Craig Borowiak
Biographic Data
| ID | 270645 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Craig Borowiak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Craig |
| FAMILY NAME | Borowiak |
| SIGNATURE | BOROWIAK C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Haverford College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7985-2406 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Response to Jason Spicer’s Review of Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation
presumed to serve low-income households, but the extent of food provision is unclear.Some gardens might be central to household food security, while others contribute little.Additionally, a worker co-op with 2,000 distributed workers is treated similarly to a housing co-op with 2,000 single-site members.These data issues collectively could obscure heterogeneity within the "edge zone" and "bulwark" patterns in meaningful ways.While the authors ack…
Algorithm Ethics: Interrogating Incentives in the Age of Uber
In January 2020, a controversial new statute, Assembly Bill 5 (AB5), went into effect in California. The new law targeted Uber, Lyft, and other so-called “gig economy” companies that rely heavily o
The Place of Common Bond: Can Credit Unions Make Place for Solidarity Economy
About 6,000 financial cooperatives, called credit unions, with more than 103 million members manage over $1 trillion in collective assets in the United States but are largely invisible and seen as inferior to private banks. In contrast to banks that generate profit for outside investors and do not give voice to customers, these not-for-profit institutions have a democratic governance structure and a mission to provide good services to their membe…
Taxi co-ops versus Uber: Struggles for workplace democracy in the sharing economy
Transportation network companies (TNCs) such as Uber and Lyft have drawn scrutiny for the way they have upended urban transportation systems and heightened the precarity of taxi drivers. Less attention has been paid to their implications for democratic workplaces. This article provides a comparative study of Uber and Lyft's impacts on taxi worker cooperatives in three cities: Philadelphia, Denver, and Austin. Drawing on interviews with drivers, r…
Poverty in Transit: Uber, Taxi Coops, and the Struggle over Philadelphia's Transportation Economy
This article examines how ride‐hailing companies like Uber have disrupted not only the mainstream taxi industry but also progressive efforts to remedy that industry's shortcomings. The article focuses on Alliance Taxi Cooperative ( ATC ), a failed taxi worker cooperative in Philadelphia. ATC was deeply committed to economic democracy, living wages, and outreach to underserved communities. Its ambitions were nevertheless thwarted by regulatory obs…
Colonial Power and the Rule of Law's Tangled History: McBride's Mr. Mothercountry
Colonial Power and the Rule of Law's Tangled History:McBride's Mr. Mothercountry Craig Borowiak (bio) Keally McBride, Mr. Mothercountry: The Man Who Made the Rule of Law. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978–0–19–025297–7. $39.95 Few political ideals are as loaded with a history of promise and betrayal as the rule of law. In principle, the rule of law is meant to limit elite power and uphold accountability for power's abuses. It is presented as a s…
Navigating the Fault Lines: Race and Class in Philadelphia's Solidarity Economy
In debates over post‐capitalist politics, growing attention has been paid to the solidarity economy (SE), a framework that draws together diverse practices ranging from co‐ops to community gardens. Despite proponents’ commitment to inclusion, racial and class divides suffuse the SE movement. Using qualitative fieldwork and an original SE dataset, this article examines the geospatial composition of the SE within the segregated geography of Philade…
Commoning and the politics of solidarity: Transformational responses to poverty
Troubled Waters: Tracing Globalization and Waste in the Delaware River
In spring 2014, an interdisciplinary media project titled “Troubled Waters: Tracing Waste in the Delaware River” was organized at Haverford College. This project brought together more than 50 students from four courses comprising introductory political science, chemistry, and documentary film students, as well as a community media artist and community partners. The aim was to explore the causes, impacts, and meanings of different types of waste t…
Captives of sovereignty
Political Theory in the Liberal Arts: How It’s Different and Why It’s Not All the Same
This article addresses the question of how political theory within the liberal arts differs from political theory done elsewhere. It frames the discussion in terms of both the existential crisis of political theory within the political science discipline and the financial and identity crises of liberal arts education within the broader higher education environment. The article then identifies two major factors—the small size and the prevalence of…
