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On Monday, Jeena Shah explained how anticolonial resistance movements of the 1960s and ’70s reconciled calls for BDS against Israel and other colonial powers with their condemnation of economic sanctions against the Global South. As she writes, “the right of self-determination went beyond merely seeking political independence from direct colonial rule; it also aimed to safeguard that independence from other forms of imperial domination… Sanctions, on this view, should not be seen as a stable, immutable tool, but as protean, operating differently depending on the political economic context.”
On Tuesday, Marshall Steinbaum discussed Zak Podmore’s new book, Life After Dead Pool, which focuses on the inevitable loss of Lake Powell in coming decades. Unlike most climate and environmental books, however, Podmore’s story is one of optimism and opportunity. As Steinbaum writes, “As the water level drops, we have a chance to restore both the habitat of Glen Canyon and an earlier approach to public energy provision, when natural resources were shielded from capitalist exploitation and harnessed for the public good.” Come for climate optimism, stay for the jeremiad against the Biden administration’s energy policy.
And on Thursday, we continued our from the vault series, highlighting some of our favorite posts on LPE and history. Don’t miss these classics from K-Sue Park, Luke Herrine, Gabriel Winant, Johanna Fernández, Aziz Rana, Vanessa Ogle, Evelyn Atkinson, William Forbath and Joseph Fishkin, Claire Dunning, Beryle Satter, and Uʻilani Tanigawa Lum and Kaulu Luʻuwai.
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Cool Job(s) Alert: The Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator has several open positions to work on cutting-edge issues of political economy: Director of Public Options & Governance; Director of Competition & Regulatory Policy; Director of AI & Technology Policy; Senior Policy Analyst; Policy Analyst; Fellow in Networks, Platforms & Utilities; and Legal Fellow.
On the Dig, Aslı Bâli and Aziz Rana discuss the history of left-wing internationalism.
The Roosevelt Institute released a hot new report, Planning to Build Faster: A Solar Energy Case Study.
Cool new paper alert: Gabriel Winant on Class Analysis and Class Formation after Deindustrialisation.
In the Boston Review, Simon Torracinta reviews The Rise and Fall of Swedish Social Democracy.
And in the New Inquiry, Jake Romm interviews Laleh Khalili about her new book, The Corporeal Life of Seafaring.
