Brad Evans - Histories of Violence: Post-War Critical Thought

About the editors

Brad Evans is a reader in political violence at the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol, UK. He is also the founder and director of the multi-media and interdisciplinary Histories of Violence project (www.historiesofviolence.com). His latest books include Deleuze and Fascism (with Julian Reid, 2013), Liberal Terror (2013), Resilient Life: The Art of Living Dangerously (with Julian Reid, 2014) and Disposable Futures: The Seducation of Violence in the Age of the Spectacle (with Henry Giroux, 2015). More at www.brad-evans.co.uk.

Terrell Carver is professor of political theory in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol, UK. He has published widely on Marx, Engels and Marxism and on sex, gender and sexuality. His most recent books include a two-volume study of Marx and Engels German ideology manuscripts (with Daniel Blank, 2014) and the Cambridge Companion to The Communist Manifesto (edited with James Farr, 2015). He is co-editor of the journal Contemporary Political Theory and co general editor of three book series: Globalization (with Manfred B. Steger), Routledge Innovators in Political Theory (with Samuel A. Chambers) and Marx, Engels and Marxisms (with Marcello Musto).

HISTORIES OF VIOLENCE

POST-WAR CRITICAL THOUGHT

edited by Brad Evans and Terrell Carver

Histories of Violence: Post-war Critical Thought was first published in 2017 by Zed Books Ltd, The Foundry, 17 Oval Way, London SE11 5RR, UK.

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Segments from Brad Evans work in Chapter 5 (Michel Foucault) were previously published in the article Foucaults Legacy: Security, War and Violence in the 21st Century, Security Dialogue 41:4 (2010): 413433. Reproduced by permission.

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CONTENTS

Jelke Boesten is reader in gender and development at the International Development Institute, Kings College London, UK. Her latest book, Sexual Violence during War and Peace: Gender, Power and Post-conflict Justice in Peru (2014), received the Flora Tristan Best Book Award of the Latin America Studies Association Peru section. In 2010 she published Intersecting Inequalities: Women and Social Policy in Peru . She has published widely on gender justice in Peru in international journals and books, as well as on gender, HIV/AIDS and activism in East Africa.

Ian Buchanan is professor of cultural studies at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He has published on a wide variety of subjects across a range of disciplines, including literary studies, cultural studies, communications studies and philosophy. He is the editor of the Oxford Dictionary of Critical Theory and the founding editor of the international journal Deleuze Studies . He is also the editor of four book series: Deleuze Connections , Critical Connections , Plateaus and Deleuze Encounters .

Lewis R. Gordon is professor of philosophy and Africana studies, with affiliations in Asian and Asian American studies, Caribbean and Latino/a studies and Judaic studies, at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA. He is also European Union visiting chair in philosophy at Universit Toulouse Jean Jaurs, France, and Nelson Mandela visiting professor of politics and international studies at Rhodes University, South Africa. His most recent book is What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought (2015). More at http://lewisrgordon.com.

Kimberly Hutchings is professor of politics and international relations at Queen Mary University of London, UK, and has previously worked at the universities of Wolverhampton and Edinburgh and at the London School of Economics. She is the author of Kant, Critique and Politics (1996), International Political Theory: Re-thinking Ethics in a Global Era (1998), Hegel and Feminist Philosophy (2003), Time and World Politics: Thinking the Present (2008) and Global Ethics (2010). Her interests include international ethics and political theory, feminist theory and philosophy, and the thought of Kant and Hegel. She is engaged in long-term collaborative work (with Elizabeth Frazer) on conceptualisations of politics and violence in Western and anti-colonial political thought. From 2011 to 2015 she was the lead editor of the Review of International Studies .

Mark Lacy is senior lecturer in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religious Studies at Lancaster University, UK. His publications include The Geopolitics of American Insecurity (co-edited with Franois Debrix, 2008) and Security, Technology and Global Politics: Thinking with Virilio (2014).

Gregg Lambert is deans professor of the humanities at Syracuse University, USA, and principal investigator of the Central New York Humanities Corridor, an Andrew W. Mellon-funded research network between Cornell University, the University of Rochester, Syracuse University and the Liberal Arts Colleges of the New York Six Consortium. From 2008 to 2014 he was founding director of the Syracuse University Humanities Center. His publications include Report to the Academy (re: The New Conflict of the Faculties) (2001), The Non-philosophy of Gilles Deleuze (2002), The Return of the Baroque in Modern Culture (2005), On the New Baroque (2008), Whos Afraid of Deleuze and Guattari? (2008) and In Search of a New Image of Thought: Gilles Deleuze and Philosophical Expressionism (2012). More at www.gregglambert.com.

James Martel teaches political theory in the Department of Political Science at San Francisco State University, USA. He is the author, most recently, of The One and Only Law: Walter Benjamin and the Second Commandment (2014). He focuses on political theology, radical left politics, anarchism and critical race theory. His new book, The Misinterpellated Subject , will be published in 2017. He is currently working on a manuscript entitled The Misinterpellated Subject.

Marcelo Svirsky works at the School for Humanities and Social Inquiry at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He researches questions of social transformation and subjectivity, decolonisation, settlercolonial societies and political activism. He has published several articles in the journals Cultural Politics , Subjectivity , Intercultural Education , Deleuze Studies , Holy Land and Palestine Studies , and Settler Colonial Studies among others, and various books and edited collections: Deleuze and Political Activism (2010), ArabJewish Activism in IsraelPalestine (2012), Agamben and Colonialism (with Simone Bignall, 2012) and After Israel: Towards Cultural Transformation (2014, Zed Books). He recently edited a special issue of the Australian journal Settler Colonial Studies under the title Collaborative Struggles in Australia and IsraelPalestine.