Hamid Dabashi

Broschiertes Buch

The Emperor Is Naked

On the Inevitable Demise of the Nation-State

Beschreibung

Declares the end of the nation state as a political proposition predicting the dissolution of the state as an organizing framer of politics.

Autor

Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Born in Iran, he received a dual Ph.D. in the sociology of culture and Islamic studies from the University of Pennsylvania, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University. Dabashi has written and edited many books, including Iran, the Green Movement and the USA and The Arab Spring, as well as numerous chapters, essays, articles and book reviews. He is an internationally renowned cultural critic, whose writings have been translated into numerous languages. Dabashi has been a columnist for the Egyptian Al-Ahram Weekly for over a decade, and is a regular contributor to Al Jazeera and CNN. He has been a committed teacher for nearly three decades and is also a public speaker, a current affairs essayist, a staunch anti-war activist and the founder of Dreams of a Nation. He has four children and lives in New York with his wife, the Iranian-Swedish feminist scholar and photographer Golbarg Bashi.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 209mm x 135mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 300g
• ISBN-13: 9781786995650
• ISBN-10: 1786995654
• Artikelnr.: 58378321