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Yuna Blajer de la Garza

@tunablazer.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor, Loyola University Chicago. Previously a postdoc at Stanford Ethics. Alumna of UChicago and Colmex. Political theory + ethnographic methods 🌱 www.yunablajer.com A House is Not a Home (OUP, 2027). Now available to pre-order.

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kennan @kennan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Job! TT! Assistant professor in political theory! (And it’s at my PhD alma mater) www.schooljobs.com/careers/hawa...
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Assistant Professor (Political Theory) (0088732)
Title: Assistant Professor (Political Theory) Position Number: 0088732Hiring Unit: UHM College of Social Sciences – Department of Political ScienceLocation: Manoa Campus Date Posted: September 17, 202...
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Thomas Zeitzoff @zeitzoff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Fascinating piece from @garciaponce.bsky.social on how Mexican criminal organizations operate and even govern alongside the state. goodauthority.org/news/how-mex...
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How Mexico’s cartels rule alongside government institutions
Research in Michoacán shows how criminal groups survive leadership turnovers, expand into new markets, and retain power.
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Yuna Blajer de la Garza @tunablazer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
My kind of policy!
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Yuna Blajer de la Garza @tunablazer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I am not very active on this site, but I am very happy that "(Non)belonging and (un)freedom" is out in the AJPS! I have spent a bit of time thinking about belonging as a concept, and its relationship to equality. But in this text, I focus on its relationship to freedom. doi.org/10.1111/ajps...
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American Journal of Political Science | MPSA Journal | Wiley Online Library
This article centers on the concept of “belonging” to argue that belonging and freedom are fundamentally related, and that this relationship cannot be easily captured in formal terms alone. I contend...
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Chong-Ming Lim @cmlim.eurosky.social · 29/06/2026
Philosophy job at Sheffield (fixed term); please share! #PhilJobs #philsky jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Lecturer...
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Lecturer in Political Philosophy
Lecturer in Political Philosophy
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Jonathan Webber @jonathanwebber.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
“The corporate takeover of language and thought will only succeed if academics and students allow it.” Edinburgh Philosophy telling it like it is #philsky #ai
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Does Your Department Have an AI Policy? Here’s Edinburgh’s - Daily Nous
Has your department instituted an AI policy? If so, whom does it govern, and what does it say? What should such a policy say? Has your department considered an AI policy but held off on writing or imp...
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Socrates: and what is the purpose of a screen? Gloucon: to look at S: just so. And where does one look when driving? G: at the road S: and does a man’s gaze best view object at a time, or two? G: surely just one S: indeed - thus it cannot be proper for a car to have a screen
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Paulina Ochoa Espejo @pochoaespejo.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
This seems relevant today: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Taking Place Seriously: Territorial Presence and the Rights of Immigrants
Click on the article title to read more.
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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 13/03/2026
what is the largest animal you are confident you could expel, singlehandedly, from a medium-size bookshop? RULES: - you have no resources beyond what is available in the shop - you must remain more or less uninjured - bookshop has 2 floors; animal is on ground floor, you can choose where you begin
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Yuna Blajer de la Garza @tunablazer.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
As part of a symposium on Shmuel Nili's latest book, Beyond the Law's Reach?, I wrote an essay that was just published in Ethics & International Affairs. Here it is! Check out Nili's book, a great read, and also the two other excellent essays in the symposium by Michael Blake and Alex Zakaras.
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Alison McQueen @aejm.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Graduate students in political theory: this is a fantastic opportunity! Apply!
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
JOB College Lectureship and Fellowship in Modern History and Politics (c20), Trinity College, Cambridge [This includes a teaching requirement for International Relations] www.trin.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/co...
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College Lectureship and Fellowship in Modern History and Politics
Applications are invited for appointment to a College Lectureship in Modern History and Politics, together with a Fellowship, tenable for five years in the first instance, with the possibility of…
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Yuna Blajer de la Garza @tunablazer.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
If you are a political theory PhD student or junior scholar interested in discussing all things publishing in political theory, please join the WPSA Political Theory virtual community on Thursday, October 30th for a panel on Academic Publishing. We have a great group of panelists! Please do join us.
