Last month, I posted the letter that Joan Tronto wrote to the American Political Science Association (APSA) in which she declined the invitation to present a Benjamin Lippincott lecture, as recipient of the Benjamin Lippincott award. In the letter, that is, Tronto eloquently explains that she refuses to accept the award at the conference because […]
Letter to Leadership of American Political Science Association (APSA) from Joan Tronto
From Robert Nichols via Facebook: “At the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association this year, my former colleague Joan Tronto was scheduled to receive the Benjamin Lippincott Award in recognition of the tremendous impact and importance of her work “Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care”. The APSA has decided, […]
Solidarity with CUPE and Other Unions
BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY positions itself in SOLIDARITY with CUPE education workers and all other unions and workers in Canada who are under attack from neoliberal governments that use legislative tactics like the bill that the Doug Ford Government of Ontario passed on Thursday. The passage of Bill 28 is a violation of the most fundamental rights […]
MAP on the U.S. NLRB Proposed Rule on the Status of Graduate Student Workers
Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) is helping to spread the word about the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) proposed rule that would overturn the 2016 Columbia decision, which held that students at private universities counted as workers for the purpose of the NLRA and were thus entitled to collective bargaining rights. In solidarity with graduate students that this rule would affect, […]
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