Contributors
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Roel Frakking is a doctoral candidate at the European University Institute in Florence. He holds a master’s degree in international relations in historical perspective from the University of Utrecht, where he graduated with distinction. His thesis dealt with the rise and fall of the Plantation Guard during the Indonesian War of Independence. His most recent publication, “‘Who Wants to Cover Everything, Covers Nothing’: The Organization of Indigenous Security Forces in Indonesia, 1945–50,” appeared in the Journal of Genocide Research in 2012. It analyzes how a multitude of Dutch-owned security forces precluded proper command and control in that context.
Greg Girard is a Canadian photographer who has spent much of his career in Asia, recording the physical and social transformations in some of its largest cities. His first book, City of Darkness: Life in Kowloon Walled City (Watermark, 1993), co-authored with Ian Lambot, documents the final years of the Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong. His second book, Phantom Shanghai (Magenta, 2007), examines the homes, buildings, streets, and neighborhoods unlikely to survive Shanghai’s vision of its own future. More recent titles include Hanoi Calling (Magenta, 2010) and In the Near Distance (Kominek, 2010), a collection of early work made on both sides of the Pacific.
Patrick William Kelly is a doctoral student in the department of history at the University of Chicago, where he is currently completing his dissertation on the centrality of the Americas in the rise of global human rights politics in the 1970s. His research has been supported by grants from the Social Science Research Council, Fulbright-Hays, and the University of Chicago’s Human Rights Program.
Laleh Khalili is professor of Middle East politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. She has authored Heroes and Martyrs of Palestine: The Politics of National Commemoration (Cambridge, 2007) and Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies (Stanford, 2013) and is co-editor, with Jillian Schwedler, of Policing and Prisons in the Middle East: Formations of Coercion (Hurst/Oxford, 2008). Her Time in the Shadows was the winner of the Susan Strange Best Book Prize of the British International Studies Association and the 2014 best book award of the International Political Sociology section of the ISA.
Johanna Siméant is professor of political science at the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. Her first book, La cause des sans-papiers (PFNSP, 1998), examines undocumented migrants’ mobilizations and their humanitarian supporters in France. She has written, with Pascal Dauvin, Le travail humanitaire (Sciences Po, 2002); published a book on hunger strikes; co-edited a book on extreme crises; and has just published a book on protest and mobilization in Mali, Contester au Mali (Karthala, [End Page 453] 2014). She has published in English in Social Movement Studies, Journal of World Systems Research, and the Review of International Political Economy.
Peter Slezkine is a doctoral student in the department of history at Columbia University. His interests include the rise of the human rights movement, the symbolic status of political prisoners as targets of international activism, and the reconceptualization of the Cold War in the 1970s.
Jeffrey Wasserstrom is Chancellor’s Professor of History at the University of California–Irvine and editor of the Journal of Asian Studies. He lived in Shanghai for a year in the 1980s and has written two books focusing on the city: Student Protests in Twentieth-Century China: The View from Shanghai (Stanford, 1991) and Global Shanghai, 1850–2010 (Routledge, 2009). His most recent book is China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know (2nd ed., Oxford, 2013). In addition to his academic publications, he regularly contributes commentaries and reviews to newspapers, magazines, blogs, and journals of opinion.
Jessica Whyte is senior lecturer in cultural and social analysis at the University of Western Sydney. She has published widely on theories of sovereignty and biopolitics, critical legal theory, critiques of human rights, and contemporary continental philosophy. She is the author of Catastrophe and Redemption: The Political Thought of Giorgio Agamben (SUNY, 2013). Her current research is on the emergence of antistatist critiques of sovereignty in the 1970s and their transformation into legitimizing discourses for state militarism. [End...
