Braidotti Rosi - Conflicting Humanities

Conflicting
Humanities

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Conflicting
Humanities

EDITED BY
ROSI BRAIDOTTI AND
PAUL GILROY

Bloomsbury Academic

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CONTENTS

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

Identity (Harvard University Press, 2013). His two short books Gandhis Integrity (Columbia University Press) and What is a Muslim? (Princeton University Press) are forthcoming. His current large project is on Practical Reason and its Relevance to Politics.

Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature and the Co-director of the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley. She is active in gender and sexual politics and human rights, anti-war politics, and Jewish Voice for Peace. She is presently the recipient of the Andrew Mellon Award for Distinguished Academic Achievement in the Humanities. Her most recent publications include: Antigones Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death (Columbia University Press, 2000); Precarious Life: Powers of Violence and Mourning (Verso, 2004); Undoing Gender (Routledge, 2004); Who Sings the Nation-State?: Language, Politics, Belonging (Seagull Books, 2008, with Gayatri Spivak); Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable? (Verso, 2009); and two co-authored volumes: Is Critique Secular? (Fordham University Press, 2009) and The Power of Religion in Public Life (Columbia University Press, 2011).

Paul Gilroy teaches American and English literature at Kings College London. Before that he was the first holder of the Anthony Giddens Professorship in Social Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is well known for his critical explorations into the legacy of colonialism, the rich promises of culturally and ethnically diverse societies and the ideal of cosmopolitanism from below. Gilroy taught at Yale University in the USA for some years and has been active in the artistic and cultural life of London, his home city, where he worked for the GLC between 1982 and 1986. Gilroy is a specialist in the field of musical culture. His most recent books include Kuroi Taiseiyo to Chishikijin no Genzai (The Black Atlantic and Intellectuals Today) (Shoraisha, 2009, co-author) and Darker Than Blue (Harvard University Press, 2010).

Stathis Gourgouris is Professor of Classics, English, and Comparative Literature and Society and Director of the Institute of Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. He is the author of Dream Nation (Stanford University Press, 1996); Does Literature Think? (Stanford University Press, 2003) and Lessons in Secular Criticism (Fordham, 2013), as well as editor of Freud and Fundamentalism (Fordham, 2010). His forthcoming work includes The Perils of the One , the second volume of lessons in secular criticism with emphasis on political theology as monarchical thought, and The Synaesthetics of the Polity , a collection of essays on poetry, music and film.

Engin F. Isin is Chair in Citizenship and Professor of Politics in Politics and International Studies (POLIS) at the Faculty of Social Sciences, the Open University. He is the author of Cities Without Citizens (Black Rose Books, 1992); Being Political (University of Minnesota Press, 2002); Citizens Without Frontiers (Bloomsbury, 2012); and, with Evelyn Ruppert, Being Digital Citizens (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015). He has edited, with Greg Nielsen, Acts of Citizenship (Zed Books, 2008), and with Michael Saward, Enacting European Citizenship (Cambridge University Press, 2013). Edward Saids work has inspired his two edited collections, Citizenship after Orientalism: An Unfinished Project (Routledge, 2014) and Citizenship after Orientalism: Transforming Political Theory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).

Jamila M. H. Mascat is Post-doctoral Fellow at Nosophi Universit de Paris 1/Sorbonne. Her research interests focus on Hegel and contemporary Hegelianism namely the reception of Hegel in twentieth-century French and German philosophy as well as on the legacy of Enlightenment in post-colonial knowledge. Her book Hegel a Jena. La critica dellastrazione was published in 2011 (Pensa Multimedia). In 2012 she co-edited Femministe a parole. Grovigli da districare (Ediesse), a critical dictionary at the intersection between feminist, queer and post-colonial theories; in 2014 she co-edited and co-translated an anthology of Hegels early writings ( Il bisogno di filosofia (18011804), Mimesis). She also co-edited a special issue of the journal Cultural Studies on Relocating Subalternity (forthcoming, 2016).

Aamir R. Mufti was born and raised in Karachi, Pakistan, and is currently Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Seminar in Global Critical Humanities at the University of California, Los Angeles. He pursued his doctoral studies in literature at Columbia under the supervision of Edward Said. Also trained in Anthropology at Columbia and the London School of Economics, he conducts research and teaching that reflect this disciplinary range. His work reconsiders the secularization thesis in a comparative perspective, with a special interest in Islam and modernity in India and the cultural politics of Jewish identity in Western Europe. He has published widely on a range of topics: colonial and post-colonial literatures of the IndoBritish encounter, including nineteenth- and twentieth-century Urdu literature; nationalism and minority cultures; the partition of India; exile and displacement; refugees and statelessness; the notion of the post-secular; language conflicts; global English and the vernaculars; and the history of anthropology. His books include Enlightenment in the Colony: The Jewish Question and the Crisis of Postcolonial Culture (Princeton University Press, 2007) and Forget English! Orientalisms and World Literatures (Harvard University Press, forthcoming). Among his current work are two book projects one concerning exile and criticism and the other, the colonial reinvention of Islamic traditions. He serves on the editorial collective of the journal boundary 2 .

Ankhi Mukherjee is Professor of English and World Literatures in the English Faculty at Oxford and a Fellow of Wadham College. She works on Victorian and Modern literature, post-colonial studies, critical theory and intellectual history. Mukherjees first book is Aesthetic Hysteria: The Great Neurosis in Victorian Melodrama and Contemporary Fiction (Routledge, 2007). Her second monograph, What is a Classic? Postcolonial Rewriting and Invention of the Canon (Stanford University Press, 2014), was awarded the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize. She has published on a wide range of topics in PMLA, MLQ, Contemporary Literature , Paragraph , Parallax and others, and has co-edited the Concise Companion to Psychoanalysis, Literature, and Culture (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014). Mukherjee is currently working on her third monograph, Unseen City: Travelling Psychoanalysis and the Urban Poor , on psychoanalysis and its vexed relationship to race and poverty, and editing After Lacan , a collection of essays on the intellectual legacy of Jacques Lacan (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).