Browsing by Subject "Freedom"
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Collective action and individual choice: rethinking how we regulate narcotics and antibiotics.
(J Med Ethics, 2013-12)Governments across the globe have squandered treasure and imprisoned millions of their own citizens by criminalising the use and sale of recreational drugs. But use of these drugs has remained relatively constant, and the ... -
Dystopia and Political Imagination in the Twentieth Century
(2017)My dissertation offers an interpretation of twentieth century political thought which emphasizes the influence of dystopian images, themes, and anxieties. Drawing examples from philosophy, literature, and social science, ... -
Free to Be a Slave: Slavery as Metaphor in the Afro-Atlantic Religions
(Journal of Religion in Africa, 2007-01-01)Scholars tend to regard enslavement as a form of disability inflicted upon the enslaved. This paper confronts the irony that not all black Atlantic peoples and religions conceive of slavery as an equally deficient condition ... -
Geographies of Freedom: Black Women's Mobility and the Making of the Western River World, 1814-1865
(2018)Geographies of Freedom explores the ways in which free and enslaved black women pursued freedom for themselves and their families in the middle Mississippi River Valley using the law and uniquely gendered access to forms ... -
The Dispersion of Power: Thinking Democratically in the 21st Century
(2017)This dissertation identifies a logic of “equal agency” at the heart of a great deal of contemporary thinking about politics. Scholars and citizens alike, I claim, often use some version of this logic in trying to understand ...