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The Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center (BWRC) at New York City College of Technology (CUNY) is seeking a highly motivated and organized individual who can help advance the Center’s mission. In addition to its s […]
BWRC hosted its ninth annual conference, Living in Brooklyn: Housing along the Brooklyn Waterfront on April 12, 2019, at City Tech’s new academic complex. The conference this year focused on two of the greatest c […]
BWRC hosted its first Breakfast Talk of 2019 on March 15th. Last fall, the Brooklyn Navy Yard publicly released an ambitious Masterplan for the future development and growth of its 200 acre-plus campus. Adam […]
1. The BLM economic platform invokes a concept of democracy that is separate from capitalism. Does democracy have potential beyond capitalism, and/or as a strategy in anti-capitalist movements?
Regarding question 2 (economic proposals that the left can utilize), I think ideologically cohesive yet historically/geographically-specific plans are key. Focusing on the […]
I think it’s also important to bear in mind the political and cultural determinants that predicated bondage slavery during the earliest days of colonial settlement. Namely, that the English Civil War and a […]
How does thinking about social reproduction as a materialist question help to join together feminist, Marxist, and environmental justice politics? What are some examples of this kind of political action and what […]
BWRC hosted its first Breakfast Talk of the semester, “Visions for Newtown Creek,” on October 12th, 2018. Speakers representing the Newtown Creek Alliance and Riverkeeper outlined their comprehensive, com […]
I’d like to respond to the last question, concerning the relationship between corporate elites and the state. I think Prof. Harvey’s allusion to the NYC Fiscal Crisis in 1975 was extremely poignant, because it […]
In Capitalism, price functions as a representation of value, offering a material substitution for an abstract/immaterial concept. Part of the job of anticapitalists is to articulate the alternative forms of value […]
I believe that question three raises an important point, namely the importance of considering the three “distinct games” in their totality, as well as discretely. Could a successful counter-hegemonic strategy […]