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What does a just world look like? This volume begins with a planet beset by accumulating crises--environmental, social, and political--and imagines how we can move beyond them. Drawing on the legacy of post-colonial struggles for liberation, Imagining Global Futures explores a range of radical visions for a world after neoliberalism and empire. Centered on movements in the Global South, the collection challenges dominant patterns of social and political life and sketches more just and sustainable futures we might build in their place. How can we build a world where people are both freer and more equal? An urgent resource for collective imagination, Imagining Global Futures counterposes thick visions of a better world to our dystopian present.--Publisher's website

Editors' note /Joshua Cohen & Deborah Chasman --Humility in pandemic times /Sheila Jasanoff --The contours of ignorance /Zeynep Pamuk --The lives of others /Alexandre White --Why we don't act /Jana Bacevic --Reaping what we sow /Jay S. Kaufman --Final response /Sheila Jasanoff --Imagine the worst /Oded Na'aman --Risk society /Caley Horan --The limits of social science /Lily Hu --Seeking certainty in uncertain times /Michael Jackson --What good can dreaming do? /Annie Howard --We don't know, but let's try it /Simon Torracinta.

As the national debate intensifies over what marriage is and who may marry, Mary Lyndon Shanley argues that although the state should continue to play a role in regulating personal relations, the law must be fundamentally reformed if marriage is to become a more just institution

The events of September 11 and the subsequent war on terrorism have provoked widespread discussion about the possibility of democracy in the Islamic world. Such topics as the meaning of jihad, the role of clerics as authoritative interpreters, and the place of human rights and toleration in Islam have become subjects of urgent public debate around the world. With few exceptions, however, this debate has proceeded in isolation from the vibrant traditions of argument within Islamic theology, philosophy, and law. Islam and the Challenge of Democracy aims to correct this deficiency. The book engages the reader in a rich discourse on the challenges of democracy in contemporary Islam. The collection begins with a lead essay by Khaled Abou El Fadl, who argues that democracy, especially a constitutional democracy that protects basic individual rights, is the form of government best suited to promoting a set of social and political values central to Islam. Because Islam is about submission to God and about each individual's responsibility to serve as His agent on Earth, Abou El Fadl argues, there is no place for the subjugation to human authority demanded by authoritarian regimes. The lead essay is followed by eleven others from internationally respected specialists in democracy and religion. They address, challenge, and engage Abou El Fadl's work. The contributors include John Esposito, Muhammad Fadel, Noah Feldman, Nader Hashemi, Bernard Haykel, Muqtedar Khan, Saba Mahmood, David Novak, William Quandt, Kevin Reinhart, and Jeremy Waldron

"Racist Logic tackles how racist thinking can be found in surprising--and often overlooked--places. In the forum's lead essay, historian Donna Murch traces the origins of the opioid epidemic to Big Pharma's aggressive marketing to white suburbanites. The result, Murch shows, has been to construct a legal world of white drug addiction alongside an illicit drug war that has disproportionately targeted people of color. Other essays examine how the global surrogacy industry incentivizes the reproduction of whiteness while relying on the exploited labor of women of color, how black masculinity is commodified in racial capitalism, and how Wall Street exploited Caribbean populations to bankroll U.S. imperialism"--publishers website

Cover Page -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Editors' Note -- The New Politics of Care -- In This Together -- Ethics at a Distance -- Love One Another or Die -- What Would Health Security Look Like? -- COVID-19 and Political Cultures -- Sweden's Relaxed Approach to COVID-19 Isn't Working -- Lucky to Live in Berlin -- The Solidarity Economy -- No One is Disposable -- COVID-19 and the Politics of Disposability -- COVID-19 and the Color Line -- Why Has COVID-19 Not Led to More Humanitarian Releases? -- Mothering in a Pandemic -- The End of Family Values -- International Labor Solidarity in a Time of Pandemic -- A Politics of the Future -- Getting to Freedom City -- We Should Be Afraid, But Not of Protesters -- The Problem Isn't Just Police, It's Politics -- Getting to Freedom City -- Teaching African American Literature During COVID-19 -- Contributors.

Editor's Note /Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen --On Reproduction /Merve Emre --Mothering /Sophie Lewis --The Violence of the Natural /Annie Menzel --Neoliberal Perfectionism /Chris Kaposy --Be Wary of the Techno-fix /Marcy Darnovsky --Suspending (Feminist) Judgment /Irina Aristakhova --Feminist Paradoxes /Diane Tober --Selling Hope /Miriam Zoll --Extreme Pregnancy /Andrea Long Chu --Every Woman I a Working Woman /Silvia Federici interviewed by Jill Richards --Going to Work in Mommy's Basement /Sarah Sharma --Aging into Feminism /James Chappell --A History of Cyborg Sex, 2018-73 /Cathy O'Neil --When Gays Wanted to Liberate Children /Michael Bronski.