Disorienting Cosmopolitanism: Democratic Accountability and the Politics of Disruption
Engaging Emancipatory Social Science and Social Theory: A Symposium on Erik Olin Wright's Envisioning Real Utopias
Thad Williamson University of Richmond, USA Politics is frequently described as the art of the possible, but political science often takes the form of trying to understand, categorize, and explain
Scaling up Utopias: E.O. Wright and the Search for Economic Alternatives
Crisis has a way of opening new horizons. Such is the case with the current world economic crisis. Out of the tumult of economic hardship and insecurity, a great need for economic alternatives has
The World Tribunal on Iraq: Citizens' Tribunals and the Struggle for Accountability
In the wake of the 2003 intervention and occupation of Iraq, a coalition of activists from around the world initiated an international citizens' tribunal to investigate possible crimes perpetrated against the people of Iraq and against international law. Designed to fill a void where existing legal institutions had fallen short, these hearings were not meant to be colorful acts of protest but rather to provide rigorous public assessments of the p…
Accountability Debates: The Federalists, The Anti-Federalists, and Democratic Deficits
Motivated by an interest in contemporary debates over global governance, this essay examines competing visions of accountability expressed in the U.S. ratification debates. Whereas the Federalists believed accountability and good governance would be best realized if citizens are kept at a distance from government, the Anti-Federalists believed republican accountability depends upon the active participation of diverse citizens, a type of participa…
Farmers' Rights: Intellectual Property Regimes and the Struggle over Seeds
This article analyzes 'farmers' rights' as a strategy of resistance against the perceived inequities of intellectual property rights regimes for plant varieties. As commercial models of intellectual property have made their way into agriculture, farmers' traditional seed-saving practices have been increasingly delegitimized. In response, farmers have adopted the language of farmers' rights to demand greater material recognition of their contribut…
Against Ecofeminism: Agrarian Populism and the Splintered Subject in Rural India
Over the last decade, protests in India against multinational businesses and international institutions have emerged as a significantly new form of social movement in which local agrarian interests are articulated through and against both national and transnational idioms. Targets have included businesses such as Monsanto, Gargill, Rhone-Poulenc Agro, and the Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise and institutions such as the World Trade Organization, …
Farmers' Rights: Intellectual Property Regimes and the Struggle over Seeds
This article analyzes 'farmers' rights' as a strategy of resistance against the perceived inequities of intellectual property rights regimes for plant varieties. As commercial models of intellectual property have made their way into agriculture, farmers' traditional seed-saving practices have been increasingly delegitimized. In response, farmers have adopted the language of farmers' rights to demand greater material recognition of their contribut…
Commoning and the politics of solidarity: Transformational responses to poverty
Navigating the Fault Lines: Race and Class in Philadelphia's Solidarity Economy
In debates over post‐capitalist politics, growing attention has been paid to the solidarity economy (SE), a framework that draws together diverse practices ranging from co‐ops to community gardens. Despite proponents’ commitment to inclusion, racial and class divides suffuse the SE movement. Using qualitative fieldwork and an original SE dataset, this article examines the geospatial composition of the SE within the segregated geography of Philade…
The World Tribunal on Iraq: Citizens' Tribunals and the Struggle for Accountability
In the wake of the 2003 intervention and occupation of Iraq, a coalition of activists from around the world initiated an international citizens' tribunal to investigate possible crimes perpetrated against the people of Iraq and against international law. Designed to fill a void where existing legal institutions had fallen short, these hearings were not meant to be colorful acts of protest but rather to provide rigorous public assessments of the p…
Accountability Debates: The Federalists, The Anti-Federalists, and Democratic Deficits
Motivated by an interest in contemporary debates over global governance, this essay examines competing visions of accountability expressed in the U.S. ratification debates. Whereas the Federalists believed accountability and good governance would be best realized if citizens are kept at a distance from government, the Anti-Federalists believed republican accountability depends upon the active participation of diverse citizens, a type of participa…
