Inés Valdez
Biographic Data
| ID | 954713 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Inés Valdez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Inés |
| FAMILY NAME | Valdez |
| SIGNATURE | VALDEZ I |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8834-809X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 85 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Consumption, reproduction, and ecology/technology: Revisiting Democracy and Empire and anti-imperial popular sovereignty
In this response to critics, I address three categories of questions. A first set of questions relates to the role of class analysis in the book’s framework. A second set of questions probes my account of popular sovereignty as anachronistic or insufficiently attentive to emancipatory dimensions. Finally, critics are interested in the implications of the proposed account of imperial democracy and self-and-other determination for contemporary poli…
On the parochial neglect of the Marxist anticolonial critique of political economy
Jim Tully's “Deparochializing Political Theory and Beyond” provides an exemplar account of the modes of theoretical and dialogical engagement required for recovering non-Western thinkers and provincializing Western political thought. I argue that Tully's approach helps explain the provincialism of anticolonial political theory in matters of political economy even while it substantively fails to follow its own dictates. By provincialism I mean the…
Labor, nature, and the reproduction of capitalism: An exchange on subjection and emancipation
Tradition and Disruption in Latinx and Latin American Political Thought
This article presents Latinx political thought as a distinctive tradition in political theory that reworks central concepts in response to historical experiences of conquest, colonialism, migration, and transnational politics. In reconstructing this tradition, we argue that its problem space converges with US-based Latin American political thought. The article first traces a genealogy of Latinx political theory and then explores three realms of t…
The Politics (and Morality) of Interpretation: Transnationalism as a Distinct Account of the Global
W. E. B. Du Bois and transnational cosmopolitanism: A conversation
US Law and Filipino Resistance to Racial Capitalism: Review of Michael W. McCann with George I. Lovell Union by Law
US Law and Filipino Resistance to Racial CapitalismReview of Michael W. McCann with George I. Lovell Union by Law Inés Valdez (bio) Michael W. McCann with George I. Lovell. Union by Law: Filipino American Labor Activists, Rights Radicalism, and Racial Capitalism. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2020. 504 pp. $105 (hc). ISBN: 9780226679877. Union by Law is a wide-ranging study of twentieth-century Filipino labor activism and the changing legal …
Empire, Popular Sovereignty, and the Problem of Self-and-Other-Determination
This article develops W. E. B. Du Bois’s notion of democratic despotism to illustrate the entanglement of popular sovereignty and empire through an excessive form of western self-determination and theorizes how features of this formation remain today. Democratic despotism implies that, in western democracies at the turn of the twentieth century, popular sovereignty was an impulse to partake of the wealth and resources obtained by empire. Western …
Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and the Reproduction of Capitalism
Democracy and Empire theorizes the material basis of popular sovereignty via the Black radical tradition. Popular sovereignty contains an affective attachment to wealth, secured through collective agreements to dominate others, i.e., self-and-other-determination. Inés Valdez expands on racial capitalism by theorizing its Anglo-European-based popular politics, which authorize capital accumulation enabled by empire and legitimated by racial ideolog…
Toward a Narrow Cosmopolitanism: Kant’s Anthropology, Racialized Character and the Construction of Europe
This article explores the distinctions among European peoples’ character established in Kant’s anthropology and their connection with his politics. These aspects are neglected relative to the analysis of race between Europeans and non-Europeans, but Kant’s anthropological works portray the people of Mediterranean Europe as not capable of civilization because of the dominance of passion in their faculty of desire, which he ties to ‘Oriental’ influ…
Global justice and social conflict: The foundations of liberal order and international law
Cosmopolitanism Without National Consciousness is not Radical: Creolizing Gordon’s Fanon Through Du Bois
In this essay, I engage with the methodological contributions and original readings of Fanon and Rousseau contained in Jane Anna Gordon’s Creolizing Political Theory. I build upon one insight in particular––Gordon’s illuminating joint reading of Rousseau’s general will and Fanon’s national consciousness—in order to reflect on Fanon’s ambivalence about Pan-Africanism. In this task, I engage with W.E.B. Du Bois’s transnational thinking in order to …
