Research on how people organise shared resources. Compare actual rules, monitoring and conflict resolution rather than assuming a single governance solution.
Political action, plurality and public life. Her distinctions between labour, work and action are useful starting points for examining institutions.
Ethical cultivation, relationships and ritual in the Analects and its interpretive traditions. Compare translations before assuming a term has a single English equivalent.
An account of historical explanation, social organisation and political power. Compare a narrative claim with the social conditions offered to explain it.
Conceptual decolonisation, translation and political consensus. Examine how a philosophical question changes when it is framed in another language.
Colonial domination, racialisation and lived experience. Keep the historical scene, the speaker and the form of explanation visible while reading.
Historical and political arguments connecting race, class and gender. Look for the institutions and coalitions that make a general claim concrete.
Nishnaabeg intellectual traditions, land-based learning and Indigenous resurgence. Begin with a specific account of learning rather than a universalised idea of Indigenous knowledge.
Coalition, world-travelling and the colonial organisation of gender. Attend to the terms of an encounter and the standpoint from which it is described.
Critiques of development and the separation of humanity from the living world. Read his specific arguments alongside the political situations they address.
Social choice, capabilities and the evaluation of development. Distinguish resources from the real opportunities people have to use them.
Social analysis of race and technological design. Examine how a system’s categories, defaults and institutional uses can reproduce inequality.
Environmental organising and connections among ecological conditions, livelihoods and political participation. Trace the institutions as well as the trees.
