Politics of Futurity

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In this course, we explore approaches to political theory and practice that go beyond what Iris Young calls "the distributive paradigm" of both liberalism and 20th century socialisms and seek to understand what a 21st century paradigm that centers the politics of care might include. We will discuss how political horizons are constructed in popular discourse and political action; the structural relations of race, coloniality, and indigeneity and what it would take to change those relations; abolition democracy; the politics of gender; disability justice; and the political economy of degrowth. The purpose of the course is to explore ideas that might shape the politics of the 21st century (and beyond) as well as the political consequences and possibilities implied by their pursuit.