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  • Contributors

Alexander D. Barder is currently a PhD student in the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University.

Marc G. Doucet is an associate professor in the department of political science at Saint Mary’s University, Halifax. He earned his PhD from the University of Ottawa in 2000. His research interests include international relations theory, democratic theory and global social movements. He can be reached at marc.doucet@smu.ca

Thomas M. Hawley teaches political theory at Eastern Washington University in Cheney, WA. He is the author of The Remains of War: Bodies, Politics, and the Search for American Soldiers Unaccounted for in Southeast Asia (Duke University Press, 2005).

Steven Johnston teaches political theory at the University of South Florida . He is author of The Truth about Patriotism and Encountering Tragedy: Rousseau and the Project of Democratic Order. He can be reached at sjohnsto@cas.usf.edu.

Stefan Mattessich is a Lecturer in American literature at the University of Sydney, Australia. He published a monograph on Thomas Pynchon, Lines of Flight, in 2002, and he is currently writing a book on cultural representations of crisis in the public sphere, provisionally entitled Disappearing Acts. He can be reached at stefan22@verizon.net.

Susan McManus is Lecturer in Political Theory in the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy at Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland . She is currently developing a book-length project provisionally titled, Theorizing Affect: Subjectivity, Agency, Politics. She can be reached at s.mcmanus@qub.ac.uk.

Sam McLean is currently teaching political thought at Queen Mary, University of London. His main research interest is with twentieth century French and German philosophy. He is currently writing two articles for publication: Radical phenomenologies: Foucault and Heidegger and Anarchistic Resistance: the Potentiality of Political Becoming. Sam can be contacted at sam-mclean@hotmail.co.uk.

Laurie E. Naranch teaches political theory, feminist theory, film and politics, and human rights in the Department of Political Science, Siena College. She is currently working on a project on the politics of critique and affect and a larger project on autonomy “after” humanism. She can be reached at lnaranch@siena.edu.

J. Paul Narkunas has taught at the Pratt Institute, Princeton University, and is now Assistant Professor in the Department of English at John Jay College, City University of New York. He has published articles in Modern Fiction Studies, Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory, and in several collections. He is presently completing two manuscripts, tentatively entitled Flotsam and Jetsam in Global Capital Flows: English and the Future of Literature and The Ahuman: Thinking Beyond the Global Human.

Carlos Pessoa received his PhD at Essex University in 2004. He has conducted research on the Brazilian Workers’ Party and social movements in Brazil. His latest work includes topics covering the concept hegemony and the Left in Latin America. He currently teaches in the Department of Political Science at Saint Mary’s University. He can be reached at carlos.pessoa@smu.ca

Sanford Schram teaches social policy and social theory in the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research at Bryn Mawr College. He is the author a number of books including Welfare Discipline: Discourse, Governance, and Globalization (Temple University Press, 2006), and Words of Welfare: The Poverty of Social Science and the Social Science of Poverty (University of Minnesota Press, 1995), which won the Michael Harrington Award from the American Political Science Association. His research has appeared in the American Political Science Review, American Sociological Review, Politics & Society, Theory & Event and numerous other journals. He is currently completing a co-authored book tentatively entitled The New Poverty Governance: Race, Punishment, and the Brave New World of Workfare.

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