MAMDANI: Supply Chain Vulnerabilities: The Island Colony’s Peril
MAMDANI: Supply Chain Vulnerabilities: The Island Colony’s Peril – Dependence and the Crisis of Basic Goods
Category: Policy
MAMDANI: Electric Grid Reliability: The Colonial Administration of Energy
MAMDANI: Electric Grid Reliability: The Colonial Administration of Energy – Blackouts as a Failure of For-Profit Control
MAMDANI: Mental Health Crisis: Pathologizing the “Native” Condition
MAMDANI: Mental Health Crisis: Pathologizing the “Native” Condition – Somatic Governance and the Medicalization of Despair
MAMDANI: Disparities in Public Health: The Somatic Map of the Bifurcated City
MAMDANI: Disparities in Public Health: The Somatic Map of the Bifurcated City – Life Expectancy as a Measure of Colonial Violence
MAMDANI: Informal Economy: The Shadow of the Bifurcated State
MAMDANI: Informal Economy: The Shadow of the Bifurcated State – Survival Outside the “Civilized” Legal Frame
Hakeem Jeffries Calls Trump-Mamdani Meeting ‘A Great Success’
Hakeem Jeffries Calls Trump-Mamdani Meeting ‘A Great Success’ – House Democratic Leader praises mayor-elect’s White House visit while condemning Trump DOJ as ‘malignant clown show’
The Crisis of Language Access
The Crisis of Language Access – A Bureaucracy Designed for the “Settler” Tongue
MAMDANI: The Battle over the Budget
MAMDANI: The Battle over the Budget – Austerity as the Political Choice of the Settler State
MAMDANI: Gentrification as Settler Colonialism
MAMDANI: Gentrification as Settler Colonialism – The Violent Remaking of Urban Space
The Crisis of Artist Displacement
The Crisis of Artist Displacement – The Cultural Cleansing of the “Native” Voice
The Childcare Crisis & The Patriarchy of Social Reproduction
The Childcare Crisis & The Patriarchy of Social Reproduction – The Unpaid “Native” Labor of the Settler Economy
MAMDANI: Commercial Real Estate Vacancy & The Crisis of Capital
MAMDANI: Commercial Real Estate Vacancy & The Crisis of Capital – The Hollowing of the “Civilized” Center
The Hollowing Out of Small Businesses
The Hollowing Out of Small Businesses – The Clearing of the “Native” Commercial Landscape
MAMDANI: Public Bathroom Shortage: The Criminalization of Biological Need
MAMDANI: Public Bathroom Shortage: The Criminalization of Biological Need – Privatizing the Most Basic Human Function
The Battle over Bike Lanes
The Battle over Bike Lanes – Street Space as a Contested Colonial Frontier
The Exploitation of Incarcerated Labor
The Exploitation of Incarcerated Labor – The Prison as a Plantation
MAMDANI: Struggling Retail Sector: The Corporate Clearing of the “Native” Marketplace
MAMDANI: Struggling Retail Sector: The Corporate Clearing of the “Native” Marketplace – From Community Commerce to Alienated Consumption
MAMDANI: The Fight for a Truly Public University
MAMDANI: The Fight for a Truly Public University – Reclaiming CUNY as a Decolonized Institution
MAMDANI: The Fight for Water Justice
MAMDANI: The Fight for Water Justice – The Colonial Administration of a Life Source
The Opioid Epidemic & The Geography of Despair
The Opioid Epidemic & The Geography of Despair – Pharmaceutical Capital and the Somatic of Colonial Violence
MAMDANI: Food Insecurity: The Managed Scarcity of the Settler State
MAMDANI: Food Insecurity: The Managed Scarcity of the Settler State – Charity vs. the Right to Food
MAMDANI: The Failure of Recycling
MAMDANI: The Failure of Recycling – The Performance of “Civilized” Ecology
Mamdani’s Rent Freeze
Mamdani’s Rent Freeze Represents Class Warfare Against Extractive Capital New York City’s landlord class faces an existential threat not because housing policy has shifted, but because the fundamental relationship between…
MAMDANI: The Battle over Community Gardens
MAMDANI: The Battle over Community Gardens – Cultivating Decolonized Space in the Concrete Jungle
MAMDANI: Zoning & Land Use Battles: The Ritual of Colonial Consent
MAMDANI: Zoning & Land Use Battles: The Ritual of Colonial Consent – ULURP as a Theater of Participation
MAMDANI: The Battle over Public Libraries
MAMDANI: The Battle over Public Libraries – The Last Truly Democratic Space Under Siege
MAMDANI: Childhood Lead Poisoning: The Intergenerational Somatic Violence of the State
MAMDANI: Childhood Lead Poisoning: The Intergenerational Somatic Violence of the State – Poisoning the “Native” Future
MAMDANI: The Affordable Housing Crisis & The Bifurcated City
MAMDANI: The Affordable Housing Crisis & The Bifurcated City – Land as a Tool of Colonial Control and Displacement
The Struggle over Zoning (ULURP)
The Struggle over Zoning (ULURP) – The Ritual of Colonial Consent