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Alex Stoner

Bringing Authoritarianism Back In: Reification, Latent Prejudice, and Economic Threat

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Introduction During the run up to the 2010 mid-term elections in the United States, the NAACP published a controversial report on “Tea Party Nationalism,” documenting what was perceived as racist elements within the emergent conservative grassroots organization.[1]  The NAACP’s report became a lightning rod against which supporters and critics of the Tea Party vented their…

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If Climate “Changes Everything”, Why Does So Much Remain the Same?

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Introduction Unlike #occupy and anti-austerity politics, the movement organized around the demand for “system change, not climate change”—the climate justice movement—has only continued to grow. For many, most prominently the Canadian author Naomi Klein in her new book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate, this development places climate justice at the center of attempts…

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