Research
Isaac Kamola

 

 

Dissertation:

Title: Producing the Global Imaginary: Academic Knowledge, Globalization and the Making of the World

Defense Date: December 18, 2009

Abstract:

Committee:
Bud Duvall (Advisor), Professor & Department Chair, Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota
Michael Barnett, Professor & Stassen Chair of International Affairs, Humphrey School, University of Minnesota
Lisa Disch, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Michigan
Premesh Lalu, Associate Professor of History & Director of the Programme on the Study of the Humanities in Africa, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
Antonio Vasquez-Arroyo, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota

Complete dissertation draft.

Publications:

“Reading ‘the Global’ in the Absence of Africa” in Claiming International Relations: Worlding Beyond the West, Arlene Tickner, David L. Blaney & Ole Waever (eds), Routledge, forthcoming, expected: 2010.

“Creating Commons: Divided Governance, Participatory Management, and Struggles Against the Enclosure of the University” (with Eli Meyerhoff) in Polygraph, 21 (2009), 15-37. (peer reviewed)

"Coffee and Genocide: A Political Economy of Violence in Rwanda" in Transition: An International Review, 99 (2008), 54-70. (invited)

“The Global Coffee Economy and the Production of Genocide in Rwanda” in Third World Quarterly,
April 2007 28(3), pp571-592. (peer reviewed)

Review of: Atilio A. Boron, Empire and Imperialism: A Critical Reading of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri (Zed Books, 2005). In Millennium: Journal of International Studies, September 2007 35(3), 767- 769.

Review of: Isabelle Duyvesteyn, Clausewitz and African War: Politics and Strategy in Liberia and Somalia (Frank Cass, 2005). In Millennium: Journal of International Studies, August 2006 34(3), 987-989.

Current Projects:
“Somali Piracy and the Crisis of Peacebuilding” (invited to present at Globalization, Social Movements, and Peacebuilding Workshop: University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, October 29-31, 2009)

“Critical Tensions: Situating ‘Critical IR Theory’ Within a Political Economy of Higher Education,” with Raymond Duvall (paper for the 2010 International Studies Association conference, New Orleans)

Research Interests:
Globalization; IR theory; international political economy; African politics; political economy of conflict in Africa; political economy of higher education; African postcolonial theory.

Research Statement (PDF)

 

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