Anna Tsing said, “we are mixed up in the projects that do us the most harm,” (p.29) an idea taken up by Chakrabarty in his account of the role of humans in climate crisis and his proposed reframing of ‘the planetary’. This week’s readings presented a challenge for me, tying…

With reflection on Ikenberry’s defense of liberal international order, I come to the conclusion that two of the core principles of liberalism are economic development and free market. Through a legal institutional analysis, DuBois, Anghie and Getachew critique the liberal international order while centering colonized peoples as protagonists in the…

Italo Calvino’s Imaginary Cities, in particular the segment on cities and memory, was unexpected reading for me — very poetic in form, and obviously centres around that conversation between Marco Polo and Kublai Kahn. There were a lot of really wonderful and thought-provoking lines which kept me up at night…

Roughly outlined, this dissertation project plans to conduct an analysis of transnational solidarity movements by examining current examples of global activism, the technologies being employed by these groups, and their potential impact on the international state system. My research seeks to respond to the question of whether, and how, transnational…