{"id":5004,"date":"2021-10-04T11:04:55","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T10:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/?p=5004"},"modified":"2021-10-04T11:56:37","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T10:56:37","slug":"5004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/2021\/10\/04\/5004\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Albena Azmanova receives the Michael Harrington Book Award\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/brussels\/people\/2607\/azmanova-albena\">Dr Albena Azmanova<\/a> is recipient of the American Political Science Association&#8217;s 2021\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s27\/executive-committee\/michael-harrington-book-award\/\">Michael Harrington Book Award<\/a>\u00a0for her\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/cup.columbia.edu\/book\/capitalism-on-edge\/9780231195379\">Capitalism on Edge<\/a>:\u00a0How Fighting Precarity Can Achieve Radical Change Without Crisis or Utopia<\/em>,\u00a0(Columbia University Press 2020).<\/p>\n<p>This award &#8220;recognizes an outstanding book that demonstrates how scholarship can be used in the struggle for a better world&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>With its analysis of generalised precarity, the book has impacted the terms of political debate as it has drawn the discussion of social justice beyond its habitual focus on inequality.<\/p>\n<p>The eminent U.S. economist James Galbraith <a href=\"https:\/\/www.project-syndicate.org\/say-more\/an-interview-with-james-k-galbraith-2020-11\">has called it<\/a> &#8216;the big-think book of our time&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This award is a testimony to the vibrant intellectual climate at University of Kent &#8211; Brussels School of International Studies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Dr Albena Azmanova is recipient of the American Political Science Association&#8217;s 2021\u00a0Michael Harrington Book Award\u00a0for her\u00a0Capitalism on Edge:\u00a0How Fighting Precarity Can Achieve Radical Change &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/2021\/10\/04\/5004\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51111,"featured_media":4821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5004"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5009,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5004\/revisions\/5009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}