Socialism and Empire: Labor Mobility, Racial Capitalism, and the Political Theory of Migration
This essay brings together political theories of empire and racial capitalism to clarify the entanglements between socialist and imperial discourse at the turn of the twentieth century. I show that white labor activists and intellectuals in the United States and the British settler colonies borrowed from imperial scripts to mark non-white workers as a threat. This discourse was thus both imperial and popular, because it absorbed the white working…
Law, Police Violence, and Race: Grounding and Embodying the State of Exception
This paper theorizes police violence by elucidating the relationship between racialized violence and law. We contrast Giorgio Agamben's generalized state of exception with Walter Benjamin's targeted and localized account, which we complement with Saidiya Hartman's work on periodization and affect. We argue that racialized police violence is constitutive of law because police routinely enact violence in racially targeted ways, and judicial practic…
Re-Reading Idris's Kant and Quṭb through an Excursus into the Cosmopolitan Implications of Barbary Coast Corsairs
Murad Idris's War for Peace is an incredible accomplishment. By examining and deconstructing accounts of peace from Plato to Quṭb, Idris offers a sobering perspective on the many meanings, manipula
Response to Alasia Nuti’s Review of Transnational Cosmopolitanism: Kant, Du Bois, and Justice as a Political Craft
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Reconceiving Immigration Politics: Walter Benjamin, Violence, and Labor
This article theorizes the circulation of violence in the realms of immigration and labor. Through Walter Benjamin, I conceptualize the relationship between racial violence and law, and note that although violence can support the authority of law, excessive violence makes law vulnerable to decay. This tension between authority and excess is eased by humanitarianism. I find clues for disrupting this circulation in Benjamin's twin notions of the re…
Transnational Cosmopolitanism: Kant, Du Bois, and Justice as a Political Craft
Based on the theoretical reconstruction of neglected post-WWI writings and political action of W. E. B. Du Bois, this volume offers a normative account of transnational cosmopolitanism. Pointing out the limitations of Kant's cosmopolitanism through a novel contextual account of Perpetual Peace, Transnational Cosmopolitanism shows how these limits remain in neo-Kantian scholarship. Inés Valdez's framework overcomes these limitations in a methodolo…
Association, Reciprocity, and Emancipation: A Transnational Account of the Politics of Global Justice
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Juxtaposition, Hemispheric Thought, and the Bounds of Political Theory: Juliet Hooker’s Theorizing Race in the Americas
Missing in action: Practice, Paralegality, and the Nature of Immigration Enforcement
U.S. immigration control is typically understood in terms of enforcement practices undertaken by federal officers guided by legislation and court decisions. While legislation and court opinions are important components of the immigration control apparatus, they do not adequately account for immigration control ‘on the ground.’ To explore this problem, we advance the concept of paralegality, the practices and operations that constitute a dynamic s…
It's Not about Race: Good Wars, Bad Wars, and the Origins of Kant's Anti-Colonialism
This article offers a new interpretation of Kant's cosmopolitanism and his anti-colonialism inToward Perpetual Peace. Kant's changing position has been the subject of extensive debates that have, however, not recognized the central place of colonialism in the political, economic, and military debates in Europe in Kant's writings. Based on historical evidence not previously considered alongsidePerpetual Peace, I suggest that Kant's leading concern…
Nondomination or Practices of Freedom? French Muslim Women, Foucault, and The Full Veil Ban
This article proposes a conception of freedom understood as practices. Based on Michel Foucault's work on the ethics of the self, I develop a conception of freedom that exceeds liberation and distinguishes between genuine practices of freedom and practices of the self that are unreflective responses to systems of government. I develop and illustrate this conception through an engagement with the recent French ban on full veils in public spaces an…
Reel Latinas? Race, gender, and asymmetric recognition in contemporary film
This article argues that idealized portrayals of immigrants prevalent in political discourse must be scrutinized for their support of gender and racial nationalism and the effects they have on our understanding of (Latina/o) immigrant inclusion and democracy. Through the examination of three contemporary films with Latina leads – Real Women Have Curves, Spanglish, and Quinceañera – the article argues that these discourses rely on an asymmetric re…
