Emily Johansen
Biographic Data
| ID | 226674 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emily Johansen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emily |
| FAMILY NAME | Johansen |
| SIGNATURE | JOHANSEN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6155-7385 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Making sense of the rural white working class: The Contemporary Novel of Rural Retreat and the Politics of Resentment
A widespread centrist and conservative explanation for the ongoing rise of racist and xenophobic populism has been that progressives have been too preoccupied with identity politics, and not attentive enough to rural economic precarity. This narrative has been particularly popularised in two high-profile memoirs, J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy and Tara Westover’s Educated, which both attempt to explain the realities of the rural, white working clas…
Rereading Empathy
Over the last few decades and from across a spectrum of centrist political thought, a variety of academic disciplines, and numerous public intellectuals, the claim has been that we need to empathize more with marginalized people as a way to alleviate social inequalities. If we all had more skill with empathy, so the claim goes, we would all be better citizens. But what does it mean to empathize with others? How do we develop this skill? And what …
History in Place: Territorialized Cosmopolitanism in Teju Cole's Open City
Teju Cole's 2011 novel Open City has received a good deal of scholarly attention, the majority of which suggests that the novel depicts a failed cosmopolitanism: the narrator's emphasis on literary and aesthetic forms of global connection is undercut by his repeated ethical failings. However, in this article, I argue that Open City instead demonstrates a form of "territorialized cosmopolitanism" that emphasizes the embodied negotiation between lo…
Cosmopolitan Risk, Neoliberal Un-Freedom: Transparency and Responsibility in John LeCarré's The Constant Gardener
At the heart of both Kantian cosmopolitanism and liberal capitalism is the belief that they offer the best option for freedom from parochial curtailments of safety and liberty. On the one hand, a cosmopolitan federation of states provides the best option for freeing Europe (and, thus, the argument claims, the globe) from the violence that follows national affiliations and sovereignty. On the other hand, laissez-faire economics best ensures indivi…
Postcolonial Criticism, Women’s Writing, and Contemporary British Literature: A Review Essay
What kind of thing is postcolonialism today? 1 What does it mean to “do” postcolonial scholarship in this current moment, particularly when one’s scholarly archive is found primarily in texts about/set in contemporary London and written by authors who were born or live in England? Because, postcolonialism, like any theoretical paradigm, cannot be inexhaustibly flexible and indiscriminately applicable, without running the risk of evacuating it of …
Bureaucracy and narrative possibilities in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go
This article examines the use of bureaucratic narrative — that which poses the subject as an administrative subject and emphasizes the depersonalized and routinized repetition of formulaic rhetoric — in Never Let Me Go (2005) and its suggestion that the language of regulation and job requirements pervasively shapes the seeming impossibility of a critical stance towards a system that is patently and determinedly cruel. By reframing Kathy’s and Tom…
The banal conviviality of neoliberal cosmopolitanism
This paper examines the depiction of the banal cosmopolitan conviviality of metropolitan life in two recent British novels: Maggie Gee's My Cleaner (2006) and Tessa Hadley's The London Train (2011). Both texts depict cross-cultural encounters in London as typical to everyday life in a global metropolis and central to the mode of metropolitan cosmopolitanism. Yet, at the same time, through a narrative pattern of failed individual development, thes…
Introduction: Reading and Writing the Economic Present
This introduction to the issue offers an overview of current debates on neoliberalism as it relates to the contemporary novel. Distinguishing it from the novel of globalisation and the cosmopolitan novel, we suggest that the neoliberal novel is one particularly attuned to the economic rationalities of its time; it signals an attention to the ways novels circulate in an economic and geopolitical field and a consideration of the apparatus that stru…
Becoming the virus: Responsibility and cosmopolitan labor in Hari Kunzru'sTransmission
This article considers Hari Kunzru's 2005 novel, Transmission, and its critique of the attributes and assumptions of globalized neoliberal culture, such as an unequivocally positive view of the value of global mobility, and increased diversity of global job opportunities. Through the metaphorical use of a computer virus, Kunzru complicates widespread representations of "privileged" cosmopolitan subjects as divorced from material place and preoccu…
Introduction: Reading and Writing the Economic Present
This introduction to the issue offers an overview of current debates on neoliberalism as it relates to the contemporary novel. Distinguishing it from the novel of globalisation and the cosmopolitan novel, we suggest that the neoliberal novel is one particularly attuned to the economic rationalities of its time; it signals an attention to the ways novels circulate in an economic and geopolitical field and a consideration of the apparatus that stru…
Cosmopolitan Risk, Neoliberal Un-Freedom: Transparency and Responsibility in John LeCarré's The Constant Gardener
At the heart of both Kantian cosmopolitanism and liberal capitalism is the belief that they offer the best option for freedom from parochial curtailments of safety and liberty. On the one hand, a cosmopolitan federation of states provides the best option for freeing Europe (and, thus, the argument claims, the globe) from the violence that follows national affiliations and sovereignty. On the other hand, laissez-faire economics best ensures indivi…
The banal conviviality of neoliberal cosmopolitanism
