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Ashley Dawson

Ph.D. Columbia University
Professor, College of Staten Island. English

Email:adawson@gc.cuny.edu

 

 

A central interest of mine is the experience and literature of migration, including movement from liberated nations to the former imperial center and from rural areas to the mega-cities of the global South.  I have also worked recently on global media cultures and on contemporary discourses of U.S. imperialism.

Selected Publications:

  • Mongrel Nation: Diasporic Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Britain (University of Michigan Press, 2007).
  • Co-editor with Omar Dahbour, Heather Gautney, and Neil Smith, The State, Democracy, and the Struggle for Global Justice (Routledge, 2009).
  • Co-editor with Malini Johar Schueller, Dangerous Professors: Academic Freedom and the National Security Campus (University of Michigan Press, 2009).
  • Co-editor with Malini Johar Schueller, special issue on "The Perils of Academic Freedom," Social Text 90 (Summer 2007).
  • Co-editor with Brent Hayes Edwards, special issue on "Global Cities of the South," Social Text 81 (Winter 2004).
  • "Surplus City: Self-Fashioning, Structural Adjustment, and Urban Insurrection in Chris Abani's Graceland," Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies (2009).
  • "The Rise of the Black Internationale: Anti-Imperialist Activism and Aesthetics in Britain during the 1930s," Atlantic Studies (2009).
  • "NYC: Academic Labor Town?" with Penny Lewis, in The University Against Itself: The NYU Strike and the Future of the Academic Workplace, eds., Monika Krause, Mary Nolan, Mike Palm, and Andrew Ross (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2008).
  • "MOUT Camp: The U.S. Military Prepares for a Century of Urban Warfare," Social Text (Summer 2007).
  • "Another University is Possible: Academic Labor, the Ideology of Scarcity, and the Fight for Workplace Democracy," Workplace (Spring 2007).
  • "Greening the Campus: Politics and Pedagogy of the Student Environmental Movement," Radical Teacher (March 2007).
  • "Linton Kwesi Johnson's Dub Poetry and the Political Aesthetics of Carnival," Small Axe 21 (2006).
  • "The Return of Limits: Peak Oil and the Fate of American Suburbia," New Politics 11.2 (Fall 2006).
  • "'Love Music, Hate Racism': The Cultural Politics of the Rock Against Racism Campaigns, 1976-1981," Postmodern Culture, http://www.iath.virginia.edu/pmc, 16.1 (September 2005).
  • "Documenting the Trauma of Apartheid: Long Night's Journey into Day and South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission," Screen 46.4 (Winter 2005).