Perpetual what? Injury, Sovereignty and a Cosmopolitan View of Immigration
Can Kantian cosmopolitanism contribute to normative approaches to immigration? Kant developed the universal right to hospitality in the context of late eighteenth-century colonialism. He claimed that non-European countries had a sovereign right over their territory and the conditions of foreigners' visits. This sovereign prerogative limited visitors' right to hospitality. The interconnected and complementary system of right he devised is influent…
Socialism and Empire: Labor Mobility, Racial Capitalism, and the Political Theory of Migration
This essay brings together political theories of empire and racial capitalism to clarify the entanglements between socialist and imperial discourse at the turn of the twentieth century. I show that white labor activists and intellectuals in the United States and the British settler colonies borrowed from imperial scripts to mark non-white workers as a threat. This discourse was thus both imperial and popular, because it absorbed the white working…
Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and the Reproduction of Capitalism
Democracy and Empire theorizes the material basis of popular sovereignty via the Black radical tradition. Popular sovereignty contains an affective attachment to wealth, secured through collective agreements to dominate others, i.e., self-and-other-determination. Inés Valdez expands on racial capitalism by theorizing its Anglo-European-based popular politics, which authorize capital accumulation enabled by empire and legitimated by racial ideolog…
It's Not about Race: Good Wars, Bad Wars, and the Origins of Kant's Anti-Colonialism
This article offers a new interpretation of Kant's cosmopolitanism and his anti-colonialism inToward Perpetual Peace. Kant's changing position has been the subject of extensive debates that have, however, not recognized the central place of colonialism in the political, economic, and military debates in Europe in Kant's writings. Based on historical evidence not previously considered alongsidePerpetual Peace, I suggest that Kant's leading concern…
Reconceiving Immigration Politics: Walter Benjamin, Violence, and Labor
This article theorizes the circulation of violence in the realms of immigration and labor. Through Walter Benjamin, I conceptualize the relationship between racial violence and law, and note that although violence can support the authority of law, excessive violence makes law vulnerable to decay. This tension between authority and excess is eased by humanitarianism. I find clues for disrupting this circulation in Benjamin's twin notions of the re…
Missing in action: Practice, Paralegality, and the Nature of Immigration Enforcement
U.S. immigration control is typically understood in terms of enforcement practices undertaken by federal officers guided by legislation and court decisions. While legislation and court opinions are important components of the immigration control apparatus, they do not adequately account for immigration control ‘on the ground.’ To explore this problem, we advance the concept of paralegality, the practices and operations that constitute a dynamic s…
Empire, Popular Sovereignty, and the Problem of Self-and-Other-Determination
This article develops W. E. B. Du Bois’s notion of democratic despotism to illustrate the entanglement of popular sovereignty and empire through an excessive form of western self-determination and theorizes how features of this formation remain today. Democratic despotism implies that, in western democracies at the turn of the twentieth century, popular sovereignty was an impulse to partake of the wealth and resources obtained by empire. Western …
Tradition and Disruption in Latinx and Latin American Political Thought
This article presents Latinx political thought as a distinctive tradition in political theory that reworks central concepts in response to historical experiences of conquest, colonialism, migration, and transnational politics. In reconstructing this tradition, we argue that its problem space converges with US-based Latin American political thought. The article first traces a genealogy of Latinx political theory and then explores three realms of t…
Nondomination or Practices of Freedom? French Muslim Women, Foucault, and The Full Veil Ban
This article proposes a conception of freedom understood as practices. Based on Michel Foucault's work on the ethics of the self, I develop a conception of freedom that exceeds liberation and distinguishes between genuine practices of freedom and practices of the self that are unreflective responses to systems of government. I develop and illustrate this conception through an engagement with the recent French ban on full veils in public spaces an…
Perpetual what? Injury, Sovereignty and a Cosmopolitan View of Immigration
Can Kantian cosmopolitanism contribute to normative approaches to immigration? Kant developed the universal right to hospitality in the context of late eighteenth-century colonialism. He claimed that non-European countries had a sovereign right over their territory and the conditions of foreigners' visits. This sovereign prerogative limited visitors' right to hospitality. The interconnected and complementary system of right he devised is influent…
