MAMDANI: Home Rule vs. State Control: The Metropolitan vs. The Settler Sovereign
MAMDANI: Home Rule vs. State Control: The Metropolitan vs. The Settler Sovereign – The Limits of Local Power in a Colonial Structure
Category: Policy
MAMDANI: The Legacy of Redlining
MAMDANI: The Legacy of Redlining – The Historical Architecture of the Bifurcated City
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
The Exploitation of Incarcerated Labor
The Exploitation of Incarcerated Labor – The Prison as a Plantation
MAMDANI: Informal Economy: The Shadow of the Bifurcated State
MAMDANI: Informal Economy: The Shadow of the Bifurcated State – Survival Outside the “Civilized” Legal Frame
MAMDANI: Aging School Buildings: The Somatic Violence of Neglect
MAMDANI: Aging School Buildings: The Somatic Violence of Neglect – Poisoning the “Native” Child’s Environment
MAMDANI: The Struggle for Park Equity
MAMDANI: The Struggle for Park Equity – The Bifurcated Geography of Recreation and Green
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: Affordable Housing Crisis: The Colonial Logic of Land
MAMDANI: Affordable Housing Crisis: The Colonial Logic of Land – Displacement as Accumulation by Dispossession
MAMDANI: Veteran Homelessness: The Abandoned Soldier of the Empire
MAMDANI: Veteran Homelessness: The Abandoned Soldier of the Empire – The “Native” Mercenary Discarded by the Settler State
The Student Debt Crisis & The Indentured “Native”
The Student Debt Crisis & The Indentured “Native” – Debt as a Mechanism of Control and Discipline
MAMDANI: Rising Insurance Premiums: Climate Risk and the Abandonment of the “Native”
MAMDANI: Rising Insurance Premiums: Climate Risk and the Abandonment of the “Native” – The Actuarial Logic of the Bifurcated State
MAMDANI: Air Pollution: The Somatic Tax on the “Native” Lung
MAMDANI: Air Pollution: The Somatic Tax on the “Native” Lung – The Political Economy of Breath
The Struggle over Zoning (ULURP)
The Struggle over Zoning (ULURP) – The Ritual of Colonial Consent
The Weaponization of “Tough on Crime” Rhetoric
The Weaponization of “Tough on Crime” Rhetoric – Manufacturing the “Savage” to Justify Despotism
MAMDANI: The Crisis of Political Apathy
MAMDANI: The Crisis of Political Apathy – The Manufactured Consent of the Managed “Native”
MAMDANI: The Crisis of Traffic Violence
MAMDANI: The Crisis of Traffic Violence – The Sacrifice of the “Native” Body to the Automobile
We ARE Marxists!
Why Hide? It’s Time to Stop Pretending We’re Not Marxists The Euphemism Era Is Over For generations, American leftists played linguistic hide-and-seek with our actual politics. We called ourselves “progressives”…
MAMDANI: Mayoral Accountability: The Strong Mayor as Colonial Governor
MAMDANI: Mayoral Accountability: The Strong Mayor as Colonial Governor – The Concentration of Power in the Bifurcated State
MAMDANI: The NYPD as a Colonial Police Force
MAMDANI: The NYPD as a Colonial Police Force – Governing the “Natives” Through Force and Custom
The Crisis of Rat Infestation
The Crisis of Rat Infestation – The Somatic Unraveling of the Colonial City
MAMDANI: The Non-Profit Industrial Complex
MAMDANI: The Non-Profit Industrial Complex – The NGO as a Colonial Administrator
MAMDANI: The Crisis of Asbestos & Toxins in Schools
MAMDANI: The Crisis of Asbestos & Toxins in Schools – Somatic Violence Against the “Native” Child
MAMDANI: The Exploitation of Incarcerated Labor
MAMDANI: The Exploitation of Incarcerated Labor – The Prison as a Plantation
The Battle over Community Gardens
The Battle over Community Gardens – Cultivating Decolonized Space in the Concrete Jungle
MAMDANI: The Erasure of Tenants’ Rights
MAMDANI: The Erasure of Tenants’ Rights – The Customary Law of the Landlord Class
The Crisis of Police Brutality
The Crisis of Police Brutality – The Inevitable Violence of the Colonial Enforcer
MAMDANI: Achievement Gap in Schools: The Manufactured Outcome of a Colonial System
MAMDANI: Achievement Gap in Schools: The Manufactured Outcome of a Colonial System – Systemic Design for “Native” Failure
The Erasure of Working-Class History
The Erasure of Working-Class History – Amnesia as a Tool of Colonial Control