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Category: Legal theories and philosophy

Politics in the age of the double-bind: Anti-elitism and anti-populism

By Andrea Shieber | 18 July 2019

by Elena Paris[i], Christos Marneros[ii] with Dr Thanos Zartaloudis The workshop was generously supported and sponsored by the following research centres and groups to whom we … Read more

Can States be progressive? On Re-imagining the state

By Andrea Shieber | 01 June 2016

The following article is authored by Tom Kemp, a PhD candidate in Law at Kent Law School. His work investigates the prefigurative thought within anti-immigration-detention … Read more

Prefigurative talk and academic conversation

By Andrea Shieber | 18 January 2016

Reposted from Professor Davina Cooper’s blog ‘social politics and stuff’ Academic discussion typically appears as clustered conversations. This post focuses on the dilemma posed by prefigurative … Read more

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