Title
Associate Professor

Department
Dept of Rhetoric


Faculty URL
http://rhetoric.berkeley.edu/faculty-profile/samera-esmeir-1

Email
samera@berkeley.edu

Phone
(510) 642-2173


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Research Expertise and Interest
critical theory, Middle Eastern Studies, Legal and political thought, law and society, legal histories, colonialism and post-colonialism

Research Description
Samera Esmeir is currently writing?a second book,?titled The Struggle that Remains: Between the World and the International. The book tracks the modern entry of the word international into the English language, and theorizes its emergence as a contending signifier of the world, as well as its reconfiguration of horizons of struggle. ?Her first book, Juridical Humanity: A Colonial History?(Spring 2012, Stanford University Press) is a historical and theoretical study of how colonial juridical powers have reconfigured the concept of the human during the late-modern colonial era by bonding the human to the law.