Louiza Odysseos
Biographic Data
| ID | 3468866 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Louiza Odysseos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Louiza |
| FAMILY NAME | Odysseos |
| SIGNATURE | ODYSSEOS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9069-6229 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 172 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Precarity
The Special Forum establishes as an integral part of “critical global studies” the effort to interrogate how plural poetic and aesthetic registers enable distinct analyses of the establishment, harms and survivances of “the international” and “the global.” The authors’ reconstructive moves refuse the occlusion of histories of colonialism and slavery, surfacing as central to precarity their practices of extraction, land dispossession, and dehumani…
Against Archival Abjection
Struggles against epistemic devaluation abound as groups contest extractive knowledge practices and reductive categories of classification that produce/d them as racialized and (un)gendered. These struggles are accompanied by growing calls to “return to the archive” to both illuminate and work to repair the reverberating harms of enslavement, colonialism and empire, as well as their active forgetting. Acknowledging the significance of such demand…
After rights? Politics, ethics, aesthetics
After rights, after Man? Sylvia Wynter, sociopoetic struggle and the ‘undared shape’
Decolonial and post-colonial critiques have shown how rights naturalise a normatively white, Western bourgeois, and appropriative subject, while negating other forms of being and subjectivity. Given the disquiet around rights and their subject, reimagining the subject of rights calls on us to think ‘after rights?’. Thinking ‘after rights?’, and insisting on the question mark, I argue, entails seeking the ‘undared shape’ (Aimé Césaire) of rights u…
Stolen Life’s Poetic Revolt
Joining the discussion of revolution and resistance in world politics, this article puts forward the idea of poetic revolt as a necessary companion to these terms, one which centres attention on the ongoing reverberations of transatlantic slavery – what have been called its ‘afterlives’ (Saidiya Hartman, Édouard Glissant). Engaging with contributions to poetics, black studies and black feminist thought, it first develops a theoretical orientation…
Heidegger and the Global Age
Globalization is one of the most contested and (ab)used concepts of our time. Whether one interprets it as a ‘collective illusion’ or as the final stage of capitalism, as ‘uncontrollable multitude’ or as a radical opening of new spaces of freedom, the ‘global age’ represents the conceptual and existential background of our being-in-the-world. But what lies behind this process? What mode of human existence is brought about by the age of technology…
Toward Critical Pedagogies of the International? Student Resistance, Other-Regardedness, and Self-Formation in the Neoliberal University
Anxieties regarding colonial and neoliberal education have generated multiple calls for critical international pedagogies. Scholars of critical pedagogy have analyzed the pedagogies of the neoliberal project, whose ethos and economic imperatives aim to produce apolitical consumers and future citizens. Such calls, this article argues, articulate a concern about other-regardedness, critiquing the impact of neoliberalism on the cultivation of studen…
Prolegomena to Any Future Decolonial Ethics
Decolonial thought has wrought a devastating critique on the Academy and wide-ranging fields within it. Decolonial critique entails undeniable and multiple ethico-political orientations arising from concrete struggles within the ‘unfinished project of decolonization’ (Maldonado-Torres), as well as recent articulations of decolonial ethics. This article argues that, as decolonial critique, and calls for decolonial ethics, begin to find their way i…
Power of Human Rights/the Human Rights of Power
Interrogating Michel Foucault's Counter-Conduct
Resistance, and its study, is on the rise: visible and politically discernible practices of dissent against sovereignty and economic exploitation, such as protesting, agitating and occupying, have received increased analytical attention in the past decade. This special issue provides much needed systematic attention to less visible practices of resistance or those not manifested in expressly political registers. It focuses on attempts to inventiv…
Human Rights, Self-Formation and Resistance in Struggles against Disposability
Theorising how human rights function as a liberal governing technology has undoubtedly been an important contribution of "governmentality studies". Such theorisation, however, has largely eschewed concerted examination of the mobilisation and impact of human rights in historically specific struggles. This has tended to divorce the theoretical concerns of critical rights scholarship from the specificity of political struggles, reifying rights and …
The question concerning human rights and human rightlessness
In the midst of concerns about diminishing political support for human rights, individuals and groups across the globe continue to invoke them in their diverse struggles against oppression and injustice. Yet both those concerned with the future of human rights and those who champion rights activism as essential to resistance, assume that human rights – as law, discourse and practices of rights claiming – can ameliorate rightlessness. In questioni…
