In his article “How Coronavirus is Shaking Up the Moral Universe”, John Authers discusses how utilitarianism could shape COVID response by highlighting Boris Johnson’s “herd immunity” strategy. Authers calls this “brutally utilitarian”, arguing that while many would die through this …
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In his chapter “Normative and Theoretical Foundations on Human Rights” Anthony Langlois sets out to explain the philosophical and political frameworks which have established conceptions of individual human rights through rational rights based on Christian Theology in the pre-enlightenment period, …
The assigned resources for this week examine the work of the Young Lords and the more recently organized Red Nation in liberatory projects. Notably, both groups represent people who have experienced large-scale urban migration, largely because colonialist projects have decimated …
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URB200: Final Project
Introduction
In this project, I aim to trace the relationship between the right to the city and homeless use of public space. To that end, I will first discuss the origins of the right to the city in urban sociology. …
