MESAAS FACULTY

PUBLICATIONS

Cambridge University Press presents Reversing the Colonial Gaze by Hamid Dabashi

by mesaas | Jan 24, 2020 | Publications |

Exploring the furthest reaches of the globe, Persian travelers from Iran and India travelled across Russian and Ottoman territories, to Asia, Africa, North and South America, Europe and beyond. Remapping the world through their travelogues, Reversing the Colonial Gaze... Read more

The Disposition of Nature by Jennifer Wenzel

by mesaas | Jan 17, 2020 | Publications |

How do literature and other cultural forms shape how we imagine the planet, for better or worse? In this rich, original, and long awaited book, Jennifer Wenzel tackles the formal innovations, rhetorical appeals, and sociological imbrications of world literature that... Read more

Brill presents Ethiopia in Theory by Elleni Centime Zeleke

by mesaas | Nov 15, 2019 | Publications |

Between the years 1964 and 1974, Ethiopian post-secondary students studying at home, in Europe, and in North America produced a number of journals where they explored the relationship between social theory and social change within the project of building a socialist... Read more

I Am the People: Reflections on Popular Sovereignty Today by Partha Chatterjee

by mesaas | Nov 12, 2019 | Publications |

The forms of liberal government that emerged after World War II are in the midst of a profound crisis. In I Am the People, Partha Chatterjee reconsiders the concept of popular sovereignty in order to explain today’s dramatic outburst of movements claiming to speak for... Read more

Europe and its Shadows by Hamid Dabashi

by mesaas | Oct 29, 2019 | Publications |

Europe has long imagined itself as the centre of the universe, although its precise geographical, cultural and social terrains have always been amorphous. Exploring the fear and fascination associated with the continent as an allegory, Hamid Dabashi considers Europe... Read more

Reforming Modernity by Wael Hallaq

by mesaas | Oct 21, 2019 | Publications |

Reforming Modernity is a sweeping intellectual history and philosophical reflection built around the work of the Morocco-based philosopher Abdurrahman Taha, one of the most significant philosophers in the Islamic world since the colonial era. Wael B. Hallaq contends... Read more