Democracy and Empire - Labor, Nature, and the Reproduction of Capitalism

Reconceptualizes central notions in political theory to make sense of the systems of imperial popular sovereignty and self-determination.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Empire, Popular Sovereignty, and the Problem of Self-and-Other-Determination; 2. Socialism and Empire: Labor Mobility, Popular Sovereignty, and the Genesis of Racial Regimes; 3. The Brown Family and Social Reproduction in US Capitalism; 4. Techno-Racism, Manual Labor, and Du Bois's Ecological Critique; 5. Anti-Imperial Popular Sovereignty and the Politics of Transnational Solidarity; 6. Anti-Imperial Popular Sovereignty and the Politics of Transnational Solidarity.

About the author

Inés Valdez is a political theorist and Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University. Her research on critical theory and racial capitalism approaches politics transnationally and historically. Her award-winning work appears in the American Political Science Review and Political Theory. She is the author of Transnational Cosmopolitanism (2019).

Summary

Reconceptualizes central notions in political theory, utilizing insights from the Black radical tradition, to make sense of the systems of imperial popular sovereignty and self-determination. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Foreword

Reconceptualizes central notions in political theory to make sense of the systems of imperial popular sovereignty and self-determination.

Product details

• Authors: Inés Valdez, Ines (The Johns Hopkins University Valdez
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.01.2025
• EAN: 9781009384001
• ISBN: 978-1-009-38400-1
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Political science & theory, Political science and theory, Sociology and anthropology, Central / national / federal government