The power of human rights/the human rights of power
The contributions to this volume eschew the long-held approach of either dismissing human rights as politically compromised or glorifying them as a priori progressive in enabling resistance. Drawing on plural social theoretic and philosophical literatures – and a multiplicity of empirical domains – they illuminate the multi-layered and intricate relationship of human rights and power. They highlight human rights’ incitement of new subjects and mo…
Governing Dissent in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve
This article explores the theme of ‘disciplining dissent’ by examining how dissenting conduct is channelled into ‘acceptable’ and ‘productive’ practices. To this end, it uses Michel Foucault's framework of ‘government’ in order to highlight the operations of a diffuse and generalized form of ‘disciplining’, where this refers to the directing or ‘structur[ing of] the field of action of others’. Through this framework, the article illuminates that …
Human Rights, Liberal Ontogenesis and Freedom
Taking liberalism as a technology of government characterised by its signature impulse — what Michel Foucault called ‘the internal rule of maximum economy’ — the article interrogates the ways in which human rights produce a distinct subjectivity, homo juridicus, which is a subject amenable to self-government and, as such, acts as a partner, indeed a predicate, to neoliberal governmentality. Taking its impetus from Foucault’s discussion of homo oe…
Constituting community
In his commentary on Martin Heidegger’s ‘politics’, Philippe Lacoue‐Labarthe noted that there is a continuous but unanswerable question of identification in Heidegger’s thought. At the same time, Lacoue‐Labarthe asks: why would the problem of mimesis, of identification, indeed, of ‘community’, not be considered the essential question of the political as such? In this article, I propose a consideration of the question of community and mimesis. I s…
Vagaries of Interpretation
The International Political Thought of Carl Schmitt
Introducing the International Theory of Carl Schmitt
In this piece we introduce and contextualize the contributions to the special focus on the international theory of Carl Schmitt, and argue that Carl Schmitt's much neglected international thought can provide scholars of both international relations and international law with a new common multidisciplinary research platform pivotal in thinking about the present international predicaments of crisis in international order and legitimacy, of conteste…
On the Way to Global Ethics
On the Way to Global Ethics
In response to varied processes of globalization, the cosmopolitan perspective has rightly insisted that discussion of global ethics ought to be taken seriously. This article agrees with cosmopolitan theorists in calling for the implementation of a perspective that can address the other outside of narrow communal determinations. Yet it also advances a critique of their reliance on legalist instruments such as human rights, contending that the bes…
Radical Phenomenology, Ontology, and International Political Theory
This article is contribution to investigation of possible methodologies available to study of global politics. Conceived as rejoinder to those who demand not merely positivist but rigorous research, it is motivated by belief that reflection can be true to itself only when made concrete by acute attention to specificity of worldly phenomena. To this end, I outline what might be broadly referred to as method. Phenomenology's demand that one attend …
Dangerous ontologies
The article responds to a recent call for a more systematic interrogation of the persistence of the dichotomous relation between ethics and International Relations. The addition of ethics into International Relations, it has recently been claimed, has left unquestioned the ethical assumptions encompassed in the ‘agenda’ of International Relations itself. Thus, the article examines the ethics implicit in the ‘agenda of IR’ and, in so doing, consid…
Laughing Matters
Interrogating Michel Foucault's Counter-Conduct
Resistance, and its study, is on the rise: visible and politically discernible practices of dissent against sovereignty and economic exploitation, such as protesting, agitating and occupying, have received increased analytical attention in the past decade. This special issue provides much needed systematic attention to less visible practices of resistance or those not manifested in expressly political registers. It focuses on attempts to inventiv…
Human Rights, Liberal Ontogenesis and Freedom
Taking liberalism as a technology of government characterised by its signature impulse — what Michel Foucault called ‘the internal rule of maximum economy’ — the article interrogates the ways in which human rights produce a distinct subjectivity, homo juridicus, which is a subject amenable to self-government and, as such, acts as a partner, indeed a predicate, to neoliberal governmentality. Taking its impetus from Foucault’s discussion of homo oe…
Human Rights, Self-Formation and Resistance in Struggles against Disposability
Theorising how human rights function as a liberal governing technology has undoubtedly been an important contribution of "governmentality studies". Such theorisation, however, has largely eschewed concerted examination of the mobilisation and impact of human rights in historically specific struggles. This has tended to divorce the theoretical concerns of critical rights scholarship from the specificity of political struggles, reifying rights and …
