Outputs (69)
Transnational academic capitalism in the Arab Gulf:balancing global and local, public and private, capitals (2015)
Journal Article
This article contributes to the emerging theoretical construct of what has been called ‘transnational academic capitalism’, characterised by the blurring of traditional boundaries between public, private, local, regional and international, and betwee... Read More about Transnational academic capitalism in the Arab Gulf:balancing global and local, public and private, capitals.
Transcendental Unity of Apperception and Non-reflective Consciousness of Self (2015)
Book Chapter
In this chapter, I would like to defend the claim of a deep similarity between Kant’s transcendental unity of apperception and Sartre’s non-reflective consciousness of self.2 The claim is not simply of historical interest, although this by itself I t... Read More about Transcendental Unity of Apperception and Non-reflective Consciousness of Self.
Mining morals, muck and Akan gold in New York City (2015)
Journal Article
Among Akan spirit preachers at shrines in New York, gold and gold weights are at the centre of the creation of new moral topographies in a fluid and contested context. In a get-rich-quick New York marketplace, the preachers appeal to an understanding... Read More about Mining morals, muck and Akan gold in New York City.
Linking Mini-Publics to the Deliberative System: A Research Agenda (2015)
Journal Article
The systemic turn in deliberative democratic theory has shifted the focus away from seeking to design separate, internally deliberative ‘mini-publics’ and towards a new appreciation of their external, systemic quality. Yet, so far, such accounts have... Read More about Linking Mini-Publics to the Deliberative System: A Research Agenda.
The fantasy of congruency: the Abbe Sieyes and the ‘nation-state’ problematique revisited (2015)
Journal Article
This paper offers an alternative reading of the Abbé Sieyès and the modern ‘nation-state’ problématique. I argue that the subject/object that is constituted in the early days of modernity is the incomplete society: an impossible-possibility ideal of... Read More about The fantasy of congruency: the Abbe Sieyes and the ‘nation-state’ problematique revisited.
The Courts: Criminal Trials as Strategic Arenas (2015)
Book Chapter
In this chapter we analyze cases where social movement activists are prosecuted in the courts for protest actions. The courthouse is a significant arena for social movement strategy, a symbolic site for the arbitration of collective disputes, the leg... Read More about The Courts: Criminal Trials as Strategic Arenas.
Making sense of the protests in Turkey (and Brazil): contesting neo-liberal urbanism in ‘Rebel Cities’ (2015)
Journal Article
The article is organised in five parts: first, we offer a brief overview of the protests and the concept of the ‘right to the city’; second, we discuss arguments about the role of democracy and representation, and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip... Read More about Making sense of the protests in Turkey (and Brazil): contesting neo-liberal urbanism in ‘Rebel Cities’.
The Negative Abyss Surface, Depth, and Violence in Virilio and Stiegler (2015)
Journal Article
This article explores what one might call the dystopia of contemporary screen-based culture through a discussion of the work of Paul Virilio and Bernard Stiegler. Centrally, it explains that the screen might be seen as a negative abyss, where absolut... Read More about The Negative Abyss Surface, Depth, and Violence in Virilio and Stiegler.
Realism (2015)
Book Chapter
This chapter addresses the mutual neglect that has existed between realism and the study of international environmental politics. It argues that the emergence of climate issues on the international agenda alters this situation. The implications of th... Read More about Realism.