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On the ruins of their belligerent persistence in and through their Europe, we find the relics of a world beyond their reach that once was, and a world that we need to imagine not against but beyond their Europe.
Europe and Its Shadows
Hamid Dabashi
When a professor encourages students to adopt gender- neutral language or signs an open letter to university administration, she stands in the right sort of relationship to be addressing these others in virtue ofher role. Yet at the same time, she also pushes its boundaries by attempting to achieve something outside of it: by influencing the way that others carry out their roles (as students, deans, etc.). In effect, she alters the expectations issuing from the role-segments of which she is a party, thereby opening up new options by reweighting the stakes.
What Is My Role in Changing the System? A New Model of Responsibility for Structural Injustice
Robin Zheng
This managerialisation of organisational forms, relationships and practices is one of the means through which voluntary organisations are articulated with states and markets in ways that displace their publicness.