Yuna Blajer de la Garza

Please join us on Friday, August 22nd to discuss three new books in political theory!

Screen capture of the first bage of an article in American Political Science Review, reading as follows: Title: "They Attend Strictly to Their Own Business": Disability and the Construction of the Worker-Citizen Ann K. Heffernan, University of Michigan, United States Contributing to a growing interest in disability in political science, this article makes the case for the central role of disability in upholding the belief in work as requisite for full citizenship. Turning to the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it shows how disability and the figure of the disabled worker were used to fortify emergent understandings of work against the changes wrought by industrial capitalism. Focusing on three sites of disabled labor—the school-based workshop, custodial institution, and industrial factory—it reveals the crucial ideological work performed by disability in sustaining the myth of the independent worker-citizen. Where existing scholarship has focused on disability either as an identity category or as a target of rights and policy, this article models an alternative approach, arguing for the relevance of disability as a concept that is integral to, and productive of, the ways we understand citizenship and political belonging.

Coming soon to an open access APSR near you:

(all kidding aside, I'm so happy to see this piece out in the world)

How the Benzene Tree Polluted the World The organic compounds that enabled industrialization are having unintended consequences for the planet’s life.

Certainly! www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

¡Muchas gracias a ambos! Me hicieron el día.

Looking forward to reading it! Many congratulations!!

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

Join us tomorrow, at noon ET, for the next meeting of the "Interpretivists to Intepretive Methods" series organized by APSA's IMM. Richard Holtzman (Bryant) will be our presenter. The talks are free and open to everyone, but registration is required. We hope you can join!

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If you are interested in interpretive methods, I hope you can join the @interpretivemm.bsky.social tomorrow for the research presentations of our Spotlight Scholars!

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Excited for this!

Lecturer in Political Theory

We are hiring TWO political theorists as well as a PPE position which is open to theorists (focus on history of economic thought) - please apply and circulate!

www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/108445-...

College of Arts & Sciences, Paul and Ann Rubino Endowed Professorship (Assistant Professor of Italian American Studies), Tenure Track Salary Range:  $80,000-$87,000Benefits Information:  https://www.luc.edu/hr/benefits/The College of Arts and Sciences at Loyola University Chicago seeks qualified candidates, discipline open, for a te...

I am not on the search committee, but happy to answer questions about Loyola. Here is the link for anyone interested:
www.careers.luc.edu/postings/31133

Loyola has a new search for an Assistant Professor (TT) in Italian American studies. The search is carried out, at large, by the College of Arts and Sciences, and the person hired could be part of any of CAS's departments. I would, of course, love to have a political theorist fill this role!

For those of you interested in ethnographic methods, please join the IMM next Friday, February 21, for a session on Intepretive Interviewing with Fred Schaffer. The sessions are held on Zoom and are open to the public, but registration is required.

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Giving online talk on “Ethics in Academic Publishing” at the SJ Center for Business Ethics on Feb. 10 at 5pm EST.

I’ll be discussing the crisis of for-profit academic journal publishing, the emerging diamond open access alternative, and what we can do.

You can register to attend online here:

This was such a good read, a welcome distraction in these times.

Join the WPSA Political Theory Virtual Community this Friday 1/24, 4-5:30 pm ET to discuss @amitr.bsky.social and Michael Illuzzi's "Stories of Transnational Peoplehood" w/ our very own @tunablazer.bsky.social as commenter! Details here: mailchi.mp/160b383e0469... #polisky #poltheory

Very exciting! Many congratulations and I look forward to reading!

My book, "Local Peace, International Builders," is now OUT.

It examines the conditions under which international actors successfully bring order, peace, and stability to fragile settings.

To read more about each chapter and download the book OPEN ACCESS: www.williamgnomikos.com/local-peace

The next meeting of the WPSA Pol Theory Virtual Colloquium, Fri. Jan. 25, will feature Michael Illuzzi and Amit Ron @amitr.bsky.social presenting their paper "Stories of Transnational Peoplehood," with Yuna Blajer @tunablazer.bsky.social as discussant. Please join us! mailchi.mp/7d46c2cfd817...

A quotation from Gandhi's essay "Is this humanity?"

In the 1920s, Gandhi developed a distinctive, neglected position in animal ethics - "progressive ahimsaism". To encourage scholarship on this, I've extracted his series of essays "Is this humanity?" from the Collected Works and put it on PhilPapers: philpapers.org/rec/GANITH

It's breathtaking both how wrong and how many things are wrong with this guy who believes everything is an alienable commodity.

A reminder about these PhD opportunities. 6+ fully funded open studentships, plus one ring-fenced for UK minority ethnic candidates, in my school. I'm happy to support potential applicants in my research areas, including animal ethics/politics.

Application deadline: 30 January.

#philsky #polisky

Please join the @interpretivemm.bsky.social on Friday, January 10th at 12:00 PM Eastern Time for the next session of the Interpretivists do Interpretive Methods Series!

We will have a talk by the wonderful Diana Kim (Georgetown) on archival research and interpretive methods.

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anyone (know anyone) in Chicago available & interested to teach intro to theory for Loyola next semester? we had a part-time instructor leave unexpectedly and kinda leave us hanging!

Thank you! I'd be curious to hear what you and him think, of course!

Thank you so much, Jamie! And, thank you for your feedback on it! :)

Thank you, Roy!

But it also seeks to show, in a bit-size format, how ethnographic methods can serve political theory. Much of the excellent work on interpretive methods and theory is book-length, and I wanted to write something shorter.

The article, which combines democratic theory and ethnographic work, advances the Tocquevillian point that discussions of seemingly mundane questions in formalized contexts are excellent sites to foster democratic “habits of the heart.”

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I am very excited that this article is out in the world!

"Habits of democracy: practices, mores, and neighborhood meetings in Paris" is now available online at the European Journal of Political Theory.

If you'd like to read it but lack access, let me know.
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