Juxtaposition, Hemispheric Thought, and the Bounds of Political Theory: Juliet Hooker’s Theorizing Race in the Americas
Latina/o stars in US eyes: The making and meanings of film and TV stardom
Perpetual what? Injury, Sovereignty and a Cosmopolitan View of Immigration
Can Kantian cosmopolitanism contribute to normative approaches to immigration? Kant developed the universal right to hospitality in the context of late eighteenth-century colonialism. He claimed that non-European countries had a sovereign right over their territory and the conditions of foreigners' visits. This sovereign prerogative limited visitors' right to hospitality. The interconnected and complementary system of right he devised is influent…
Reel Latinas? Race, gender, and asymmetric recognition in contemporary film
This article argues that idealized portrayals of immigrants prevalent in political discourse must be scrutinized for their support of gender and racial nationalism and the effects they have on our understanding of (Latina/o) immigrant inclusion and democracy. Through the examination of three contemporary films with Latina leads – Real Women Have Curves, Spanglish, and Quinceañera – the article argues that these discourses rely on an asymmetric re…
Nondomination or Practices of Freedom? French Muslim Women, Foucault, and The Full Veil Ban
This article proposes a conception of freedom understood as practices. Based on Michel Foucault's work on the ethics of the self, I develop a conception of freedom that exceeds liberation and distinguishes between genuine practices of freedom and practices of the self that are unreflective responses to systems of government. I develop and illustrate this conception through an engagement with the recent French ban on full veils in public spaces an…
Missing in action: Practice, Paralegality, and the Nature of Immigration Enforcement
U.S. immigration control is typically understood in terms of enforcement practices undertaken by federal officers guided by legislation and court decisions. While legislation and court opinions are important components of the immigration control apparatus, they do not adequately account for immigration control ‘on the ground.’ To explore this problem, we advance the concept of paralegality, the practices and operations that constitute a dynamic s…
It's Not about Race: Good Wars, Bad Wars, and the Origins of Kant's Anti-Colonialism
This article offers a new interpretation of Kant's cosmopolitanism and his anti-colonialism inToward Perpetual Peace. Kant's changing position has been the subject of extensive debates that have, however, not recognized the central place of colonialism in the political, economic, and military debates in Europe in Kant's writings. Based on historical evidence not previously considered alongsidePerpetual Peace, I suggest that Kant's leading concern…
Transnational Cosmopolitanism: Kant, Du Bois, and Justice as a Political Craft
Based on the theoretical reconstruction of neglected post-WWI writings and political action of W. E. B. Du Bois, this volume offers a normative account of transnational cosmopolitanism. Pointing out the limitations of Kant's cosmopolitanism through a novel contextual account of Perpetual Peace, Transnational Cosmopolitanism shows how these limits remain in neo-Kantian scholarship. Inés Valdez's framework overcomes these limitations in a methodolo…
Association, Reciprocity, and Emancipation: A Transnational Account of the Politics of Global Justice
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Juxtaposition, Hemispheric Thought, and the Bounds of Political Theory: Juliet Hooker’s Theorizing Race in the Americas
Law, Police Violence, and Race: Grounding and Embodying the State of Exception
This paper theorizes police violence by elucidating the relationship between racialized violence and law. We contrast Giorgio Agamben's generalized state of exception with Walter Benjamin's targeted and localized account, which we complement with Saidiya Hartman's work on periodization and affect. We argue that racialized police violence is constitutive of law because police routinely enact violence in racially targeted ways, and judicial practic…
Re-Reading Idris's Kant and Quṭb through an Excursus into the Cosmopolitan Implications of Barbary Coast Corsairs
Murad Idris's War for Peace is an incredible accomplishment. By examining and deconstructing accounts of peace from Plato to Quṭb, Idris offers a sobering perspective on the many meanings, manipula
Response to Alasia Nuti’s Review of Transnational Cosmopolitanism: Kant, Du Bois, and Justice as a Political Craft
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Reconceiving Immigration Politics: Walter Benjamin, Violence, and Labor
