What Is the State For? bookcover

What Is the State For?

4.9/5.0
21,000+ Reviews
Bookshop.org has the highest-rated customer service of any bookstore in the world

Description

Can the nation-state serve social justice? Should social movements work inside or outside the state? What would a just state look like, and how can we get there?
Leading a forum in the latest issue of Boston Review, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò identifies fossil capital as the principal obstacle to a more just world. We face an uphill battle against carbon's capture of the state system, he argues, but state politics remains our best path forward. Respondents--Thea Riofrancos, Mariame Kaba & Andrea Ritchie, Ishac Diwan & Bright Simons, Martin O'Neill & Joe Guinan, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Claudio Lomnitz, and Tara Raghuveer--explore the strategies, possibilities, and limitations of efforts to address the climate crisis and transform the state in the image of justice.
Elsewhere in the issue, Leila Farsakh examines the history and fate of the quest for Palestinian statehood, while Joshua Craze reports on the global rise of militias that vie for power with the states that created them. Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix make the case for a "solidarity state" premised on participation, parity, pluralism, and peace. Janice Fine and Hana Shepherd take us inside a compelling new model of labor law enforcement that is reshaping state and local governments across the country. And Bonnie Tenneriello documents the way prisons neutralize reform, following hard-won legislation to end solitary confinement that has done no such thing.
Plus, Richard Pithouse talks with S'bu Zikode, leader of the Abahlali baseMjondolo movement, about how South Africa's poorest citizens are doing thirty years after apartheid; Jonathan S. Blake reviews recent books by Philip Pettit, Charles S. Maier, and Natasha Wheatley; and Peter E. Gordon traces the rise and fall of theory's engagement with "real questions of suffering and social transformation."

Product Details

PublisherBoston Review
Publish DateJuly 02, 2024
Pages196
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9781946511874
Dimensions8.9 X 5.9 X 0.5 inches | 0.8 pounds

About the Author

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University and the author of the critically acclaimed book Elite Capture. His public philosophy, including articles exploring intersections of climate justice and colonialism, has been featured in The New Yorker, Hammer & Hope (where he is a member of the Editorial Team), The Nation, Boston Review, Dissent, The Appeal, Slate, Al Jazeera, The New Republic, Aeon, and Foreign Policy.

Earn by promoting books

Earn money by sharing your favorite books through our Affiliate program.sign up to affiliate program link
Become an affiliate