What’s left of democracy
Introduction to the symposium on Inés Valdez’s Democracy and Empire
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12610642 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Catherine Lu (0000-0001-5558-497X, McGill University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Pages | 1-5 |
| Publication date | 2026-03-15 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1369-8230 • E-ISSN: 1743-8772 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13698230.2026.2645290 |
| OpenAlex | W7136061492 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
This is the introduction to the symposium on Inés Valdez’s Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and the Reproduction of Capitalism, providing a brief summary of her book’s main contributions to the theory of racial capitalism. The book explores how the political struggles to establish popular sovereignty in contexts of empire and capitalist development, especially in the Anglo-European centres of power, became infused with racial capitalist logics. The introduction concludes with a brief summary of the avenues of critique posed in the symposium commentaries.
Government (linguistics · Politics · Power (physics · Work (physics · Early Modern Women Writers · Latin American and Latino Studies · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America
| Highly cited | No |
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