This article theorizes the circulation of violence in the realms of immigration and labor. Through Walter Benjamin, I conceptualize the relationship between racial violence and law, and note that although violence can support the authority of law, excessive violence makes law vulnerable to decay. This tension between authority and excess is eased by humanitarianism. I find clues for disrupting this circulation in Benjamin's twin notions of the re…
Cosmopolitanism Without National Consciousness is not Radical: Creolizing Gordon’s Fanon Through Du Bois
In this essay, I engage with the methodological contributions and original readings of Fanon and Rousseau contained in Jane Anna Gordon’s Creolizing Political Theory. I build upon one insight in particular––Gordon’s illuminating joint reading of Rousseau’s general will and Fanon’s national consciousness—in order to reflect on Fanon’s ambivalence about Pan-Africanism. In this task, I engage with W.E.B. Du Bois’s transnational thinking in order to …
Socialism and Empire: Labor Mobility, Racial Capitalism, and the Political Theory of Migration
This essay brings together political theories of empire and racial capitalism to clarify the entanglements between socialist and imperial discourse at the turn of the twentieth century. I show that white labor activists and intellectuals in the United States and the British settler colonies borrowed from imperial scripts to mark non-white workers as a threat. This discourse was thus both imperial and popular, because it absorbed the white working…
Toward a Narrow Cosmopolitanism: Kant’s Anthropology, Racialized Character and the Construction of Europe
This article explores the distinctions among European peoples’ character established in Kant’s anthropology and their connection with his politics. These aspects are neglected relative to the analysis of race between Europeans and non-Europeans, but Kant’s anthropological works portray the people of Mediterranean Europe as not capable of civilization because of the dominance of passion in their faculty of desire, which he ties to ‘Oriental’ influ…
Global justice and social conflict: The foundations of liberal order and international law
W. E. B. Du Bois and transnational cosmopolitanism: A conversation
US Law and Filipino Resistance to Racial Capitalism: Review of Michael W. McCann with George I. Lovell Union by Law
US Law and Filipino Resistance to Racial CapitalismReview of Michael W. McCann with George I. Lovell Union by Law Inés Valdez (bio) Michael W. McCann with George I. Lovell. Union by Law: Filipino American Labor Activists, Rights Radicalism, and Racial Capitalism. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2020. 504 pp. $105 (hc). ISBN: 9780226679877. Union by Law is a wide-ranging study of twentieth-century Filipino labor activism and the changing legal …
Empire, Popular Sovereignty, and the Problem of Self-and-Other-Determination
This article develops W. E. B. Du Bois’s notion of democratic despotism to illustrate the entanglement of popular sovereignty and empire through an excessive form of western self-determination and theorizes how features of this formation remain today. Democratic despotism implies that, in western democracies at the turn of the twentieth century, popular sovereignty was an impulse to partake of the wealth and resources obtained by empire. Western …
Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and the Reproduction of Capitalism
Democracy and Empire theorizes the material basis of popular sovereignty via the Black radical tradition. Popular sovereignty contains an affective attachment to wealth, secured through collective agreements to dominate others, i.e., self-and-other-determination. Inés Valdez expands on racial capitalism by theorizing its Anglo-European-based popular politics, which authorize capital accumulation enabled by empire and legitimated by racial ideolog…
The Politics (and Morality) of Interpretation: Transnationalism as a Distinct Account of the Global
On the parochial neglect of the Marxist anticolonial critique of political economy
Jim Tully's “Deparochializing Political Theory and Beyond” provides an exemplar account of the modes of theoretical and dialogical engagement required for recovering non-Western thinkers and provincializing Western political thought. I argue that Tully's approach helps explain the provincialism of anticolonial political theory in matters of political economy even while it substantively fails to follow its own dictates. By provincialism I mean the…
Labor, nature, and the reproduction of capitalism: An exchange on subjection and emancipation
Tradition and Disruption in Latinx and Latin American Political Thought
This article presents Latinx political thought as a distinctive tradition in political theory that reworks central concepts in response to historical experiences of conquest, colonialism, migration, and transnational politics. In reconstructing this tradition, we argue that its problem space converges with US-based Latin American political thought. The article first traces a genealogy of Latinx political theory and then explores three realms of t…
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