Prolegomena to Any Future Decolonial Ethics
Decolonial thought has wrought a devastating critique on the Academy and wide-ranging fields within it. Decolonial critique entails undeniable and multiple ethico-political orientations arising from concrete struggles within the ‘unfinished project of decolonization’ (Maldonado-Torres), as well as recent articulations of decolonial ethics. This article argues that, as decolonial critique, and calls for decolonial ethics, begin to find their way i…
Laughing Matters
Governing Dissent in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve
This article explores the theme of ‘disciplining dissent’ by examining how dissenting conduct is channelled into ‘acceptable’ and ‘productive’ practices. To this end, it uses Michel Foucault's framework of ‘government’ in order to highlight the operations of a diffuse and generalized form of ‘disciplining’, where this refers to the directing or ‘structur[ing of] the field of action of others’. Through this framework, the article illuminates that …
Radical Phenomenology, Ontology, and International Political Theory
This article is contribution to investigation of possible methodologies available to study of global politics. Conceived as rejoinder to those who demand not merely positivist but rigorous research, it is motivated by belief that reflection can be true to itself only when made concrete by acute attention to specificity of worldly phenomena. To this end, I outline what might be broadly referred to as method. Phenomenology's demand that one attend …
Toward Critical Pedagogies of the International? Student Resistance, Other-Regardedness, and Self-Formation in the Neoliberal University
Anxieties regarding colonial and neoliberal education have generated multiple calls for critical international pedagogies. Scholars of critical pedagogy have analyzed the pedagogies of the neoliberal project, whose ethos and economic imperatives aim to produce apolitical consumers and future citizens. Such calls, this article argues, articulate a concern about other-regardedness, critiquing the impact of neoliberalism on the cultivation of studen…
Dangerous ontologies
The article responds to a recent call for a more systematic interrogation of the persistence of the dichotomous relation between ethics and International Relations. The addition of ethics into International Relations, it has recently been claimed, has left unquestioned the ethical assumptions encompassed in the ‘agenda’ of International Relations itself. Thus, the article examines the ethics implicit in the ‘agenda of IR’ and, in so doing, consid…
Stolen Life’s Poetic Revolt
Joining the discussion of revolution and resistance in world politics, this article puts forward the idea of poetic revolt as a necessary companion to these terms, one which centres attention on the ongoing reverberations of transatlantic slavery – what have been called its ‘afterlives’ (Saidiya Hartman, Édouard Glissant). Engaging with contributions to poetics, black studies and black feminist thought, it first develops a theoretical orientation…
On the Way to Global Ethics
In response to varied processes of globalization, the cosmopolitan perspective has rightly insisted that discussion of global ethics ought to be taken seriously. This article agrees with cosmopolitan theorists in calling for the implementation of a perspective that can address the other outside of narrow communal determinations. Yet it also advances a critique of their reliance on legalist instruments such as human rights, contending that the bes…
Vagaries of Interpretation
Introducing the International Theory of Carl Schmitt
In this piece we introduce and contextualize the contributions to the special focus on the international theory of Carl Schmitt, and argue that Carl Schmitt's much neglected international thought can provide scholars of both international relations and international law with a new common multidisciplinary research platform pivotal in thinking about the present international predicaments of crisis in international order and legitimacy, of conteste…
Against Archival Abjection
Struggles against epistemic devaluation abound as groups contest extractive knowledge practices and reductive categories of classification that produce/d them as racialized and (un)gendered. These struggles are accompanied by growing calls to “return to the archive” to both illuminate and work to repair the reverberating harms of enslavement, colonialism and empire, as well as their active forgetting. Acknowledging the significance of such demand…
After rights, after Man? Sylvia Wynter, sociopoetic struggle and the ‘undared shape’
Decolonial and post-colonial critiques have shown how rights naturalise a normatively white, Western bourgeois, and appropriative subject, while negating other forms of being and subjectivity. Given the disquiet around rights and their subject, reimagining the subject of rights calls on us to think ‘after rights?’. Thinking ‘after rights?’, and insisting on the question mark, I argue, entails seeking the ‘undared shape’ (Aimé Césaire) of rights u…
The question concerning human rights and human rightlessness
In the midst of concerns about diminishing political support for human rights, individuals and groups across the globe continue to invoke them in their diverse struggles against oppression and injustice. Yet both those concerned with the future of human rights and those who champion rights activism as essential to resistance, assume that human rights – as law, discourse and practices of rights claiming – can ameliorate rightlessness. In questioni…
