Commitment and Complicity in Cultural Theory and Practice
Editors: Firat, B., Mul, S.D., Wichelen, S.V., De Mul, S., Van Wichelen, S. (Eds.)
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- About this book
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An international line-up of scholars examines the role of the intellectual in the twenty-first century, looking at the gap between contemporary cultural theory and cultural practice, and asking whether knowledge and methodologies in the humanities can intervene in everyday politics and vice-versa.
- About the authors
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SARA AHMED is Professor of Race and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK MIEKE BAL is Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Professor (KNAW), based at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands ELLEKE BOEHMER is the Professor of World Literature in English at the University of Oxford, UK TIMOTHY BRENNAN is Professor at the Departments of English and Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA REY CHOW is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Brown University, USA OCTAVI COMERON is an artist and also a teacher at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Barcelona, Spain FIONA PROBYN-RAPSEY is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia ANDREA TETI is a Lecturer at the Department of International Relations at the University of Aberdeen, UK
- Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Introduction: Commitment and Complicity
Pages 1-20
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Commitment as a Nonperformative
Pages 23-44
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Commitment or Commitment-Kitsch? Rethinking the ‘Woman Question’, Agency, and Feminist Politics
Pages 45-63
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‘Human’ in the Age of Disposable People: The Ambiguous Import of Kinship and Education in Blind Shaft
Pages 64-77
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The Middle East and the Disciplinary (Re)Production of Knowledge
Pages 81-101
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Commitment and Complicity in Cultural Theory and Practice
- Editors
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- B. Firat
- S. De Mul
- S. Van Wichelen
- Sarah De Mul
- Sonja Van Wichelen
- Copyright
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
- eBook ISBN
- 978-0-230-23696-7
- DOI
- 10.1057/9780230236967
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-230-22195-6
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-30743-2
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- IX, 197
- Number of Illustrations
- 3 b/w illustrations
- Topics
