selected scholarly activity
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book reviews
- Define and Rule: Native as Political Identity. By Mahmood Mamdani. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012. 168p. $29.95.. Ed. 13. 2015
- Review of Divide and Rule: Native as Political Identity by Mahmood Mamdani. Ed. 15. 2015
- Book Review: Dignity in Adversity: Human Rights in Troubled Times. Ed. 41. 2013
- Non-, often -anti,” review of Miguel Abensour, Democracy against the State: Marx and the Machiavellian Moment. Ed. July-August 2012. 2012
- Omid A. Payrow Shabani, ed. Multiculturalism and Law: A Critical Debate. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2007, xiv + 338 p.. Ed. 25. 2010
- Hatred of Democracy by Jacques Rancière. Ed. 17. 2010
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books
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chapters
- Radical cosmopolitanism and the tradition of insurgent universality. 21-29. 2018
- Populism and Cosmopolitanism. 644-660. 2017
- Utopia and Politics. ix-xxxiv. 2017
- Democracy and Its Conditions: Étienne Balibar and the Contribution of Marxism to Radical Democracy. 210-233. 2015
- Postcolonialism and Critical Theory
- Radical Cosmopolitanism: A Modern Tradition
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journal articles
- Jacobinism. Krisis. 89-92. 2018
- Lumpenproletariat. Krisis. 102-105. 2018
- Hans Lindahl’s Fault Lines of Globalization. Contemporary Political Theory. 16:248-268. 2017
- Cosmopolitanism from Below: Universalism as Contestation. Critical Horizons. 17:66-78. 2016
- The Revolutionary Origins of Human Rights: History, Politics, Practice. Zeitschrift für Menschenrechte. 1/2015:98-118. 2015
- Rights, Norms, and Politics: The Case of German Citizenship Reform. Social Research. 77:353-382. 2010
- Rights, Norms, and Politics: The Case of German Citizenship Reform. Social Research. 77:353-382. 2010
- What Is a “Right to Have Rights”? Three Images of the Politics of Human Rights. American Political Science Review. 102:401-416. 2008
- The Politics of Claude Lefort’s Political: Between Liberalism and Radical Democracy. Thesis Eleven 87. 33-50. 2006
- Can Universalism Still Be Radical? Alain Badiou’s Politics of Truth. Constellations. 12:561-573. 2005
- Response to Lawrence Blum. Constellations 5. 1:69-73. 1998
- Limits of Law, Limits of Legal Theory. Contemporary Political Theory. 16:257-262.
- Quem é 'O Povo'? Sobre o Sujeito Impossível da Democracia. Direito, Estado e Sociedade.
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presentations
- Migration Crisis as Crisis of the Political 2017
- Refugees, Migration, and the Limits of Politics 2017
- Politicizing Critique or Criticizing Politics? 2017
- The Historical Significance of the Question of the Political 2016
- Should We Search for ‘the Political’? 2016
- Edges of Citizenship, Frontiers of the Political: Migrants, Refugees, and Displaced People 2016
- Refugees, Migrants and Cosmopolitics 2016
- What Stands between Critical Theory and a Plausible Claim to Universality: Reason? Progress? Humanity? 2016
- Does Critical Theory Need a ‘Political Turn’? 2015
- Universalism after Postcolonialism: (De)Provincializing Critical Theory 2015
- “What We Mean When We Talk about ‘The Political’ 2015
- (De)Provincializing Critical Theory 2015
- Radical Cosmopolitics 2015
- Human Rights – How Revolutionary? 2015
- Universalism in Postcolonial Times: Legislation, Translation, Insurrection 2015
- Arendt’s Politicism and the Revolutionary Conception of Human Rights 2015
- Revolution as Test of the Political and Mediation between Human Rights and Democracy 2014
- Human Rights and Revolution 2014
- Rethinking Political Cosmopolitanism 2014
- Counter-globalization between Dissent and Constitution 2014
- Radical Cosmopolitics 2014
- Cosmopolitanism from Below: Toward a Democratic Universalism 2013
- Cosmopolitanism from Below: Toward a Democratic Universalism 2013
- Cosmopolitanism from Below: Toward a Democratic Universalism 2013
- Liberal Internationalism between Utopia and Apology: Kant and the Dilemmas of Practical Cosmopolitanism 2013
- Radical Cosmopolitics 2013
- What Is a ‘Realistic’ Approach to the History and Prospects of Human Rights? 2013
- Politics and Its Others: What Is at Stake in Defining ‘the Political 2013
- Film and Revolution 2012
- Politics as the Recognition of Essential Contingency 2012
- “La pensée de Claude Lefort dans le context du retour contemporain au politique 2011
- “Governmentality as Critique of Political Economy 2011
- Who Is ‘The People’? On the Impossible Subject of Democracy 2010
- ‘The People’ as Principle of Representation and Contestation 2010
- Learning from Perpetual Peace: Kant and the Dilemmas of Cosmopolitanism 2010
- Cosmopolitanism After Its Critique: Why Still Universalism? 2010
- Politics and Its Conditions 2010
- On the Supposed Tension between Freedom and Equality: Étienne Balibar’s Égaliberté 2009
- Between Anthropology and Universal History: Kant on Difference and Progress 2009
- The Specificity of Cultural Claims in Politics 2009
- How (and how not) to Defend Radical Democracy 2008
- On the Uses and Disadvantages of Culture for Politics 2008
- Participation and Democratization: The Unstable ‘People’ of Democratic Practice 2008
- Democracy as Norm, Democracy as Process 2008