Adam Dahl
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3687672 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Adam Dahl |
| NOMBRES | Adam |
| APELLIDO | Dahl |
| FIRMA | DAHL A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8815-9689 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 56 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Bringing the People in
Despite his support for the creation of the West Indies Federation in the late 1950s, the anticolonial activist and political thinker CLR James expressed severe reservations regarding the process that led to its creation. While his criticisms are brief, this paper reconstructs a Jamesian critique of the plebiscite as a means of anticolonial self-determination. Situating his discussion of the plebiscite in the broader arc of his political thought …
A Symposium on David Myer Temin’s Remapping Sovereignty
Remapping Sovereignty examines how activist-thinkers from Indigenous societies in North America recast the relationship between decolonization and sovereignty over the course of the twentieth century. While political theorists have criticized sovereignty as the dominant paradigm of political authority, alternatives to sovereignty remain elusive. Recasting these debates, Temin argues that activists-intellectuals in the long Red Power movement of t…
Transatlantic Fugitivity
The role of irony and sarcasm has been widely noted in Frederick Douglass’s 1852 Fifth of July oration. In this paper, I use a different and neglected episode in Douglass’s career as an orator—specifically, his exile and speaking tour in the British Isles from 1845–1847—to examine his ironic rhetoric in a transnational frame. In the transnational mode of ironic rhetoric employed during his exile, irony proceeds through the figurative transpositio…
Palestinian Solidarity and the Limits of Colonial Analogy
Unusual returns
Appealing to the World
As a mode of radical, anti-colonial politics, the petition and related genre of the appeal would seem to hold little promise. This paper uncovers the radical and transnational politics of petitioning in W. E. B. Du Bois's work with and against the United Nations in the 1940s. Examining a range of petitions beyond the more widely examined Appeal to the World (1947), this article argues that Du Bois subverts the familiar genre conventions of the pe…
W. E. B. Du Bois and transnational cosmopolitanism
Beyond the Anglo-World
This essay argues that delimiting the settler colonial analytic to colonial legacies in the “Anglo-world” risks disavowing its congruent relationship with other colonial ideologies such as those of the Spanish imperial world. In examining Alexis de Tocqueville’s comparisons of Anglo- and Spanish American colonization alongside Latin American writers like Lorenzo de Zavala and Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, it shows how they occupied a common discurs…
Constructing Colonial Peoples
This article examines W. E. B. Du Bois's transnational political thought during his work with the UN and the NAACP in the 1940s. Focusing on unpublished speeches, essays, and correspondence, it explores how he exploited the conceptual elasticity of terms like “colonial status” and “colonial peoples” in order to build a transnational majority on a global scale. The conceptual capaciousness of the term “colony” and its cognates allowed him to conne…
Oppression and racial slavery
Beyond Settler Futurism
Beyond Settler Futurism: Schotten’s Queer Terror Adam Dahl (bio) Heike Schotten. Queer Terror: Life, Death, and Desire in the Settler Colony. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. 272 pp. $35 (pb). ISBN: 9780231187473. In Queer Terror, Heike Schotten provides an important contribution to continued efforts to theorize the enduring legacies of US imperialism and settler colonialism. In a creative and compelling blend of queer theory, biopoliti…
Self-Determination between World and Nation
Rejecting the rigid dichotomy between anticolonial nationalism and postnational solidarity, Adom Getachew's Worldmaking after Empire argues that anticolonial leaders in the Caribbean and Africa did not outright reject the nation-state in their quest for self-determination. Instead, they internationalized the nation-state through the construction of new constituted powers that linked national sovereignties together in global juridical, political, …
The Pursuit of Happiness in the Founding Era
The Declaration of Independence is one of those political texts, like Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg or Second Inaugural Address, in which seemingly every phrase inspires thousands upon thousands of pages of debate and interpretation. Carli N. Conklin’s The Pursuit of Happiness in the Founding Era: An Intellectual History joins this fray in its attempt to parse the meaning of its titular phrase. Conklin departs from previous interpretations of “the…
Creolizing Natural Liberty
Although the concept of natural liberty played an essential role in the abolitionist movement, black abolitionist appropriations of the concept are generally reduced to Enlightenment categories of political theory. Through an analysis of Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery, I argue that the abolitionist Ottobah Cugoano developed a novel conception of natural liberty through a process of creolization. Rather than a wholesale adoption of…
