Stefanie Jones

Student Fellow

Stefanie A. Jones is an educator, facilitator, and doctoral candidate at the Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY) working on materialist critiques of modern political economy. In the traditions of critical race feminism, the Birmingham School, and the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu, SAJ’s first major research project interrogates popular participation in contemporary racial capitalism. Of all objects, Broadway theatre provides unique insights into the role of bourgeois liberalism in US struggles over racial hierarchization and capital after 9/11. Acts of Provocation argues that Broadway’s bourgeois “popular antiracisms” structure popular participation in the marketplace, official elections, and militarized security regimes. SAJ is also a Fellow with the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean (IRADAC).

Participating Years

2015–2016

Dialectics of Autonomy and Dependence

Self-determination had a heady run in the 20th century, instanced by both revolutionary assertion and homogenizing mimicry. But what is autonomy now? What is dependence? How are these conditions of existence necessarily related – as contradictory rather than contrasting ideologies, representations, relations, outcomes? What forms reveal the dialectic at work? What forms disguise or displace the dynamic?