Elvira Basevich
@EBasevich
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Philosophy Professor @UCDavis.
Berkeley, CA
Joined August 2017
Sunday read: "Sashka and the Subprime Mortgage Crisis" Elvira Basevich's extraordinary account of her childhood as a refugee in the U.S. watching her family be torn apart by the subprime mortgage crisis explores survival, mortality, and love. #Philosophy
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"My brother, Sashka, ran away from home when he was fifteen. It is not quite right to say he ran away from home; our home deserted us."
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"Democracy’s Values and Ideals: A Duboisian Defence" by @EBasevich defends democracy's expressive and experimental values, highlighting the role of black women civic leaders in reimagining care work and extending protections. Read now: https://t.co/M2T5ZTePTe
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All our "New Basics" essays are now online! Explore all 46 essays on the themes of “Planet”, “Society”, “Person”, and “Philosophy” here: https://t.co/ku5PNpunbh Featuring @shaslang @esdsantos @j_e_s_s_whyte @jana_bacevic @MaeveMckeown @EBasevich @dantaylor42 @IanOlasov & more!
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While reading the first chapter of "Kant, Race, and Racism," made available for free by @OUPPhilosophy, complement the experience by listening to Huaping Lu-Adler's conversation with @EBasevich in one of our Digital Dialogues:
Huaping Lu-Adler's "Kant, Race, and Racism" questions Kant's perspectives on racial perceptions. Read the free chapter on what Kant can and cannot tell us about race: https://t.co/8ThuDDEadk
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A deeply moving story of growing up too fast, how we bear the costs of who we choose to become & how sometimes exploitative labor gets masked with terms like "feminine/maternal instinct". Poignant, gem-like lines found throughout, too. Thank you @EBasevich for writing this 🙏
Damn this was hard to write. Thanks to @philosopher1923 for giving this essay a home https://t.co/hPGIxLIa9m
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Now online! "Happy Caregiver Exploitation Day": an essay by @EBasevich Framed around #mothersday2024, Basevich looks at questions related to justice, social mobility (esp. in the work of @jennifermmorton), reproductive rights, and much more. https://t.co/BYqn9Rc96I
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"I want to be able to condemn the structural conditions of my exploitation without condemning the person I ended up becoming as a result."
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Damn this was hard to write. Thanks to @philosopher1923 for giving this essay a home https://t.co/hPGIxLIa9m
thephilosopher1923.org
"I want to be able to condemn the structural conditions of my exploitation without condemning the person I ended up becoming as a result."
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Homeless people didn’t create the affordable housing crisis. In a new Opinion Video, @invisiblepeople argues we shouldn’t punish them for it. Watch:
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Hundreds of thousands of people are homeless. This filmmaker wants you to see them.
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What is worse than a yoga teacher sharing their “philosophy” during class? 😩
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Glad to see this finally appear. My contribution discusses Mills and ideal theory. https://t.co/W6QrwbwT7Z
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Among mainstream political philosophers, Charles Mills is probably best known, not as the author of The Racial Contract, but for his long-running critique of ideal theory and Rawls for his associat...
Delighted to have my special issue on the 25th anniversary of the publication of Charles Mills's The Racial Contract out in CRISPP!! Essays by Linda Alcoff, Frank Kirkland, @DCMatthew1, Lucius Outlaw and Andrea Sullivan-Clarke, as well as my introduction. https://t.co/OJz8VGRjjL
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Delighted to have my special issue on the 25th anniversary of the publication of Charles Mills's The Racial Contract out in CRISPP!! Essays by Linda Alcoff, Frank Kirkland, @DCMatthew1, Lucius Outlaw and Andrea Sullivan-Clarke, as well as my introduction. https://t.co/OJz8VGRjjL
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Charles Mills’s The Racial Contract; edited by Elvira Basevich. Volume 27, Issue 1 of Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy
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@EBasevich has put together an exciting collection of articles on Du Bois and democracy in The Monist. I am privileged to be a part of it and grateful my contribution is open access, thanks to the funds available to me as a Canada Research Chair. https://t.co/9fuUePjsa4
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Abstract. I argue that the second chapter of W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk has been underappreciated as a work of political philosophy, as Du Bo
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I have a new paper out! It'll please nobody. It is a defence of standpoint epistemology that fans of standpoint epistemology will not think is real standpoint epistemology but enemies will think is indeed. Yay! Official link: https://t.co/1vHOpXLrnu Free: https://t.co/ldO3oDmpdj
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My special Issue on Du Bois and Democracy is out now! Check out the essays by Robert Gooding Williams, @ChikeJeffers, @wendysalkin , Kimberly Ann Harris, Ines Valdez, @lastpositivist and me. https://t.co/eYiMGbEQ9M
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My special Issue on Du Bois and Democracy is out now! Check out the essays by Robert Gooding Williams, @ChikeJeffers, Kimberly Ann Harris, Ines Valdez, @lastpositivist and me. https://t.co/eYiMGbEQ9M
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My paper "You Say I Want a Revolution," on W. E. B. Du Bois's John Brown, is out now in The Monist's Du Bois and Democracy issue, alongside articles by @ChikeJeffers, @EBasevich, Robert Gooding-Williams, Inés Valdez, Kimberly Ann Harris, @lastpositivist.
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Video now online! "Kant, Race, and Racism": Huaping Lu-Adler with @EBasevich Kant scholars tend to assume that his racism can be disentangled from his core philosophy. But is this assumption warranted? ⬇️Watch the video here⬇️
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Monday 4th Dec. @ 2pm ET/7pm UK "Kant, Race, and Racism": Huaping Lu-Adler in conversation with @EBasevich Kant scholars tend to assume that his racism can be disentangled from his core philosophy. But is this assumption warranted? ⬇️Register⬇️:
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