Empire of the People
Narrating Historical Injustice
Memory and justice are intricately linked. To adequately address historical wrongs, liberal democracies must engage the past. Historical memory provides a connective tissue between past wrongs and present injustices. Yet the question that arises with the politics of memory and its usefulness for addressing historical injustice resides precisely in the process by which we create historical memory. This paper amends the politics of memory by attend…
The Black American Jacobins
While scholars of African American political thought have done a remarkable job centering focus on black thinkers, they still largely frame their endeavor in reference to the geo-political boundaries of the U.S. nation-state, thereby ignoring the transnational and diasporic dynamics of black politics. The consequence is that alternative traditions of thought in the Americas—e.g., Caribbean traditions—are cast as irrelevant to questions of racial …
Black Disembodiment in the Age of Ferguson
One of the more striking features of the Black Lives Matter movement against racialized police brutality has been the focus on violence inflicted on “black bodies.” On one hand, the language of “black bodies” as opposed to simply “black people” or “black personhood,” makes the issue of racial violence more visceral and immediate to white audiences otherwise indisposed to perceive black pain as a moral problem. On the other hand, it represents a t…
Commercial Conquest
Although consent and commerce were dominant principles of revolutionary political culture, early American expansionists engaged in the continual appropriation of indigenous land. How were these principles of consent and commerce combined with processes of territorial conquest? Rather than a Lockean right of conquest where labor establishes the right to property, architects of early American expansion drew on a possessory right to property in whic…
Nullifying Settler Democracy
This essay examines the concept of "Indian nullification" in the political writings of William Apess by situating his defense of native self-determination in the context of debates about the legitimacy of nullification in U.S. constitutionalism. It illustrates how Indian nullification operates, not as a feature of constitutional design asserting minority rights over the tyranny of the majority, but rather as a rhetorical form of political contest…
Neoliberalism for the Common Good? Public Value Governance and the Downsizing of Democracy
This article raises a set of cautions regarding public value governance along two dimensions. First, it questions the common claim that public value governance poses a direct challenge to the economistic logic of neoliberalism. Second, although public value is often presented as a democratizing agenda, leading works sidestep foundational questions of power and conflict and advance prescriptions that are at odds with important democratic values. W…
The Black American Jacobins
While scholars of African American political thought have done a remarkable job centering focus on black thinkers, they still largely frame their endeavor in reference to the geo-political boundaries of the U.S. nation-state, thereby ignoring the transnational and diasporic dynamics of black politics. The consequence is that alternative traditions of thought in the Americas—e.g., Caribbean traditions—are cast as irrelevant to questions of racial …
Narrating Historical Injustice
Memory and justice are intricately linked. To adequately address historical wrongs, liberal democracies must engage the past. Historical memory provides a connective tissue between past wrongs and present injustices. Yet the question that arises with the politics of memory and its usefulness for addressing historical injustice resides precisely in the process by which we create historical memory. This paper amends the politics of memory by attend…
Nullifying Settler Democracy
This essay examines the concept of "Indian nullification" in the political writings of William Apess by situating his defense of native self-determination in the context of debates about the legitimacy of nullification in U.S. constitutionalism. It illustrates how Indian nullification operates, not as a feature of constitutional design asserting minority rights over the tyranny of the majority, but rather as a rhetorical form of political contest…
Beyond the Anglo-World
This essay argues that delimiting the settler colonial analytic to colonial legacies in the “Anglo-world” risks disavowing its congruent relationship with other colonial ideologies such as those of the Spanish imperial world. In examining Alexis de Tocqueville’s comparisons of Anglo- and Spanish American colonization alongside Latin American writers like Lorenzo de Zavala and Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, it shows how they occupied a common discurs…
Creolizing Natural Liberty