Poverty in Transit: Uber, Taxi Coops, and the Struggle over Philadelphia's Transportation Economy
This article examines how ride‐hailing companies like Uber have disrupted not only the mainstream taxi industry but also progressive efforts to remedy that industry's shortcomings. The article focuses on Alliance Taxi Cooperative ( ATC ), a failed taxi worker cooperative in Philadelphia. ATC was deeply committed to economic democracy, living wages, and outreach to underserved communities. Its ambitions were nevertheless thwarted by regulatory obs…
Taxi co-ops versus Uber: Struggles for workplace democracy in the sharing economy
Transportation network companies (TNCs) such as Uber and Lyft have drawn scrutiny for the way they have upended urban transportation systems and heightened the precarity of taxi drivers. Less attention has been paid to their implications for democratic workplaces. This article provides a comparative study of Uber and Lyft's impacts on taxi worker cooperatives in three cities: Philadelphia, Denver, and Austin. Drawing on interviews with drivers, r…
Disorienting Cosmopolitanism: Democratic Accountability and the Politics of Disruption
Scaling up Utopias: E.O. Wright and the Search for Economic Alternatives
Crisis has a way of opening new horizons. Such is the case with the current world economic crisis. Out of the tumult of economic hardship and insecurity, a great need for economic alternatives has
Against Ecofeminism: Agrarian Populism and the Splintered Subject in Rural India
Over the last decade, protests in India against multinational businesses and international institutions have emerged as a significantly new form of social movement in which local agrarian interests are articulated through and against both national and transnational idioms. Targets have included businesses such as Monsanto, Gargill, Rhone-Poulenc Agro, and the Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise and institutions such as the World Trade Organization, …
The Place of Common Bond: Can Credit Unions Make Place for Solidarity Economy
About 6,000 financial cooperatives, called credit unions, with more than 103 million members manage over $1 trillion in collective assets in the United States but are largely invisible and seen as inferior to private banks. In contrast to banks that generate profit for outside investors and do not give voice to customers, these not-for-profit institutions have a democratic governance structure and a mission to provide good services to their membe…
Against Ecofeminism: Agrarian Populism and the Splintered Subject in Rural India
Over the last decade, protests in India against multinational businesses and international institutions have emerged as a significantly new form of social movement in which local agrarian interests are articulated through and against both national and transnational idioms. Targets have included businesses such as Monsanto, Gargill, Rhone-Poulenc Agro, and the Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise and institutions such as the World Trade Organization, …
Farmers' Rights: Intellectual Property Regimes and the Struggle over Seeds
This article analyzes 'farmers' rights' as a strategy of resistance against the perceived inequities of intellectual property rights regimes for plant varieties. As commercial models of intellectual property have made their way into agriculture, farmers' traditional seed-saving practices have been increasingly delegitimized. In response, farmers have adopted the language of farmers' rights to demand greater material recognition of their contribut…
Accountability Debates: The Federalists, The Anti-Federalists, and Democratic Deficits
Motivated by an interest in contemporary debates over global governance, this essay examines competing visions of accountability expressed in the U.S. ratification debates. Whereas the Federalists believed accountability and good governance would be best realized if citizens are kept at a distance from government, the Anti-Federalists believed republican accountability depends upon the active participation of diverse citizens, a type of participa…
The World Tribunal on Iraq: Citizens' Tribunals and the Struggle for Accountability
In the wake of the 2003 intervention and occupation of Iraq, a coalition of activists from around the world initiated an international citizens' tribunal to investigate possible crimes perpetrated against the people of Iraq and against international law. Designed to fill a void where existing legal institutions had fallen short, these hearings were not meant to be colorful acts of protest but rather to provide rigorous public assessments of the p…
Engaging Emancipatory Social Science and Social Theory: A Symposium on Erik Olin Wright's Envisioning Real Utopias
Thad Williamson University of Richmond, USA Politics is frequently described as the art of the possible, but political science often takes the form of trying to understand, categorize, and explain
