should be understood against the backdrop of class dynamics in the Dutch economy. Changes in the structure of capital accumulation have led to a rise in precarious working conditions, and real estate increasingly functions as an investment opportunity, causing housing prices to skyrocket. The resulting political-economic crisis dynamic constitutes fruitful ground for populist opposition voices. Adopting Ernesto Laclau’s framework, the article analyzes the 2021 election programs of three populist parties to trace the contingent articulations of economic demands in wider constructions of “the people.” Radical right-wing populist parties, such as Partij voor de Vrijheid and Forum voor Democratie articulate class demands as part of broader populist projects based on xenophobic exclusions or “globalist” conspiracy theories. On the left, the Socialist Party constructs a more classical opposition between workers and capitalists. The article is theoretically innovative insofar as it shows how populist reason and contingent class dynamics can be considered from a comprehensive perspective.","PeriodicalId":46114,"journal":{"name":"New Political Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41571211","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Good Short-Time Work for All","authors":"Tom Malleson","doi":"10.1080/07393148.2022.2129924","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07393148.2022.2129924","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper advances three arguments. First, current working-time patterns are destructive of justice, especially in terms of environmental sustainability, gender equality, and personal autonomy. Second, making fundamental progress towards these goals requires secure, quality, short-time work for all. This refers to an economic system that would guarantee everyone a decent, secure, existence at roughly 30 hours or less of market work, as well as actively discouraging longer hours. This discouragement should take the form of “soft” state policies as well as new cultural norms; it should not take “hard” forms of state violence. Third, liberal proceduralists are wrong to believe that individuals should be free from state regulation to simply choose the amount of work/leisure that they see fit, since doing so creates all kinds of harms for other people. In fact, the state should actively disincentivize long work hours in order to augment social justice.","PeriodicalId":46114,"journal":{"name":"New Political Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47592570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“We Come Here to Work:” US Au Pairs and Rights Claiming during a Care Crisis","authors":"Grace Reinke","doi":"10.1080/07393148.2022.2129201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07393148.2022.2129201","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper argues that, despite au pairs’ provision of valuable service to US families, their legal classification as cultural exchange participants, historical devaluation of care work, and persistent domination via gender, nation, and citizenship all contribute to their marginalization in movements for labor rights. Using historical, demographic, and interview evidence, I show that, while au pairs are likely to identify as laborers rather than cultural exchange agents, they are less likely than more traditional workers to identify with burgeoning legal movements. This lack of identification results from the invisibilization of care labor broadly, rather than the absence of legal consciousness.","PeriodicalId":46114,"journal":{"name":"New Political Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47248737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}