This paper examines the depiction of the banal cosmopolitan conviviality of metropolitan life in two recent British novels: Maggie Gee's My Cleaner (2006) and Tessa Hadley's The London Train (2011). Both texts depict cross-cultural encounters in London as typical to everyday life in a global metropolis and central to the mode of metropolitan cosmopolitanism. Yet, at the same time, through a narrative pattern of failed individual development, thes…
Becoming the virus: Responsibility and cosmopolitan labor in Hari Kunzru'sTransmission
This article considers Hari Kunzru's 2005 novel, Transmission, and its critique of the attributes and assumptions of globalized neoliberal culture, such as an unequivocally positive view of the value of global mobility, and increased diversity of global job opportunities. Through the metaphorical use of a computer virus, Kunzru complicates widespread representations of "privileged" cosmopolitan subjects as divorced from material place and preoccu…
History in Place: Territorialized Cosmopolitanism in Teju Cole's Open City
Teju Cole's 2011 novel Open City has received a good deal of scholarly attention, the majority of which suggests that the novel depicts a failed cosmopolitanism: the narrator's emphasis on literary and aesthetic forms of global connection is undercut by his repeated ethical failings. However, in this article, I argue that Open City instead demonstrates a form of "territorialized cosmopolitanism" that emphasizes the embodied negotiation between lo…
Becoming the virus: Responsibility and cosmopolitan labor in Hari Kunzru'sTransmission
This article considers Hari Kunzru's 2005 novel, Transmission, and its critique of the attributes and assumptions of globalized neoliberal culture, such as an unequivocally positive view of the value of global mobility, and increased diversity of global job opportunities. Through the metaphorical use of a computer virus, Kunzru complicates widespread representations of "privileged" cosmopolitan subjects as divorced from material place and preoccu…
Bureaucracy and narrative possibilities in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go
This article examines the use of bureaucratic narrative — that which poses the subject as an administrative subject and emphasizes the depersonalized and routinized repetition of formulaic rhetoric — in Never Let Me Go (2005) and its suggestion that the language of regulation and job requirements pervasively shapes the seeming impossibility of a critical stance towards a system that is patently and determinedly cruel. By reframing Kathy’s and Tom…
The banal conviviality of neoliberal cosmopolitanism
This paper examines the depiction of the banal cosmopolitan conviviality of metropolitan life in two recent British novels: Maggie Gee's My Cleaner (2006) and Tessa Hadley's The London Train (2011). Both texts depict cross-cultural encounters in London as typical to everyday life in a global metropolis and central to the mode of metropolitan cosmopolitanism. Yet, at the same time, through a narrative pattern of failed individual development, thes…
Introduction: Reading and Writing the Economic Present
This introduction to the issue offers an overview of current debates on neoliberalism as it relates to the contemporary novel. Distinguishing it from the novel of globalisation and the cosmopolitan novel, we suggest that the neoliberal novel is one particularly attuned to the economic rationalities of its time; it signals an attention to the ways novels circulate in an economic and geopolitical field and a consideration of the apparatus that stru…
Postcolonial Criticism, Women’s Writing, and Contemporary British Literature: A Review Essay
What kind of thing is postcolonialism today? 1 What does it mean to “do” postcolonial scholarship in this current moment, particularly when one’s scholarly archive is found primarily in texts about/set in contemporary London and written by authors who were born or live in England? Because, postcolonialism, like any theoretical paradigm, cannot be inexhaustibly flexible and indiscriminately applicable, without running the risk of evacuating it of …
History in Place: Territorialized Cosmopolitanism in Teju Cole's Open City
Teju Cole's 2011 novel Open City has received a good deal of scholarly attention, the majority of which suggests that the novel depicts a failed cosmopolitanism: the narrator's emphasis on literary and aesthetic forms of global connection is undercut by his repeated ethical failings. However, in this article, I argue that Open City instead demonstrates a form of "territorialized cosmopolitanism" that emphasizes the embodied negotiation between lo…
Cosmopolitan Risk, Neoliberal Un-Freedom: Transparency and Responsibility in John LeCarré's The Constant Gardener
At the heart of both Kantian cosmopolitanism and liberal capitalism is the belief that they offer the best option for freedom from parochial curtailments of safety and liberty. On the one hand, a cosmopolitan federation of states provides the best option for freeing Europe (and, thus, the argument claims, the globe) from the violence that follows national affiliations and sovereignty. On the other hand, laissez-faire economics best ensures indivi…
Rereading Empathy
Over the last few decades and from across a spectrum of centrist political thought, a variety of academic disciplines, and numerous public intellectuals, the claim has been that we need to empathize more with marginalized people as a way to alleviate social inequalities. If we all had more skill with empathy, so the claim goes, we would all be better citizens. But what does it mean to empathize with others? How do we develop this skill? And what …
Making sense of the rural white working class: The Contemporary Novel of Rural Retreat and the Politics of Resentment
A widespread centrist and conservative explanation for the ongoing rise of racist and xenophobic populism has been that progressives have been too preoccupied with identity politics, and not attentive enough to rural economic precarity. This narrative has been particularly popularised in two high-profile memoirs, J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy and Tara Westover’s Educated, which both attempt to explain the realities of the rural, white working clas…
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Cosmopolitanism (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works)