Connecting with people from around the world is much easier now than it has ever been before. With the internet, phones, and fast travel, we can build relationships and networks in new ways - breaking through the barriers of national boundaries. This development of relationships and their influence despite national borders is known as transnationalism, a social phenomenon that we will be focusing on throughout a four part series.
Justice has been a reference point for radical and critical geographers for more than 40 years. Geographers’ engagements with issues of justice, however, have always been defined by wariness toward political philosophies of justice. These are variously considered too liberal, too distributive in their orientation, or too universalizing. The wariness, in short, indicates the parameters that define the prevalent spatial imaginary of radical and critical human geography: self-consciously oppositional, concerned with the production of structural relations, sensitive to context and difference. Barnett explore two overlapping strands of contemporary political philosophy and political theory that have recently developed arguments for ‘the priority of injustice’ in the elaboration of democratic theory.
From the Social Theory Spring 2015 Lecture Series, Transnational Lives, February 27th, 2015.
The 18th Annual University of Kentucky Graduate Student Conference
8-8:50 - Pastries and Coffee
9-11:30, 12:45-3:00 PM - Speaker Series
3:15 - Keynote: Dr. David Sussman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
5:00 PM - Adjourn
Co-sponsered by the University of Kentucky Department of Philosophy, Committee on Social Theory, the Graduate School, and the College of Arts & Sciences.
Every spring the Committee on Social Theory offers the team-taught seminar—always with four professors. Previous course themes/names for the seminar have included “Law, Sex, and Family” “Autobiography,” and “Security.” But previous seminars may not have spoken so directly to the professors’ personal backgrounds as “Transnational Lives” does with this team of four.
American Book Award winnder Emily Raboteau will read from and discuss her most recent work "Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora"
Sponsored by African American & Africana Studies Program, English Creative Writing Program, Jewish Studies Program, and Social Theory Program.
"'We believe' - but who are 'we'?" The Relational Subject versus the Plural Subject
Margaret S. Archer Centre d'Ontologie Sociale Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanna
December 12, 2014 University of Kentucky College of Arts & Sciences