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Yuna Blajer de la Garza @tunablazer.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Please join us on Friday, August 22nd to discuss three new books in political theory!
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Annie Heffernan @annieheff.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Coming soon to an open access APSR near you: (all kidding aside, I'm so happy to see this piece out in the world)
Screen capture of the first bage of an article in American Political Science Review, reading as follows:
Title: "They Attend Strictly to Their Own Business": Disability and the Construction of the Worker-Citizen
Ann K. Heffernan, University of Michigan, United States

Contributing to a growing interest in disability in political science, this article makes the case for the central role of disability in upholding the belief in work as requisite for full citizenship. Turning to the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it shows how disability and the figure of the disabled worker were used to fortify emergent understandings of work against the changes wrought by industrial capitalism. Focusing on three sites of disabled labor—the school-based workshop, custodial institution, and industrial factory—it reveals the crucial ideological work performed by disability in sustaining the myth of the independent worker-citizen. Where existing scholarship has focused on disability either as an identity category or as a target of rights and policy, this article models an alternative approach, arguing for the relevance of disability as a concept that is integral to, and productive of, the ways we understand citizenship and political belonging.
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Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · 08/05/2025
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
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Yuna Blajer de la Garza @tunablazer.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Join us tomorrow, at noon ET, for the next meeting of the "Interpretivists to Intepretive Methods" series organized by APSA's IMM. Richard Holtzman (Bryant) will be our presenter. The talks are free and open to everyone, but registration is required. We hope you can join! mailchi.mp/26d427dd95c8...
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TOMORROW - April 25: Richard Holtzman does Presidency Studies through an Interpretive Lens
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Yuna Blajer de la Garza @tunablazer.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
If you are interested in interpretive methods, I hope you can join the @interpretivemm.bsky.social tomorrow for the research presentations of our Spotlight Scholars! mailchi.mp/ad01ac9a3016...
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TOMORROW - March 21: Spotlight Scholars Research Presentations
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Yuna Blajer de la Garza @tunablazer.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Excited for this!
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Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
We are hiring TWO political theorists as well as a PPE position which is open to theorists (focus on history of economic thought) - please apply and circulate! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/108445-...
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Lecturer in Political Theory
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Yuna Blajer de la Garza @tunablazer.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Loyola has a new search for an Assistant Professor (TT) in Italian American studies. The search is carried out, at large, by the College of Arts and Sciences, and the person hired could be part of any of CAS's departments. I would, of course, love to have a political theorist fill this role!
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Yuna Blajer de la Garza @tunablazer.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
For those of you interested in ethnographic methods, please join the IMM next Friday, February 21, for a session on Intepretive Interviewing with Fred Schaffer. The sessions are held on Zoom and are open to the public, but registration is required. mailchi.mp/227367b2224a...
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NEXT WEEK - February 21: Fred Schaffer does Interpretive Interviewing
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𝙰𝚛𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙰𝚋𝚒𝚣𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚑 @abizadeh.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Giving online talk on “Ethics in Academic Publishing” at the SJ Center for Business Ethics on Feb. 10 at 5pm EST. I’ll be discussing the crisis of for-profit academic journal publishing, the emerging diamond open access alternative, and what we can do. You can register to attend online here:
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Ethics in Academic Publishing. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Prof. Arash Abizadeh from McGill University will be discussing the ethics and inequities in academic publishing, focusing on exploitation by commercial publishers and barriers to accessing knowledge. ...
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Yuna Blajer de la Garza @tunablazer.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
This was such a good read, a welcome distraction in these times.