Scaling up Utopias: E.O. Wright and the Search for Economic Alternatives
Crisis has a way of opening new horizons. Such is the case with the current world economic crisis. Out of the tumult of economic hardship and insecurity, a great need for economic alternatives has
Disorienting Cosmopolitanism: Democratic Accountability and the Politics of Disruption
Political Theory in the Liberal Arts: How It’s Different and Why It’s Not All the Same
This article addresses the question of how political theory within the liberal arts differs from political theory done elsewhere. It frames the discussion in terms of both the existential crisis of political theory within the political science discipline and the financial and identity crises of liberal arts education within the broader higher education environment. The article then identifies two major factors—the small size and the prevalence of…
Captives of sovereignty
Troubled Waters: Tracing Globalization and Waste in the Delaware River
In spring 2014, an interdisciplinary media project titled “Troubled Waters: Tracing Waste in the Delaware River” was organized at Haverford College. This project brought together more than 50 students from four courses comprising introductory political science, chemistry, and documentary film students, as well as a community media artist and community partners. The aim was to explore the causes, impacts, and meanings of different types of waste t…
Colonial Power and the Rule of Law's Tangled History: McBride's Mr. Mothercountry
Colonial Power and the Rule of Law's Tangled History:McBride's Mr. Mothercountry Craig Borowiak (bio) Keally McBride, Mr. Mothercountry: The Man Who Made the Rule of Law. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978–0–19–025297–7. $39.95 Few political ideals are as loaded with a history of promise and betrayal as the rule of law. In principle, the rule of law is meant to limit elite power and uphold accountability for power's abuses. It is presented as a s…
Navigating the Fault Lines: Race and Class in Philadelphia's Solidarity Economy
In debates over post‐capitalist politics, growing attention has been paid to the solidarity economy (SE), a framework that draws together diverse practices ranging from co‐ops to community gardens. Despite proponents’ commitment to inclusion, racial and class divides suffuse the SE movement. Using qualitative fieldwork and an original SE dataset, this article examines the geospatial composition of the SE within the segregated geography of Philade…
Commoning and the politics of solidarity: Transformational responses to poverty
Taxi co-ops versus Uber: Struggles for workplace democracy in the sharing economy
Transportation network companies (TNCs) such as Uber and Lyft have drawn scrutiny for the way they have upended urban transportation systems and heightened the precarity of taxi drivers. Less attention has been paid to their implications for democratic workplaces. This article provides a comparative study of Uber and Lyft's impacts on taxi worker cooperatives in three cities: Philadelphia, Denver, and Austin. Drawing on interviews with drivers, r…
Poverty in Transit: Uber, Taxi Coops, and the Struggle over Philadelphia's Transportation Economy
This article examines how ride‐hailing companies like Uber have disrupted not only the mainstream taxi industry but also progressive efforts to remedy that industry's shortcomings. The article focuses on Alliance Taxi Cooperative ( ATC ), a failed taxi worker cooperative in Philadelphia. ATC was deeply committed to economic democracy, living wages, and outreach to underserved communities. Its ambitions were nevertheless thwarted by regulatory obs…
The Place of Common Bond: Can Credit Unions Make Place for Solidarity Economy
About 6,000 financial cooperatives, called credit unions, with more than 103 million members manage over $1 trillion in collective assets in the United States but are largely invisible and seen as inferior to private banks. In contrast to banks that generate profit for outside investors and do not give voice to customers, these not-for-profit institutions have a democratic governance structure and a mission to provide good services to their membe…
Algorithm Ethics: Interrogating Incentives in the Age of Uber
In January 2020, a controversial new statute, Assembly Bill 5 (AB5), went into effect in California. The new law targeted Uber, Lyft, and other so-called “gig economy” companies that rely heavily o
Response to Jason Spicer’s Review of Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation
presumed to serve low-income households, but the extent of food provision is unclear.Some gardens might be central to household food security, while others contribute little.Additionally, a worker co-op with 2,000 distributed workers is treated similarly to a housing co-op with 2,000 single-site members.These data issues collectively could obscure heterogeneity within the "edge zone" and "bulwark" patterns in meaningful ways.While the authors ack…
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