Terri Tomsky
Biographic Data
| ID | 1246051 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Terri Tomsky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Terri |
| FAMILY NAME | Tomsky |
| SIGNATURE | TOMSKY T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Palimpsest of Lives, Languages and Histories - Ways of Being in and of the World
This reflection on Sneja Gunew’s career-spanning interest in cosmopolitanism engages her analysis of minority writers; her pedagogy; as well as her desire to expand knowledge regimes and unsettle normative assumptions. I explore how Gunew’s own positionality and family history shaped her deep interest in this area. Finally, I consider Gunew’s lasting influence on my own research on the valences of negative cosmopolitanism
Citizens of Nowhere
This paper considers the philosophical concept of cosmopolitanism within the global context of increasing securitisation and the racial surveillance of asylum seekers and migrants. It explores how a literary text, such as Dionne Brand’s long-form poem Inventory (2006), offers a way to assess critically the hidden architectures of migrant detention centres and illuminate what has been called the ‘banopticon’ apparatus and its disciplinary manageme…
Negative Cosmopolitanism
Towards a realistic utopia
The ad hoc international criminal tribunals established by the UN Security Council in the 1990s represented the first international efforts to respond to war crimes since the Nuremberg Trials. These tribunals had practical as well as symbolic significance in the context of a longer history of utopian ideas of international justice and universal human rights. Focusing on the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), this article exa…
Iguanas and Enemy Combatants
Recent scholarship in animal studies has greatly invigorated understandings of human-animal relationships, including especially where the species interrelate or overlap. These accounts have been helpful not only in contesting the binary distinctions set up between human and animal, but also in subjecting to scrutiny the objectification practices that exclude the rights of individual subjects. Yet, where in the past the animalization of humans leg…
The Guantánamo Lawyers
This article explores the strategic deployment of the life narrative genre by the lawyers of designated enemy combatants as part of the human rights activism against the unlawful detainment of prisoners at the US military prison in Guantánamo
From Sarajevo to 9/11
Amitav Ghosh's Anxious Witnessing and the Ethics of Action in The Hungry Tide
Focusing on Amitav Ghosh's novel The Hungry Tide, this article explores the challenges faced by cosmopolitans seeking to make an ethical intervention in a subaltern space. By dramatizing the encounter between bourgeois characters and the traumatic history of people inhabiting the Sundarbans region of Bengal, Ghosh suggests that an unreconstructed cosmopolitanism is incapable of addressing social injustices; to effect any positive change, the cosm…
Fifty Years On
The 1947 partition of India left such a traumatic impact on communities that generations today are still grappling with how to remember the event. In the absence of official State commemoration, historiographical and literary scholarship has served to recuperate and disseminate those traumatic memories. This scholarly response comes out of and often interacts with the private experience of subjects who are haunted by the affective excess of parti…
From Sarajevo to 9/11
Amitav Ghosh's Anxious Witnessing and the Ethics of Action in The Hungry Tide
Focusing on Amitav Ghosh's novel The Hungry Tide, this article explores the challenges faced by cosmopolitans seeking to make an ethical intervention in a subaltern space. By dramatizing the encounter between bourgeois characters and the traumatic history of people inhabiting the Sundarbans region of Bengal, Ghosh suggests that an unreconstructed cosmopolitanism is incapable of addressing social injustices; to effect any positive change, the cosm…
Citizens of Nowhere
This paper considers the philosophical concept of cosmopolitanism within the global context of increasing securitisation and the racial surveillance of asylum seekers and migrants. It explores how a literary text, such as Dionne Brand’s long-form poem Inventory (2006), offers a way to assess critically the hidden architectures of migrant detention centres and illuminate what has been called the ‘banopticon’ apparatus and its disciplinary manageme…
Fifty Years On
The 1947 partition of India left such a traumatic impact on communities that generations today are still grappling with how to remember the event. In the absence of official State commemoration, historiographical and literary scholarship has served to recuperate and disseminate those traumatic memories. This scholarly response comes out of and often interacts with the private experience of subjects who are haunted by the affective excess of parti…
Amitav Ghosh's Anxious Witnessing and the Ethics of Action in The Hungry Tide
Focusing on Amitav Ghosh's novel The Hungry Tide, this article explores the challenges faced by cosmopolitans seeking to make an ethical intervention in a subaltern space. By dramatizing the encounter between bourgeois characters and the traumatic history of people inhabiting the Sundarbans region of Bengal, Ghosh suggests that an unreconstructed cosmopolitanism is incapable of addressing social injustices; to effect any positive change, the cosm…
From Sarajevo to 9/11
Iguanas and Enemy Combatants
Recent scholarship in animal studies has greatly invigorated understandings of human-animal relationships, including especially where the species interrelate or overlap. These accounts have been helpful not only in contesting the binary distinctions set up between human and animal, but also in subjecting to scrutiny the objectification practices that exclude the rights of individual subjects. Yet, where in the past the animalization of humans leg…
The Guantánamo Lawyers
This article explores the strategic deployment of the life narrative genre by the lawyers of designated enemy combatants as part of the human rights activism against the unlawful detainment of prisoners at the US military prison in Guantánamo
Towards a realistic utopia
The ad hoc international criminal tribunals established by the UN Security Council in the 1990s represented the first international efforts to respond to war crimes since the Nuremberg Trials. These tribunals had practical as well as symbolic significance in the context of a longer history of utopian ideas of international justice and universal human rights. Focusing on the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), this article exa…
Negative Cosmopolitanism
Citizens of Nowhere
This paper considers the philosophical concept of cosmopolitanism within the global context of increasing securitisation and the racial surveillance of asylum seekers and migrants. It explores how a literary text, such as Dionne Brand’s long-form poem Inventory (2006), offers a way to assess critically the hidden architectures of migrant detention centres and illuminate what has been called the ‘banopticon’ apparatus and its disciplinary manageme…
A Palimpsest of Lives, Languages and Histories - Ways of Being in and of the World
This reflection on Sneja Gunew’s career-spanning interest in cosmopolitanism engages her analysis of minority writers; her pedagogy; as well as her desire to expand knowledge regimes and unsettle normative assumptions. I explore how Gunew’s own positionality and family history shaped her deep interest in this area. Finally, I consider Gunew’s lasting influence on my own research on the valences of negative cosmopolitanism
Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · History (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Cosmopolitanism (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works)