Edited Volumes & Special Issues

Refugees Now: Rethinking Borders, Hospitality, and Citizenship

EDITED BY KELLY OLIVER; LISA M. MADURA AND SABEEN AHMED

Rowman & Littlefield, 2019

This important new book examines the status of refugees from a philosophical perspective. The contributors explore the conditions faced by refugees and clarify the conceptual, practical, and ethical issues confronting the contemporary global community with respect to refugees. The book takes up topics ranging from practical matters, such as the social and political production of refugees, refugee status and the tension between citizen rights and human rights, and the handling of detention and deportation, to more conceptual and theoretical concerns, such as the ideology, rhetoric, and propaganda that sustain systems of exclusion and expulsion, to the ethical dimensions that invoke hospitality and transnational responsibility. Ideal for students and scholars in Political and Social Philosophy and Migration Studies more broadly, the book provides a critical commentary on material responses to contemporary refugee crises as a means of opening pathways to more pointed assessments of both the political and ideological underpinnings of statelessness.

Guest Editor, Philosophy Today–Special Issue: Violent Democracies, vol. 67, no. 1 (2023)

Contributed Chapters

“Critiquing Agamben’s Refugee: The Ontological Decolonization of Homo Sacer,” in Refugees Now: Rethinking Borders, Hospitality, and Citizenship, eds. Kelly Oliver, Lisa M. Madura, and Sabeen Ahmed (London: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2019)

Peer-Reviewed Articles

“Provocations on the Liberal Onto-Epistemology of Fascism: An Introduction to the Special Issue,” Philosophy Today 67, no. 1 (2023): 1–19

“Power In/And the University: A Roundtable Discussion on Anti-colonial Praxis in Academia,” co-edited with Adam Burgos, George Fourlas, and John Harfouch, Philosophy Today 67, no. 1 (2023): 207–2022

“Universality, Resistance, and the Struggle for Recognition: Challenging the Inevitability of Hegel’s Rabble,” Philosophical Journal of Conflict & Violence IV, no. 1 (2020): 74–91

“(Un)Exceptional Trauma, Existential Insecurity, and Anxieties of Modern Subjecthood: A Phenomenological Analysis of Arbitrary Sovereign Violence,” Puncta: Journal of Critical Phenomenology 2, no. 1 (2019): 1–18

“From Death Penalty to Thanatopolitics: Notes Towards a Trinitarian Theory of Governmentality,” Philosophy Today 63, no. 3 (2019): 293–314

“From Threat to Walking Corpse: Spatial Disruption and the Phenomenology of ‘Living Under Drones’,” Theory & Event 21, no. 2 (2018): 382–410

“The Human and the Rights-Bearer: A Philosophico-Juridical Analysis of the ‘Refugee Problem,’” Giornale Critico di Storia delle Idee – Special Issue: On Human and Rights 2 (2018): 105–20

“Communism as Eudaimonia: An Aristotelian Reading of Human Emancipation,” International Journal of Philosophy and Social Values (Special Issue: The 200^th Anniversary of Marx’s Birth) 2 (2018): 31–48

“The Genesis of Secular Politics in Medieval Philosophy: The King of Averroes and the Emperor of Dante,” Labyrinth: An International Journal for Philosophy, Value Theory, and Sociocultural Hermeneutics (Special Issue: Praxis, Virtues, and Values: The Legacies of Aristotle) 18, no. 2 (2016): 209–31