[PHILOS-L] 9/16: Lidal Dror on Protests as World-Making Projects

[Emma Arvedon]

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The Center for Global Ethics and Politics is excited to welcome philosopher Lidal Dror as our first colloquium speaker of Fall 2025. The lecture will be followed by a Q&A with the speaker. Protests as World-Making Projects Lidal Dror (Princeton University) Tuesday, September 16, 6:30 p.m. (ET) GC Room 9207 And online via Zoom   This is an in-person event that will allow for virtual participation via Zoom. The in-person talk will be followed by a reception with wine and snacks.  If you plan to attend virtually, please register in advance for this meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with information about joining.   Abstract How should we understand different types of actions involved in protests? Some actions seem primarily symbolic, aiming to be expressive, communicative, and thereby persuade people. Other actions are more like direct action, materially aimed at directly stopping some injustice. In this paper we analyze an underexplored type of action that is in the middle of these two binaries. Many acts of protest involve material contestation (like the reappropriation of spaces), where the function of such material action is, in materially changing the world, to undermine the epistemic justification for various ideological beliefs. In undermining ideological beliefs, these actions can be valuable in getting people out of the grips of ideology and help them imagine other ways the world can be. Understanding various protest tactics in this more nuanced way helps us better appreciate the value of various actions, and assess their utility better. Speaker Bio Lidal Dror is an assistant professor of philosophy at Princeton University. His philosophical interests are centered around the epistemic effects of oppression, and the normative implications of those effects. In addition to work on standpoint theory and ideology, Dror is currently working on imperialism, and meta-social philosophy. Please feel free to forward this invitation to your colleagues and friends. If you'd like to receive future CGEP communications, subscribe to our list here.

 

 

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