Albena Azmanova is the author of Capitalism on Edge: How Fighting Precarity Can Achieve Radical Change Without Crisis or Utopia (Columbia University Press, 2020). She is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Kent’s Brussels School of International Studies. She is a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: FeatureSafe speech vs free speech: higher education’s false dilemmaIn the ‘cancel culture’ era, universities should remember that the original purpose of free speech was to empower...
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Published in: Rethinking PopulismPrecarity, populism, and prospects for a green democratic transformationThe proper Left alternative to the class struggle is subverting capitalism by mobilizing an ever wider and more...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?How not to turn democracy into a neoliberal fantasyWe need direct public investment at EU level, making everyone’s survival less dependent on the production of profit.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Disaster capitalism or the Green New DealWe now learn that the mismanagement of containment is not a bug, but a feature of policy. This presents us with a...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Towards a thriving European welfare state: thoughts on 9 May 2020As a matter of our societies’ preservation, we need to demand a lasting change in the policy rationale of the EU....
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Coronavirus: is this Snark in fact a Boojum?On the future of capitalism after the pandemic.