Although the concept of natural liberty played an essential role in the abolitionist movement, black abolitionist appropriations of the concept are generally reduced to Enlightenment categories of political theory. Through an analysis of Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery, I argue that the abolitionist Ottobah Cugoano developed a novel conception of natural liberty through a process of creolization. Rather than a wholesale adoption of…
Oppression and racial slavery
Unusual returns
Black Disembodiment in the Age of Ferguson
One of the more striking features of the Black Lives Matter movement against racialized police brutality has been the focus on violence inflicted on “black bodies.” On one hand, the language of “black bodies” as opposed to simply “black people” or “black personhood,” makes the issue of racial violence more visceral and immediate to white audiences otherwise indisposed to perceive black pain as a moral problem. On the other hand, it represents a t…
Constructing Colonial Peoples
This article examines W. E. B. Du Bois's transnational political thought during his work with the UN and the NAACP in the 1940s. Focusing on unpublished speeches, essays, and correspondence, it explores how he exploited the conceptual elasticity of terms like “colonial status” and “colonial peoples” in order to build a transnational majority on a global scale. The conceptual capaciousness of the term “colony” and its cognates allowed him to conne…
Self-Determination between World and Nation
Rejecting the rigid dichotomy between anticolonial nationalism and postnational solidarity, Adom Getachew's Worldmaking after Empire argues that anticolonial leaders in the Caribbean and Africa did not outright reject the nation-state in their quest for self-determination. Instead, they internationalized the nation-state through the construction of new constituted powers that linked national sovereignties together in global juridical, political, …
Commercial Conquest
Although consent and commerce were dominant principles of revolutionary political culture, early American expansionists engaged in the continual appropriation of indigenous land. How were these principles of consent and commerce combined with processes of territorial conquest? Rather than a Lockean right of conquest where labor establishes the right to property, architects of early American expansion drew on a possessory right to property in whic…
Neoliberalism for the Common Good? Public Value Governance and the Downsizing of Democracy
This article raises a set of cautions regarding public value governance along two dimensions. First, it questions the common claim that public value governance poses a direct challenge to the economistic logic of neoliberalism. Second, although public value is often presented as a democratizing agenda, leading works sidestep foundational questions of power and conflict and advance prescriptions that are at odds with important democratic values. W…
Commercial Conquest
Although consent and commerce were dominant principles of revolutionary political culture, early American expansionists engaged in the continual appropriation of indigenous land. How were these principles of consent and commerce combined with processes of territorial conquest? Rather than a Lockean right of conquest where labor establishes the right to property, architects of early American expansion drew on a possessory right to property in whic…
Nullifying Settler Democracy
This essay examines the concept of "Indian nullification" in the political writings of William Apess by situating his defense of native self-determination in the context of debates about the legitimacy of nullification in U.S. constitutionalism. It illustrates how Indian nullification operates, not as a feature of constitutional design asserting minority rights over the tyranny of the majority, but rather as a rhetorical form of political contest…
Narrating Historical Injustice
Memory and justice are intricately linked. To adequately address historical wrongs, liberal democracies must engage the past. Historical memory provides a connective tissue between past wrongs and present injustices. Yet the question that arises with the politics of memory and its usefulness for addressing historical injustice resides precisely in the process by which we create historical memory. This paper amends the politics of memory by attend…
The Black American Jacobins
While scholars of African American political thought have done a remarkable job centering focus on black thinkers, they still largely frame their endeavor in reference to the geo-political boundaries of the U.S. nation-state, thereby ignoring the transnational and diasporic dynamics of black politics. The consequence is that alternative traditions of thought in the Americas—e.g., Caribbean traditions—are cast as irrelevant to questions of racial …
Black Disembodiment in the Age of Ferguson
One of the more striking features of the Black Lives Matter movement against racialized police brutality has been the focus on violence inflicted on “black bodies.” On one hand, the language of “black bodies” as opposed to simply “black people” or “black personhood,” makes the issue of racial violence more visceral and immediate to white audiences otherwise indisposed to perceive black pain as a moral problem. On the other hand, it represents a t…
