Introduction - Inés Valdez: Transnational Cosmopolitanism: Kant, Du Bois, and Justice as a Political Craft. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. 210.)

Valdez, Inés

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“…These scholars note that the Westphalian frame and its attendant view of decolonization as the incorporation of newly independent states to an international society leave much to be desired. This model overlooks projects of sovereignty that were decidedly anti-imperial, yet not necessarily national or statist (Goswami 2012, 1461–62; Mantena 2016, 300–1; Valdez 2019b). It also leaves out the radical break in the thought of postcolonial statesmen with the Eurocentric society of states (Getachew 2019, 12).…”

Section: Popular Sovereignty Self-determination and Empirementioning

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Empire, Popular Sovereignty, and the Problem of Self-and-Other-Determination

Valdez¹

2022

Perspect. polit.

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This article develops W. E. B. Du Bois’s notion of democratic despotism to illustrate the entanglement of popular sovereignty and empire through an excessive form of western self-determination and theorizes how features of this formation remain today. Democratic despotism implies that, in western democracies at the turn of the twentieth century, popular sovereignty was an impulse to partake of the wealth and resources obtained by empire. Western democracies issued a claim to determine themselves (democratically) and others (despotically), in what I call “self-and-other-determination.” I frame the question of imperial democracy within the literature on empire and racial capitalism and the writings of Du Bois, Frantz Fanon, and Saidiya Hartman to conceptualize how racial affective attachments allow citizens past and present to restrict democratic concern to a limited community, whose wealth relies on the imperial exploitation of racialized others. I discuss the absence of these questions in the literature on self-determination and reflect on the implications of my framework for the contemporary rise of right-wing populism.

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Empire, Popular Sovereignty, and the Problem of Self-and-Other-Determination

Valdez¹

2022

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“…See also Ypi (2014). Valdez notes that Kant’s reasoning here parallels that for our indirect duties to animals (2019, 48–49).…”

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“…Thus, the ‘point of view of moral judgment’ might not refer to someone passing judgment on the enslavers for slavery , but for the pernicious consequences of slavery for Europe . See Valdez (2019, 45). My thanks for an anonymous reviewer for helping me to see the problems with my earlier interpretation of this passage.…”

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At the bar of conscience: A Kantian argument for slavery reparations

Fisette

2021

Philosophy & Social Criticism

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Arguments for slavery reparations have fallen out of favour even as reparations for other forms of racial injustice are taken more seriously. This retreat is unsurprising, as arguments for slavery reparations often rely on two normatively irregular claims: that reparations are owed to the dead (as opposed to, say, their living heirs) and that the present generation inherits an as yet unrequited guilt from past generations. Outside of some strands of Black thought and activism on slavery reparations, these claims are widely rejected. I develop an argument for slavery reparations around those foundational claims by adopting the normative framework of Immanuel Kant. On what I call the Basic Argument for slavery reparations, the application of Kant’s retributivist theory of punishment to slavery justifies reparations as a kind of proportional punishment for slavery. I also show that Kant’s philosophy offers reparations theorists resources to overcome several contemporary objections to slavery reparations.

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“…Although there are cosmopolitan projects which are positioned decidedly outside the liberal tradition (e.g. Celikates 2019; Harvey, 2009; Valdez, 2019), these critics do not make such an analytical distinction, suggesting that the aspiration of global justice itself is problematic and shares the pathologies of globalist thinking with the liberal projects that they oppose. They argue that cosmopolitan thinking, by assuming “sameness” across borders, flattens differences and hence tends to be imperialist, forcing an image of the self on the world at large.…”

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False friends: Leftist nationalism and the project of transnational solidarity

Anderl

2022

Journal of International Political Theory

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A growing number of left-wing scholars criticize practices of transnational solidarity. Pointing to the cooptation of “globalism” by neoliberal capitalism, these scholars utilize this critique to advance leftwing nationalism. In this article, I reconstruct symptomatic texts of this genre and identify the critique of (liberal) cosmopolitanism as the common denominator in their calls for nationalizing the Left. As a consequence of their opposition to cosmopolitanism, these authors reject freedom of movement or global justice activism. In order to examine whether the project of transnational solidarity is affected by this critique, I reconstruct its justifications in Critical Theory and postcolonial-feminist theory. Hauke Brunkhorst and Chandra Mohanty exemplarily theorize transnational solidarity in different ways, but each based on a substantial critique of liberal cosmopolitanism. By that, I show that a principled return to nationalism derived from a critique of cosmopolitanism is informed by coincidental evidence that rejects practices of transnational solidarity because of their alleged embeddedness in cosmopolitan reason. Drawing on La Via Campesina, I illustrate principles of a transnational solidarity project that is not justified with liberal cosmopolitan ideas. Their experiences challenge the nationalist/statist critique while not falling back into naïve and/or neoliberal cosmopolitanism.

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Introduction - Inés Valdez: Transnational Cosmopolitanism: Kant, Du Bois, and Justice as a Political Craft. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. 210.)

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Empire, Popular Sovereignty, and the Problem of Self-and-Other-Determination

Empire, Popular Sovereignty, and the Problem of Self-and-Other-Determination

At the bar of conscience: A Kantian argument for slavery reparations

False friends: Leftist nationalism and the project of transnational solidarity

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