Project
The Power of Movement: Saharan perspectives on politics
Northwest Africa has recently been the site of a large variety of political movements.
Project
Freedom Between Order and Chaos: Towards an Indian Theory of Freedom
Any serious study of the Indic ideas of freedom must begin with acknowledging the centrality accorded to order in a polity.
Publication
World of the Right
Abrahamsen, R., Drolet, J.-F., Williams, M. C., Vucetic, S., Narita, K., & Gheciu, A. 2024. World of the Right. Cambridge University Pre...
Publication
Tolerance from Below: Unsettling the Sovereign Subject
Simpson, David. 2022. Tolerance from Below: Unsettling the Sovereign Subject. Boundary 2, 49(2), 271–294. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-9...
Publication
Gandhi and the Gender of Nonviolent Resistance
Du Toit, Louise. 2022. Gandhi and the Gender of Nonviolent Resistance. Religions, 13(467), 1–18. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13050467
Publication
The Spirit of Democracy
Näsström, Sofia. 2021. The Spirit of Democracy. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192898869.001.0001
Publication
Citizenship in a Globlised World
Hobden, Christine. 2021. Citizenship in a Globlised World. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Citizenship-in-a-Globalised-World/Hobden/p/b...
Project
The Dialectics of Emancipation and Africa: political theory and political practice
Beginning from the understanding that it is imperative today to develop new concepts for the thinking of an emancipatory politics on the African continent (Fanon), this book develops and expands into new empirical domains the arguments first enunciated in my treatise on political theory Thinking Freedom in Africa: toward a theory of emancipatory politics which was awarded the Frantz Fanon Prize in 2017.
Publication
Disclosing New Political Forms: Symposium on Adom Getachew, Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination
Kevin Olson, Minkah Makalani, Sundhya Pahuja and Adom Getachew. 2020. Disclosing New Political Forms: Symposium on Adom Getachew, Worldmakin...
Project
Directorial Authority and the Formation of the Modern Executive. The Governance of the African Chartered Companies
This is a proposal that seeks to advance a new interpretation of the history of the formation of ideas and institutions of the Executive branch of government.
Publication
Vryheid van spraak en die ‘etiese aktiwiteit van denke’
Karin van Marle. 2009. Vryheid van spraak en die ‘etiese aktiwiteit van denke’. Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe
Publication
Democracy Under Stress: The global crisis and beyond? SUNMedIA Press
Ursula J van Beek (editor). 2012. Democracy Under Stress: The global crisis and beyond? SUNMedIA Press.
Publication
Theses on the New Offentlichkeit
Rosalind C. Morris. 2013. Theses on the New Offentlichkeit. Grey Room, 51, 94-111.
Publication
From Marx to Gramsci to Us: Laboratory to Prison, and Back
Beilharz, Peter. 2016. From Marx to Gramsci to Us: Laboratory to Prison, and Back. Thesis Eleven 132(1):77–86. http://the.sagepub.com/cgi/do...
Publication
Separation of Powers in African Constitutionalism
Fombad, Charles M, ed. 2016. Separation of Powers in African Constitutionalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press. http://ndl.ethernet.edu.et/...
Publication
Exploitation, Commodification and Inequality
Phillips, Anne. 2017. Exploitation, Commodification and Inequality. Pp. 99–118 in Exploitation: From Practice to Theory, edited by M. Deveau...
Publication
States of Terror
Simpson, David. 2019. States of Terror. University of Chicago Press. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226600369.001.0001
Publication
STIAS Series Volume 2: Democracy Under Stress: The global crisis and beyond
Democracy Under Stress: The global crisis and beyond Ursula J van Beek and Edmund Wnuk-Lipinski (Editors) SUN PRESS (2012, 227 pp) ISBN: 9...
Project
Towards a Politics of Singularity, or Beyond Identity Politics
Cutting across the boundaries of recent political theory, psychoanalysis, and philosophy, this project aims to show that the link between one human being and another, the social bond, consists of a traumatic encounter.
Project
Political culture in Africa and post-communist Europe: towards explaining the logic of democratic underdevelopment
The strategic aim is to prepare a book for publication that describes and explains the vicissitudes of democracy and underdevelopment in Africa and Eastern Europe by method of comparison.
Project
Crime and Citizenship
Witnessing the large-scale displacement and conditions of statelessness in the wake of the Second World War, political theorist Hannah Arendt coined the evocative phrase the right to have rights, arguing that the fundamental right, from which all other rights sprung, was the right to membership of a political community.
Project
The public sphere in African political thought
This research project aim is to contribute to the quest for a viable political philosophy for contemporary Africa.
Project
States of Terror: History, Theory, Literature
After 9/11 The USA declared war on an emotion.
Project
Alienation, protest and the idea of a manifesto
The principal aim of this period of writing and research is to complete a chapter from a short book, tentatively entitled Marx@Marikana: Reading Marx in South Africa today.
Project
Conceptafrica
The target and at the same time the tool of the project is the conceptualisations and imaginations of the social and the economic in various African languages.
