Begüm Adalet
Assistant Professor
Publications
2024 “An Insurgent Mood: Politics of Home in Lorraine Hansberry’s Writings,” American Political Science Review https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055424000157
2024 “An Empire of Development: American Political Thought in Transnational Perspective” American Political Science Review https://doi.org/10.1017/S000305542400025X
Forthcoming, “Towards a Radical International Thought: An Introduction,” with Alina Sajed, South Atlantic Quarterly
Forthcoming, “Empire and Radical International Thought,” co-edited with Alina Sajed, Special Issue of South Atlantic Quarterly
- “W. E. B. Du Bois and transnationalism: a conversation” International Politics. Roundtable Discussion on Inés Valdez’s Transnational Cosmopolitanism: Kant, Du Bois, and Justice as a Political Craft, (with Charisse Burden-Stelly, Adam Dahl, Katrin Flikschuh, Inés Valdez), 2023
- “Erupting Out of the ‘Zone of Non-Being’: The Cunning of Solidarity.” Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy 30(1): 79-81. Symposium on Geo Maher’s Anticolonial Eruptions: Racial Hubris and the Cunning of Resistance (with responses from Henry Aoki, Kevin Bruyneel, Geo Maher, Althea Sircar, Anna Terwiel), 2022
- "Infrastructures of Decolonization: Frantz Fanon and Scales of Worldmaking” Political Theory, 2022
- “Agricultural Infrastructures: Race, Land, and Statecraft in Turkey,” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2022
- “Mediating the Kennedy Presidency: James Baldwin’s Decade in Turkey,” Globalizing the U.S. Presidency: Postcolonial Views of John F. Kennedy, ed. Cyrus Schayegh, Bloomsbury Series “New Approaches to International History,” 2020
- “James Baldwin, Here and Elsewhere” (Review of Eddie Glaude’s Begin Again) Public Books, 2020
- “Tensions, terrors, tenderness: James Baldwin’s Politics of Comparison,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 38 (3), December, 2018
- Hotels and Highways: The Construction of Modernization Theory in Cold War Turkey, Stanford University Press, 2018
- “It’s not yours if you can’t get there”: Mobility and State-making in Turkey. The Funambulist Magazine: Politics of Space and Bodies, 17, May-June issue on Weaponized Infrastructure, 2018
Departments and programs
Susan Buck-Morss
Jan Rock Zubrow ’77 Chair Emerita in Government
Diane S. Rubenstein
Professor Emerita
Alexander Livingston
Associate Professor
Publications
Books:
- James Tully: To Think and Act Differently (London: Routledge, 2022)
- Damn Great Empires! William James and the Politics of Pragmatism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016)
Selected Articles and Chapters:
- "Decarcerating Civil Disobedience: Punishment, Policing, and the Problem of Innocence," in Research Handbook on Liberalism, ed. Duncan Ivison (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming 2024)
- "In Extremis: The Wildness of William James," Contemporary Pragmatism 19, no. 1 (2022): 23-34
- "Nonviolence and the Coercive Turn," in The Cambridge Companion to Civil Disobedience, ed. William E. Scheuerman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), 254-279
- "Thinking with the Streets: Civil Disobedience between Theory and Practice," Contemporary Political Theory 19, no. 3 (2020): 539-544
- "Tough Love: The Political Theology of Civil Disobedience," Perspectives on Politics 18, no. 3 (2020): 851-866
- "Power for the Powerless: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Late Theory of Civil Disboedience," Journal of Politics 82, no. 2 (2020): 700-713
- "Fidelity to Truth: Gandhi and the Genealogy of Civil Disobedience," Political Theory 46, no. 4 (2018): 511-536
- “The Cost of Liberty: Sacrifice and Survival in Du Bois’s John Brown,” in A Political Companion to W.E.B. Du Bois, ed. Nick Bromell (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2018), pp. 207-240
- “Between Means and Ends: Reconstructing Coercion in Dewey’s Democratic Theory,” American Political Science Review 111, no. 3 (2017): 522-534
Education
University of Toronto, Ph.D., 2010
Departments and programs
Links
Jill Frank
President White Professor of History and Political Science and the Robert J. Katz Chair of the Department of Government
Departments and programs
Jason Frank
John L. Senior Professor of Government