Getting the Insight Out
The Canadian government’s Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls reveals systemic failures, entrenched in colonial, heteropatriarchal frameworks that perpetuate violence. Anthropologists Audra Simpson and Paulina García-Del Moral argue that productive change requires acknowledging settler-state motives and dismantling structural domination
Last month, King Charles’ parliamentary address was disrupted by the protest of an Indigenous senator, her words demand that we evaluate the colonial history of Australia and consider the role the British Crown continues to play in Australian poli
My social media is constantly flooded with political statements, condemnations, and demands for others to repost. While I empathize with the causes my peers are ardently supporting, I’ve questioned whether More
In the past months, Trudeau has survived two non-confidence votes despite just 33 per cent of Canadians approving of the Prime Minister’s leadership. This separation between the popular will and More
The question of toxic masculinity and that of the patriarchy have been presented and analyzed ad nauseam. The words are in all mouths; so much so that it becomes unclear as to what meaning they actually bear in common usage. It therefore becomes all the more necessary to recognize what meaning they do bear and how they denote realities that must be addressed. This article aims to suggest a way in which we can understand these terms and the phenomena they refer to that allows both for efficient action and conceptual exploration.
Adopted by the UN on September 13th, 2007, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) serves to uphold the rights that “constitute the minimum standards for More
Upon our first meeting, the members of this editorial team realized we would all follow the two first courses of the History of Western Political Thought sequence this year. We therefore decided to try and present an article re-actualizing a piece of historical political theory every publishing cycle. This week, we start with Plato’s seminal Republic. He probably would have disliked much of what Radical Feminism suggests. But he can’t argue anymore. So his immortal soul has to read this article and be indignant in Greek.
Sofia Vaillant Forlini, Editor, Political Theory Section
Congressional Republicans have made headlines recently calling for the revocation of Major League Baseball’s antitrust exemption in retaliation to the league’s political activism. Following the passage of a controversial restrictive More
The intensification of intimate partner violence (IPV), especially domestic violence, is an often-overlooked consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the beginning of the pandemic, individuals’ restricted movement, social isolation and More
The farmer protests in India began in August 2020 in response to the passage of three controversial laws paving the way for free-market reform in the country’s agricultural sector. Though More