Jewish Political Thought, Dissent, Authority, Conscience, Religion and Politics, Politics of Memory, Post-Colonial Theory (Francophone), Weaving, Textiles, and Craft
History of political thought, contemporary political theory, democratic theory, political economy, modernity.
Selected Publications
2024 “Empire and Radical International Thought,” co-edited with Alina Sajed, Special Issue of South Atlantic Quarterly https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-11235551
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
2023 “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) https://doi.org/10.1057/s41311-023-00436-w
2022 “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) https://doi.org/10.5195/jffp.2022.1010
2022 "Infrastructures of Decolonization: Frantz Fanon and Scales of Worldmaking” Political Theory https://doi.org/10.1177/00905917211009152
2022 “Agricultural Infrastructures: Race, Land, and Statecraft in Turkey,” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758221124139
2020 “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 http://doi.org/10.5040/9781350134690.0025
2020 “James Baldwin, Here and Elsewhere” (Review of Eddie Glaude’s Begin Again) Public Books. https://www.publicbooks.org/james-baldwin-here-and-elsewhere/
2018 “Tensions, terrors, tenderness: James Baldwin’s Politics of Comparison,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 38 (3) http://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-7208834
2018 Hotels and Highways: The Construction of Modernization Theory in Cold War Turkey, Stanford University Press https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=28678
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alexander.livingston@cornell.edu
University of Toronto, Ph.D., 2010