The power of human rights/the human rights of power
The contributions to this volume eschew the long-held approach of either dismissing human rights as politically compromised or glorifying them as a priori progressive in enabling resistance. Drawing on plural social theoretic and philosophical literatures – and a multiplicity of empirical domains – they illuminate the multi-layered and intricate relationship of human rights and power. They highlight human rights’ incitement of new subjects and mo…
Constituting community
In his commentary on Martin Heidegger’s ‘politics’, Philippe Lacoue‐Labarthe noted that there is a continuous but unanswerable question of identification in Heidegger’s thought. At the same time, Lacoue‐Labarthe asks: why would the problem of mimesis, of identification, indeed, of ‘community’, not be considered the essential question of the political as such? In this article, I propose a consideration of the question of community and mimesis. I s…
Precarity
The Special Forum establishes as an integral part of “critical global studies” the effort to interrogate how plural poetic and aesthetic registers enable distinct analyses of the establishment, harms and survivances of “the international” and “the global.” The authors’ reconstructive moves refuse the occlusion of histories of colonialism and slavery, surfacing as central to precarity their practices of extraction, land dispossession, and dehumani…
Laughing Matters
Radical Phenomenology, Ontology, and International Political Theory
This article is contribution to investigation of possible methodologies available to study of global politics. Conceived as rejoinder to those who demand not merely positivist but rigorous research, it is motivated by belief that reflection can be true to itself only when made concrete by acute attention to specificity of worldly phenomena. To this end, I outline what might be broadly referred to as method. Phenomenology's demand that one attend …
Dangerous ontologies
The article responds to a recent call for a more systematic interrogation of the persistence of the dichotomous relation between ethics and International Relations. The addition of ethics into International Relations, it has recently been claimed, has left unquestioned the ethical assumptions encompassed in the ‘agenda’ of International Relations itself. Thus, the article examines the ethics implicit in the ‘agenda of IR’ and, in so doing, consid…
On the Way to Global Ethics
On the Way to Global Ethics
In response to varied processes of globalization, the cosmopolitan perspective has rightly insisted that discussion of global ethics ought to be taken seriously. This article agrees with cosmopolitan theorists in calling for the implementation of a perspective that can address the other outside of narrow communal determinations. Yet it also advances a critique of their reliance on legalist instruments such as human rights, contending that the bes…
Introducing the International Theory of Carl Schmitt
In this piece we introduce and contextualize the contributions to the special focus on the international theory of Carl Schmitt, and argue that Carl Schmitt's much neglected international thought can provide scholars of both international relations and international law with a new common multidisciplinary research platform pivotal in thinking about the present international predicaments of crisis in international order and legitimacy, of conteste…
The International Political Thought of Carl Schmitt
Vagaries of Interpretation
Constituting community
In his commentary on Martin Heidegger’s ‘politics’, Philippe Lacoue‐Labarthe noted that there is a continuous but unanswerable question of identification in Heidegger’s thought. At the same time, Lacoue‐Labarthe asks: why would the problem of mimesis, of identification, indeed, of ‘community’, not be considered the essential question of the political as such? In this article, I propose a consideration of the question of community and mimesis. I s…
Human Rights, Liberal Ontogenesis and Freedom
Taking liberalism as a technology of government characterised by its signature impulse — what Michel Foucault called ‘the internal rule of maximum economy’ — the article interrogates the ways in which human rights produce a distinct subjectivity, homo juridicus, which is a subject amenable to self-government and, as such, acts as a partner, indeed a predicate, to neoliberal governmentality. Taking its impetus from Foucault’s discussion of homo oe…
Governing Dissent in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve
This article explores the theme of ‘disciplining dissent’ by examining how dissenting conduct is channelled into ‘acceptable’ and ‘productive’ practices. To this end, it uses Michel Foucault's framework of ‘government’ in order to highlight the operations of a diffuse and generalized form of ‘disciplining’, where this refers to the directing or ‘structur[ing of] the field of action of others’. Through this framework, the article illuminates that …
The question concerning human rights and human rightlessness
In the midst of concerns about diminishing political support for human rights, individuals and groups across the globe continue to invoke them in their diverse struggles against oppression and injustice. Yet both those concerned with the future of human rights and those who champion rights activism as essential to resistance, assume that human rights – as law, discourse and practices of rights claiming – can ameliorate rightlessness. In questioni…
