Michael Gorup
Biographic Data
| ID | 3876426 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Gorup |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Gorup |
| SIGNATURE | GORUP M |
| AFFILIATIONS | New College of Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3701-8186 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Abolishing structural domination
What does it take to abolish structural domination? If domination is structural, then it can only be eliminated by the transformation or abolition of structures. For this to happen, agents advantaged by existing structures will often have to be brought under a form of power that lays beyond their control. Defeating domination therefore seems to require the embrace of dominating power. I call this dilemma the double bind of emancipation . To illus…
Not Subjects of the Market, but Subject to the Market
This essay draws political theory into dialogue with recent work in economic history and the history of capitalism to develop an account of the unique injustice produced by capitalist slavery in the antebellum United States. Prevailing approaches to thinking about slavery in political theory tend to disembed it from its broader socioeconomic context, which has led theorists to overlook some of the distinctive horrors associated with capitalist sl…
Populism, political organization, and the paradox of popular agency
The Strange Fruit of the Tree of Liberty
Lynch mobs regularly called on the language of popular sovereignty in their efforts to authorize lynchings, arguing that, as representatives of the people, they retained the right to wield public violence against persons they deemed beyond the protections of due process. Despite political theorists’ renewed interest in popular sovereignty, scholars have not accounted for this sordid history in their genealogies of modern democracy and popular con…
Empire of the People
Subverting the American Paradox
What role might the Declaration of Independence play in the struggle for racial justice in the United States? Dominant accounts suggest the Declaration’s principles have served as a wellspring for increasingly expanding rights claims, enabling progress in American history. However, critics allege that this redemptive view reinforces an exceptionalist national identity, disavows race’s constitutive role in ordering the polity, and circumscribes th…
The Strange Fruit of the Tree of Liberty
Lynch mobs regularly called on the language of popular sovereignty in their efforts to authorize lynchings, arguing that, as representatives of the people, they retained the right to wield public violence against persons they deemed beyond the protections of due process. Despite political theorists’ renewed interest in popular sovereignty, scholars have not accounted for this sordid history in their genealogies of modern democracy and popular con…
Not Subjects of the Market, but Subject to the Market
This essay draws political theory into dialogue with recent work in economic history and the history of capitalism to develop an account of the unique injustice produced by capitalist slavery in the antebellum United States. Prevailing approaches to thinking about slavery in political theory tend to disembed it from its broader socioeconomic context, which has led theorists to overlook some of the distinctive horrors associated with capitalist sl…
Empire of the People
Populism, political organization, and the paradox of popular agency
Subverting the American Paradox
What role might the Declaration of Independence play in the struggle for racial justice in the United States? Dominant accounts suggest the Declaration’s principles have served as a wellspring for increasingly expanding rights claims, enabling progress in American history. However, critics allege that this redemptive view reinforces an exceptionalist national identity, disavows race’s constitutive role in ordering the polity, and circumscribes th…
Empire of the People
The Strange Fruit of the Tree of Liberty
Lynch mobs regularly called on the language of popular sovereignty in their efforts to authorize lynchings, arguing that, as representatives of the people, they retained the right to wield public violence against persons they deemed beyond the protections of due process. Despite political theorists’ renewed interest in popular sovereignty, scholars have not accounted for this sordid history in their genealogies of modern democracy and popular con…
Populism, political organization, and the paradox of popular agency
Not Subjects of the Market, but Subject to the Market
This essay draws political theory into dialogue with recent work in economic history and the history of capitalism to develop an account of the unique injustice produced by capitalist slavery in the antebellum United States. Prevailing approaches to thinking about slavery in political theory tend to disembed it from its broader socioeconomic context, which has led theorists to overlook some of the distinctive horrors associated with capitalist sl…
Abolishing structural domination
What does it take to abolish structural domination? If domination is structural, then it can only be eliminated by the transformation or abolition of structures. For this to happen, agents advantaged by existing structures will often have to be brought under a form of power that lays beyond their control. Defeating domination therefore seems to require the embrace of dominating power. I call this dilemma the double bind of emancipation . To illus…
Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Political economy (3 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (2 works) · Democracy (2 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (2 works) · Polity (2 works)