Journals

The Politics of Sight: Revisiting Timothy Pachirat’s Every Twelve Seconds By Jasmine English and Bernardo Zacka, MIT In his ethnography of industrialized slaughter, Every Twelve Seconds, Timothy Pachirat coins a label to describe political interventions […]

The Creative Advance Must Be Defended: Miscegenation, Metaphysics, and Race War in Jan Smuts’s Vision of the League of Nations By Jacob Kripp, Johns Hopkins University This paper argues that the idea of global peace […]

Labor Migration and Climate Change Adaptation By Jamie Draper, University of Oxford Social scientific evidence suggests that labor migration can increase resilience to climate change. For that reason, some have recently advocated using labor migration […]

The Colonial Origins of Modern Territoriality: Property Surveying in the Thirteen Colonies By Kerry Goettlich, University of Reading Most scholars agree the rise of states led to modern territoriality. Yet globally the transition to precise […]

Saving Migrants’ Basic Human Rights from Sovereign Rule By Lukas Schmid, European University Institute States cannot legitimately enforce their borders against migrants if dominant conceptions of sovereignty inform enforcement because these conceptions undermine sufficient respect […]

Save the Appearances! Toward an Arendtian Environmental Politics By Laura Ephraim, Williams College Drawing critical resources from Hannah Arendt, this article argues for a revaluation of the appearances of nature in environmental political theory and […]