The power of human rights/the human rights of power
The contributions to this volume eschew the long-held approach of either dismissing human rights as politically compromised or glorifying them as a priori progressive in enabling resistance. Drawing on plural social theoretic and philosophical literatures – and a multiplicity of empirical domains – they illuminate the multi-layered and intricate relationship of human rights and power. They highlight human rights’ incitement of new subjects and mo…
Interrogating Michel Foucault's Counter-Conduct
Resistance, and its study, is on the rise: visible and politically discernible practices of dissent against sovereignty and economic exploitation, such as protesting, agitating and occupying, have received increased analytical attention in the past decade. This special issue provides much needed systematic attention to less visible practices of resistance or those not manifested in expressly political registers. It focuses on attempts to inventiv…
Human Rights, Self-Formation and Resistance in Struggles against Disposability
Theorising how human rights function as a liberal governing technology has undoubtedly been an important contribution of "governmentality studies". Such theorisation, however, has largely eschewed concerted examination of the mobilisation and impact of human rights in historically specific struggles. This has tended to divorce the theoretical concerns of critical rights scholarship from the specificity of political struggles, reifying rights and …
Heidegger and the Global Age
Globalization is one of the most contested and (ab)used concepts of our time. Whether one interprets it as a ‘collective illusion’ or as the final stage of capitalism, as ‘uncontrollable multitude’ or as a radical opening of new spaces of freedom, the ‘global age’ represents the conceptual and existential background of our being-in-the-world. But what lies behind this process? What mode of human existence is brought about by the age of technology…
Toward Critical Pedagogies of the International? Student Resistance, Other-Regardedness, and Self-Formation in the Neoliberal University
Anxieties regarding colonial and neoliberal education have generated multiple calls for critical international pedagogies. Scholars of critical pedagogy have analyzed the pedagogies of the neoliberal project, whose ethos and economic imperatives aim to produce apolitical consumers and future citizens. Such calls, this article argues, articulate a concern about other-regardedness, critiquing the impact of neoliberalism on the cultivation of studen…
Prolegomena to Any Future Decolonial Ethics
Decolonial thought has wrought a devastating critique on the Academy and wide-ranging fields within it. Decolonial critique entails undeniable and multiple ethico-political orientations arising from concrete struggles within the ‘unfinished project of decolonization’ (Maldonado-Torres), as well as recent articulations of decolonial ethics. This article argues that, as decolonial critique, and calls for decolonial ethics, begin to find their way i…
Power of Human Rights/the Human Rights of Power
Stolen Life’s Poetic Revolt
Joining the discussion of revolution and resistance in world politics, this article puts forward the idea of poetic revolt as a necessary companion to these terms, one which centres attention on the ongoing reverberations of transatlantic slavery – what have been called its ‘afterlives’ (Saidiya Hartman, Édouard Glissant). Engaging with contributions to poetics, black studies and black feminist thought, it first develops a theoretical orientation…
After rights, after Man? Sylvia Wynter, sociopoetic struggle and the ‘undared shape’
Decolonial and post-colonial critiques have shown how rights naturalise a normatively white, Western bourgeois, and appropriative subject, while negating other forms of being and subjectivity. Given the disquiet around rights and their subject, reimagining the subject of rights calls on us to think ‘after rights?’. Thinking ‘after rights?’, and insisting on the question mark, I argue, entails seeking the ‘undared shape’ (Aimé Césaire) of rights u…
After rights? Politics, ethics, aesthetics
Precarity
The Special Forum establishes as an integral part of “critical global studies” the effort to interrogate how plural poetic and aesthetic registers enable distinct analyses of the establishment, harms and survivances of “the international” and “the global.” The authors’ reconstructive moves refuse the occlusion of histories of colonialism and slavery, surfacing as central to precarity their practices of extraction, land dispossession, and dehumani…
Against Archival Abjection
Struggles against epistemic devaluation abound as groups contest extractive knowledge practices and reductive categories of classification that produce/d them as racialized and (un)gendered. These struggles are accompanied by growing calls to “return to the archive” to both illuminate and work to repair the reverberating harms of enslavement, colonialism and empire, as well as their active forgetting. Acknowledging the significance of such demand…
Political science (18 works) · Law (17 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Law (16 works) · Politics (15 works) · Philosophy (13 works) · Epistemology (12 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Human rights (8 works) · Foucault, Power, and Ethics (7 works)