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Lucia Rafanelli @lrafanell.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Join the WPSA Political Theory Virtual Community this Friday 1/24, 4-5:30 pm ET to discuss @amitr.bsky.social and Michael Illuzzi's "Stories of Transnational Peoplehood" w/ our very own @tunablazer.bsky.social as commenter! Details here: mailchi.mp/160b383e0469... #polisky #poltheory
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REMINDER: Fri. Jan. 24 - Michael Illuzzi and Amit Ron on "Stories of Transnational Peoplehood"
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William Nomikos @wnomikos.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
My book, "Local Peace, International Builders," is now OUT. It examines the conditions under which international actors successfully bring order, peace, and stability to fragile settings. To read more about each chapter and download the book OPEN ACCESS: www.williamgnomikos.com/local-peace
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Jamie Mayerfeld @jmayerfeld.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
The next meeting of the WPSA Pol Theory Virtual Colloquium, Fri. Jan. 25, will feature Michael Illuzzi and Amit Ron @amitr.bsky.social presenting their paper "Stories of Transnational Peoplehood," with Yuna Blajer @tunablazer.bsky.social as discussant. Please join us! mailchi.mp/7d46c2cfd817...
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Friday, January 24 - Michael Illuzzi and Amit Ron on "Stories of Transnational Peoplehood"
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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
In the 1920s, Gandhi developed a distinctive, neglected position in animal ethics - "progressive ahimsaism". To encourage scholarship on this, I've extracted his series of essays "Is this humanity?" from the Collected Works and put it on PhilPapers: philpapers.org/rec/GANITH
A quotation from Gandhi's essay "Is this humanity?"
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
It's breathtaking both how wrong and how many things are wrong with this guy who believes everything is an alienable commodity.
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Josh Milburn @joshmilburn.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
A reminder about these PhD opportunities. 6+ fully funded open studentships, plus one ring-fenced for UK minority ethnic candidates, in my school. I'm happy to support potential applicants in my research areas, including animal ethics/politics. Application deadline: 30 January. #philsky #polisky
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Yuna Blajer de la Garza @tunablazer.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Please join the @interpretivemm.bsky.social on Friday, January 10th at 12:00 PM Eastern Time for the next session of the Interpretivists do Interpretive Methods Series! We will have a talk by the wonderful Diana Kim (Georgetown) on archival research and interpretive methods. tinyurl.com/mt8437z8
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Next Friday, January 10 - Diana Kim does Archival Research
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jen forestal @seejenspeak.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
anyone (know anyone) in Chicago available & interested to teach intro to theory for Loyola next semester? we had a part-time instructor leave unexpectedly and kinda leave us hanging!
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Yuna Blajer de la Garza @tunablazer.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
I am very excited that this article is out in the world! "Habits of democracy: practices, mores, and neighborhood meetings in Paris" is now available online at the European Journal of Political Theory. If you'd like to read it but lack access, let me know. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
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Yuna Blajer de la Garza @tunablazer.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Growing up, I remember knowing kids who had had polio; efforts to eradicate it through vaccination were underway. The last case in Mexico was recorded in 1990. Vaccines are pretty miraculous. Behold this beautiful graph about the impact of vaccines in the US. graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...
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Battling Infectious Diseases in the 20th Century: The Impact of Vaccines
The number of infected people, measured over 70-some years and across all 50 states and the District of Columbia, generally declined after vaccines were introduced.
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Yuna Blajer de la Garza @tunablazer.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
I am in the middle of grading tons of papers. Over and over again, students write "throughout" or "within" when they could simply say "in" (e.g., "throughout this essay" or "within his text"). I am trying to find the culprit--is this one of those silly AI suggestions to needlessly vary the wording?
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Stanford PACS @stanfordpacs.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Authored by @robreich.bsky.social, @tlechtable.bsky.social & Emma Saunders-Hastings, the new entry for “philanthropy" in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy offers insights on giving in the context of philosophical traditions, current practices, and more. plato.stanford.edu/entries/phil...
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Yuna Blajer de la Garza @tunablazer.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
If you are interested (or just curious!) about interpretive methods, considering joining the @interpretivemm.bsky.social for the events of the "Interpretivists do Interpretive Methods Series." We have an excellent lineup to kick off 2025: Diana Kim, Jessica Soedirgo, Aarie Glas, and Fred Schaffer.
