Non-Reformist Reforms – LPE Project https://lpeproject.org The Law and Political Economy Project Tue, 22 Oct 2024 14:18:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://lpeproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-LPE_Favicon_512px_BlackBG-450x450.png Non-Reformist Reforms – LPE Project https://lpeproject.org 32 32 The Demand for Transparency as Non-Reformist Reform https://lpeproject.org/blog/the-demand-for-transparency-as-non-reformist-reform/ Mon, 15 Jan 2024 11:30:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=9635 This post concludes a symposium on non-reformist reforms. Read the rest of the posts here. ** ** ** One common myth about legal progress is that the sheer force of good, persuasive arguments creates positive change. The best arguments carry the day, or so we are told by films and folk histories. But organizers constantly remind me otherwise. The how is just as important than the what.

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]]> Abolition in the Interstices https://lpeproject.org/blog/abolition-in-the-interstices/ Thu, 14 Dec 2023 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=9516 This post is part of a symposium on non-reformist reforms. Read the rest of the posts here. ** ** ** Professor Amna Akbar’s recent article Non-Reformist Reforms and Struggles over Life, Death, and Democracy explores how left social movements have relied on non-reformist reforms as a framework for radically reimaging and pursuing new worlds free from predation, violence, exploitation...

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]]> Emancipatory Horizons in Tenant Organizing https://lpeproject.org/blog/emancipatory-horizons-in-tenant-organizing/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=9446 This post is part of a symposium on non-reformist reforms. Read the rest of the posts here. ** ** ** On a cold Saturday in January, KC Tenants, the citywide tenant union in Kansas City, Missouri, received a call from the public school district. Teachers at Gladstone Elementary School in Kansas City’s Northeast neighborhood reported that a set of buildings near the school, home to several students...

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]]> What Does Critical Race Theory Teach Us About Non-Reformist Reforms? https://lpeproject.org/blog/crt-non-reformist-reforms/ Wed, 29 Nov 2023 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=9414 This post is part of a symposium on non-reformist reforms. Read the rest of the posts here. ** ** ** According to the CRT Forward Tracking Project, since September 2020, at least 750 anti-Critical Race Theory (CRT) measures have been introduced by local school boards, state lawmakers, and the federal government. These attacks, which outlaw CRT along with a host of other social justice histories...

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]]> What Non-Reformist Reforms Meant to Us https://lpeproject.org/blog/what-non-reformist-reforms-meant-to-us/ Wed, 15 Nov 2023 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=9382 This post is part of a symposium on non-reformist reforms. Read the rest of the posts here. ** ** ** I welcome Amna Akbar’s article on non-reformist reforms (NRR), particularly because it foregrounds a question the LPE space often bypasses: namely, how might systemic social change occur in the 21st century? What potential paths toward radical transformation do we see? My enthusiasm for the article...

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]]> A Horizon Beyond Legalism: On Non-Reformist Reforms https://lpeproject.org/blog/a-horizon-beyond-legalism-on-non-reformist-reforms/ Mon, 13 Nov 2023 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=9378 This post kicks off a symposium on non-reformist reforms. ** ** ** At the start of my academic career, I analyzed the shifting ideological and material infrastructure of policing after 9/11. I wrote two articles, published in 2013 and 2015, that explored how the domestic footprint of the so-called war on terror entailed police in the United States marshaling significant resources toward monitoring...

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