Empire of the People
Beyond Settler Futurism
Beyond Settler Futurism: Schotten’s Queer Terror Adam Dahl (bio) Heike Schotten. Queer Terror: Life, Death, and Desire in the Settler Colony. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. 272 pp. $35 (pb). ISBN: 9780231187473. In Queer Terror, Heike Schotten provides an important contribution to continued efforts to theorize the enduring legacies of US imperialism and settler colonialism. In a creative and compelling blend of queer theory, biopoliti…
Self-Determination between World and Nation
Rejecting the rigid dichotomy between anticolonial nationalism and postnational solidarity, Adom Getachew's Worldmaking after Empire argues that anticolonial leaders in the Caribbean and Africa did not outright reject the nation-state in their quest for self-determination. Instead, they internationalized the nation-state through the construction of new constituted powers that linked national sovereignties together in global juridical, political, …
The Pursuit of Happiness in the Founding Era
The Declaration of Independence is one of those political texts, like Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg or Second Inaugural Address, in which seemingly every phrase inspires thousands upon thousands of pages of debate and interpretation. Carli N. Conklin’s The Pursuit of Happiness in the Founding Era: An Intellectual History joins this fray in its attempt to parse the meaning of its titular phrase. Conklin departs from previous interpretations of “the…
Creolizing Natural Liberty
Although the concept of natural liberty played an essential role in the abolitionist movement, black abolitionist appropriations of the concept are generally reduced to Enlightenment categories of political theory. Through an analysis of Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery, I argue that the abolitionist Ottobah Cugoano developed a novel conception of natural liberty through a process of creolization. Rather than a wholesale adoption of…
Oppression and racial slavery
Constructing Colonial Peoples
This article examines W. E. B. Du Bois's transnational political thought during his work with the UN and the NAACP in the 1940s. Focusing on unpublished speeches, essays, and correspondence, it explores how he exploited the conceptual elasticity of terms like “colonial status” and “colonial peoples” in order to build a transnational majority on a global scale. The conceptual capaciousness of the term “colony” and its cognates allowed him to conne…
W. E. B. Du Bois and transnational cosmopolitanism
Beyond the Anglo-World
This essay argues that delimiting the settler colonial analytic to colonial legacies in the “Anglo-world” risks disavowing its congruent relationship with other colonial ideologies such as those of the Spanish imperial world. In examining Alexis de Tocqueville’s comparisons of Anglo- and Spanish American colonization alongside Latin American writers like Lorenzo de Zavala and Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, it shows how they occupied a common discurs…
Unusual returns
Appealing to the World
As a mode of radical, anti-colonial politics, the petition and related genre of the appeal would seem to hold little promise. This paper uncovers the radical and transnational politics of petitioning in W. E. B. Du Bois's work with and against the United Nations in the 1940s. Examining a range of petitions beyond the more widely examined Appeal to the World (1947), this article argues that Du Bois subverts the familiar genre conventions of the pe…
Transatlantic Fugitivity
The role of irony and sarcasm has been widely noted in Frederick Douglass’s 1852 Fifth of July oration. In this paper, I use a different and neglected episode in Douglass’s career as an orator—specifically, his exile and speaking tour in the British Isles from 1845–1847—to examine his ironic rhetoric in a transnational frame. In the transnational mode of ironic rhetoric employed during his exile, irony proceeds through the figurative transpositio…
Palestinian Solidarity and the Limits of Colonial Analogy
Bringing the People in
Despite his support for the creation of the West Indies Federation in the late 1950s, the anticolonial activist and political thinker CLR James expressed severe reservations regarding the process that led to its creation. While his criticisms are brief, this paper reconstructs a Jamesian critique of the plebiscite as a means of anticolonial self-determination. Situating his discussion of the plebiscite in the broader arc of his political thought …
A Symposium on David Myer Temin’s Remapping Sovereignty
Remapping Sovereignty examines how activist-thinkers from Indigenous societies in North America recast the relationship between decolonization and sovereignty over the course of the twentieth century. While political theorists have criticized sovereignty as the dominant paradigm of political authority, alternatives to sovereignty remain elusive. Recasting these debates, Temin argues that activists-intellectuals in the long Red Power movement of t…
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