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Save the Dates in 2025! Interpretivists do Interpretive Methods Series
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Helen Galvin Ross @helengalvinross.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
CFP: The UChicago Graduate Conference in Political Theory is accepting abstract submissions for its bi-annual conference to be held April 12-13, 2025, with keynote Wendy Brown and plenary speaker @camilavergara.bsky.social
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Yuna Blajer de la Garza @tunablazer.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Three wonderful colleagues (@lrafanell.bsky.social, @glennmackin.bsky.social, and @jmayerfeld.bsky.social) and I run the WPSA political theory virtual community, a political theory workshop that meets on a monthly basis via Zoom to discuss work in progress. We would love to see new faces!
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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Many commentators say that vigilante groups are never the answer. But they clearly don't know about the masked Ecuadorian trio named “Acción Ortográfica Quito,” who roam the streets at night with a singular purpose: to correct all the spelling and grammar mistakes they find in graffiti.
An example of Acción Ortográfica Quito doing the Lord's work (graffiti on a wall corrected with red spray paint)
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Yuna Blajer de la Garza @tunablazer.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
My department, Political Science at Loyola Chicago, is searching for a TT Assistant Professor in IR and environmental politics! The deadline is November 30, 2024. Please do share widely! www.careers.luc.edu/postings/29662
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Political Science, Rigali Assistant Professor of Political Science (International Relations with specialization in Environmental Politics), Tenure Track
The Department of Political Science in the College of Arts and Sciences at Loyola University Chicago seeks qualified candidates for a tenure-track appointment as endowed Assistant Professor beginning ...
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Henrik D Kugelberg @henrikdku.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Here is a rapidly growing starter pack with political theorists and philosophers. Please share it widely and send me a message if you want to be added to the list!!🌻 go.bsky.app/4uqLbgZ
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Yuna Blajer de la Garza @tunablazer.bsky.social · 01/11/2024
Yes! US policy affects millions of people who cannot cast a ballot: in addition to disenfranchised people, consider green card holders, people on visas, and undocumented people living in the US. But consider as well every person in the world affected by US policy on climate change, for example.
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Yuna Blajer de la Garza @tunablazer.bsky.social · 25/03/2024
If you are (or know of) a graduate student who recently presented a paper at a conference that uses or discusses interpretive methods, please consider (self-)nominating the paper for the Hayward R. Alker award. The deadline to submit nominations has been extended to April 15! tinyurl.com/26489zty
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Yuna Blajer de la Garza @tunablazer.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
I posted this before in the other place, but, since it is now fully published online (with page numbers and all)...: "Conceptualizing Belonging for Democratic Theory," an article related to my book manuscript just came out in the JOP and I am very excited about it! doi.org/10.1086/723980
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Yuna Blajer de la Garza @tunablazer.bsky.social · 08/09/2023
Please join us today and tomorrow for the mini-conference in political theory organized by the WPSA virtual community. We are starting a very cool panel right now!
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Yuna Blajer de la Garza @tunablazer.bsky.social · 03/09/2023
At 8:00 PT today, I will step in for Margaret Gilbert and chair a panel on the Politics of Shared Agency beyond State Borders, with Roberta Fischlii, Elaine Yim, and Samuel Chan. Nathan Pippenger will provide comments. The papers are wonderful, and I hope you'll join if you can!
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Yuna Blajer de la Garza @tunablazer.bsky.social · 02/09/2023
About to start a panel on "Democratic Boundaries," which I am very happy to chair! Come join James Wilson, Kevin Ip, Lucas Swaine, and Kristin Zuhone. Elaine Yim will provide comments. luc.zoom.us/j/8544047146...
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Lucia Rafanelli @lrafanell.bsky.social · 31/08/2023
Join the WPSA Political Theory Virtual Community NEXT WEEK for a mini-conference in support of our members who were pushed out of #APSA. No one should lose out for standing in solidarity w/ labor! This conference is OPEN TO ALL, regardless of WPSA membership. Details 👇 & in 🧵
A white, orange, and blue flyer showing the schedule for a virtual mini-conference in political theory
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