The Borders of Justice

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Étienne balibar was born in 1942. He graduated at the Sorbonne in Paris and later earned his Ph.D. from the University of Nijmegen (Netherlands). He is now a professor emeritus of moral and political philosophy at the University of Paris 10–Nanterre and distinguished professor of humanities at the University of California–irvine. He is author or coauthor of Reading Capital (1965, with Louis Althusser); Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities (1991, with immanuel Wallerstein); Masses, Classes, Ideas (1994); The Philosophy of Marx (1995); Spinoza and Politics (1998); Politics and the Other Scene (2002); and We, the People of Europe? Reflections on Transnational Citizenship (2004). anirban das is on the faculty for cultural studies at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, and also teaches feminist theory as visiting professor for women’s studies programs. He originally graduated with a degree in medicine and later shifted to the humanities, earning a Ph.D. in philosophy. He has published essays on feminist theory, postcolonial theory, and the history of medical epistemology and has edited the first comprehensive volume on deconstruction in Bangla, Banglay Binirman/Abinirman (2007). He is also the author of academic monograph Toward a Politics of the (Im)Possible : The Body in Third World Feminisms (2010). Jean-louis halpérin was born in 1960. He earned his Ph.D. in law from the University Paris 2 in 1985. He was a professor at the University of Lyon from 1988 to 1998, a professor at the University of Burgundy in Dijon from 1998 to 2003, and dean of the law faculty there from 2000 to 2003. Since 2003 he has taught at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He is the author or coauthors of fifteen books of legal history in French. His book The French Civil Code was translated to English and published in 2006. He has also published papers in English about legal transplants, French law, and French legal science. Contributors 206 contributors sandro mezzadra was born in 1963. He is an associate professor of political theory in the Department of Politics, institutions, and History at the University of Bologna. He has been Eminent Research Fellow at the Centre for Cultural Research at the University of Western Sydney, Australia (2006–2008). He is most notably the author of Diritto di fuga: Migrazioni, cittadinanza, globalizzazione (2006) and La condizione postcoloniale: Storia e politica nel mondo globale (2008). His publications in English include “Citizen and Subject: A Postcolonial Constitution for the European Union?” Situations 1, no. 2 (2006); “Borders, Citizenship, War, Class: A Discussion with Étienne Balibar and Sandro Mezzadra,” New Formations, no. 58 (Summer 2006); and “Living in Transition: Toward a Heterolingual Theory of the Multitude,” in R. F. Calichman and J. N. Kim, eds., The Politics of Culture: Around the Work of Naoki Sakai (London: Routledge, 2010). francisco naishtat graduated at the Sorbonne (University of Paris 1), earned his Ph.D. from the University of Buenos Aires, and earned his habilitation à diriger des recherches (HDR) at the University of Paris 8 (Vincennes-Saint-Denis). He was program director at the Collège international de Philosophie from 2004 to 2010. He is now a researcher in contemporary philosophy at the Consejo Nacional de investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONiCET) in Argentina and head professor of philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires. He is the author of Action et langage: Des niveaux linguistiques de l’action aux forces illocutionnaires de la protestation (2010) and coauthor of Tomar la palabra : Estudios sobre protesta social y acción colectiva en la Argentina contemporánea (2006). He is also the author of “Sujet du politique, politiquement sujet,” Rue Descartes, no. 67 (2010); the paper “Les traces de la psychanalyse dans la théorie de la connaissance historique: Destin et délivrance dans les Passages benjaminiens” (2008); and “Revolution, Discontinuity and Progress in Kant,” in V. Rohden et al., eds., Recht und Frieden in der Philosophie Kants (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2008). brett neilson was born in 1963. He graduated from the University of Sydney and earned his Ph.D. from yale University. He is currently director of the Centre for Cultural Research at the University of Western Sydney. He is the author of Free Trade in the Bermuda Triangle . . . and Other Tales of Counterglobalization (2004). in addition to academic articles published in journals such as Theory, Culture and Society; Cultural Critique; and New Formations, he has written...