Contributing editors

• Ackbar Abbas

  Ackbar Abbas is a professor of comparative literature at University of California, Irivine. His research interests include globalization, Hong Kong and Chinese culture, architecture, cinema, postcolonialism, and critical theory.

• Dipesh Chakrabarty

  University of Chicago

  Dipesh Chakrabarty is the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History and South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, where he is also a Faculty Fellow of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory. He is…

• Éric Fassin

  École Normale Supérieure

  Éric Fassin is a sociologist at École normale supérieure in Paris. His work focuses on sexual and racial politics and their intersections in current immigration policies from a comparative perspective, in national as well as transnational terms. He is…

• Beatriz Jaguaribe

  Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

  Beatriz Jaguaribe is a professor in the School of Communications at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She is the author of Quem você pensa que ela é (1994), Fins de século: Cidade e cultura no Rio de Janeiro (1998), Mapa do Maravilhoso do Rio…

• Achille Mbembe

  Achille Mbembe is a research professor in history and politics at the University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is also co-convenor of the Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism (JWTC) and a visiting professor at Duke…

• Charles Taylor

  McGill University

  Charles Taylor is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at McGill University. He is the author of numerous articles and books including, most recently, A Secular Age (2007). He is currently working on a book with Hubert Dreyfus, tentatively entitled Retri…