Alena Wolflink
Biographic Data
| ID | 938891 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alena Wolflink |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alena |
| FAMILY NAME | Wolflink |
| SIGNATURE | WOLFLINK A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Denver |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4450-3657 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Undercover(ture) Agents
In the 1800s, British and American legislatures began to pass statutes that revised the legal doctrine of coverture, under which women lost most economic and legal rights after marriage. Nineteenth-century legal cases in England and the United States concerning married women’s credit, property, and labor during coverture’s sunset illustrate the trade-offs inherent in attaining legal autonomy through monetization. Judicial constructions of married…
A phenomenology of abuse
Value Claims and Global Democratic Theory
Black Lives Matter and the Politics of Value
This article draws out the politics of value by exploring the language used by the Black Lives Matter movement. It argues that this movement’s value claims, evident in the language of “mattering,” mobilize tensions between material and aspirational systems of human interdependence. To this end, this article examines Patrisse Khan-Cullors’s When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (2018) as a text that articulates the political…
Practising democratic equality
This article tackles the problem of how to transcend affinities for hierarchy and in their place generate desires for equality. Drawing from Jacques Rancière’s (1991) paradoxical treatment of equality in his The Ignorant Schoolmaster as something that is verified by unequal subjects, I show that Rancière treats equality as something only possible in the context of a false authority, the teacher, encircling students in a political boundary out of …
Claiming Value
Theft is Property
What's the Matter with Value
This article proceeds from a perspective on value and valuation that is distinct from moral and economic discourses of value in that it conceives of value as primarily, and even paradigmatically, political. Drawing from the insights of Anna Julia Cooper's political-economic writings, this article argues that value and values, markets and morals, and the constellation of issues entangled in modern discourses of valuation all have the effect of dev…
Learning to globalise
This article interprets interview-based research to reveal an incongruity between coinciding discourses of the twenty-first-century global marketplace and aspirations to universal equality, both contained within the claim that American university students must study abroad to become ‘global citizens’. It argues that there are deep tensions between two very different images of what citizenship entails – one treats education as a zero-sum means tow…
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Learning to globalise
This article interprets interview-based research to reveal an incongruity between coinciding discourses of the twenty-first-century global marketplace and aspirations to universal equality, both contained within the claim that American university students must study abroad to become ‘global citizens’. It argues that there are deep tensions between two very different images of what citizenship entails – one treats education as a zero-sum means tow…
Theft is Property
What's the Matter with Value
This article proceeds from a perspective on value and valuation that is distinct from moral and economic discourses of value in that it conceives of value as primarily, and even paradigmatically, political. Drawing from the insights of Anna Julia Cooper's political-economic writings, this article argues that value and values, markets and morals, and the constellation of issues entangled in modern discourses of valuation all have the effect of dev…
Black Lives Matter and the Politics of Value
This article draws out the politics of value by exploring the language used by the Black Lives Matter movement. It argues that this movement’s value claims, evident in the language of “mattering,” mobilize tensions between material and aspirational systems of human interdependence. To this end, this article examines Patrisse Khan-Cullors’s When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (2018) as a text that articulates the political…
Practising democratic equality
This article tackles the problem of how to transcend affinities for hierarchy and in their place generate desires for equality. Drawing from Jacques Rancière’s (1991) paradoxical treatment of equality in his The Ignorant Schoolmaster as something that is verified by unequal subjects, I show that Rancière treats equality as something only possible in the context of a false authority, the teacher, encircling students in a political boundary out of …
Claiming Value
Value Claims and Global Democratic Theory
Undercover(ture) Agents
In the 1800s, British and American legislatures began to pass statutes that revised the legal doctrine of coverture, under which women lost most economic and legal rights after marriage. Nineteenth-century legal cases in England and the United States concerning married women’s credit, property, and labor during coverture’s sunset illustrate the trade-offs inherent in attaining legal autonomy through monetization. Judicial constructions of married…
A phenomenology of abuse
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