Category: Publications

  Our co-edited volume on governmentality and security, Gouvernementalität und Sicherheit (Transcript Verlag, 2008) is now available in open-access.

My article The Siege of Gaza: Spatial Violence, Humanitarian Strategies, and the Biopolitics of Punishment [behind paywall] is now available from Constellations.

June 1, 2015: Shipwrecked Sovereignty! Joshua Chambers-Letson and I have a co-authored article in the current issue of Political Theory. The piece is about a legal and political controversy concerning a Napoleonic shipwreck that was recently salvaged off the Iberian peninsula by a private corporation. On board of  the Spanish warship was the most valuable…

October 15, 2014: My article Debating Violence on a Desert Island: Engels, Dühring and Robinson Crusoe [behind paywall] is now officially out in Contemporary Political Theory.  Here is the abstract: Ever since the publication in 1719 of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, the novel’s eponymous protagonist has had a pervasive presence in the modern social and cultural imaginary, giving…

September 10, 2013: My article Debating Violence on a Desert Island: Engels, Dühring and Robinson Crusoe [behind paywall] has been published by Contemporary Political Theory. While it is not yet out in print, it is available online as part of CPT’s Advance Online Publication. The article is about Friedrich Engels’s theory of violence and the use…

August 13, 2013: Just out from Fordham University Press: Second Nature: Rethinking the Natural through Politics, a new volume edited by Crina Archer, Laura Ephraim, and Lida Maxwell. I have an essay in the book titled “Necessity and Fortune: Machiavelli’s Politics of Nature”.