- Nationality
- 🇮🇹 Italy
- Affiliation
- Al-Quds Bard College for Arts and Sciences, Al-Quds University, Palestine
- Field of study
- Philosophy, Religion and Theology
- Residencies at STIAS
- 2020 2nd Semester
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publication
Translation as Healing
What is the relationship between decolonization and translation in processes of knowledge and cultural production? This paper addresses this question through the work of Frantz Fanon with a view to illuminating the relevance of a complex understanding of translation to broad processes of decolonization.
publication
Beyond the Secular: Jacques Derrida and the Theological-Political Complex
Cassatella, Andrea. 2023. Beyond the Secular: Jacques Derrida and the Theological-Political Complex. State University of New York Press.
publication
Agency and Violence in Frantz Fanon’s Psychiatric Writing
Cassatella, A. 2025. Agency and Violence in Frantz Fanon’s Psychiatric Writings. African Studies, 84(3), 274–288.
publication
Psychic life and decolonization
Cassatella, A. 2026. Psychic life and decolonization. Safundi, 1–26.
public lecture / seminar
Beyond the secular: Jacques Derrida and the theologico-political complex - Fellows' seminar by Andrea Cassatella
The book examines the contemporary relationship between religion and politics through the work of Jacques Derrida in order to interrogate some insufficiently analysed foundations of modern secular discourse, said STIAS fellow Andrea Cassatella of the Columbia Global Centers, Amman.