Kevin Duong
Biographic Data
| ID | 451561 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin Duong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin |
| FAMILY NAME | Duong |
| SIGNATURE | DUONG K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1497-9937 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Decolonization and World Order
Where does new work on decolonization stand in relation to preceding work on empire and postcolonial theory? In what circumstances should we situate decolonization’s ascendance in political theory? This “state-of-the-field” essay surveys a spectrum of recent work and offers a snapshot of generational change. It suggests that new research on decolonization is less indebted to established debates surrounding liberalism, empire, and postcolonial the…
The necessity of philosophical anthropology: On Alfaro Altamirano’s The Belief in Intuition
The sorcerer’s apprentices of interwar France
No concept attracted as much controversy, or muddled ideological identifications so thoroughly, as ‘myth’ in interwar France. By the late 1930s, ‘la mythomanie’ was drawing systematic attention from existentialists, Surrealists, ethnologists, sociologists, and nascent fascist movements. This essay reconsiders this polemical and misunderstood moment in interwar thought. It focuses on the intellectuals most central to its notoriety: the members of …
Resolutely Black: Conversations with Françoise Vergès and Kafka’s Monkey and Other Phantoms of Africa
Violence: Introduction to the Special Issue
Freud in the Tropics
Cet article revient sur le surréalisme pour montrer de quelles façons la psychanalyse a fourni une lingua franca internationale à la critique de l'humanisme européen et du racisme colonial du milieu du siècle dernier. La Première Guerre mondiale a initié une remise en question des valeurs européennes, qui a été exacerbée par le modernisme de l'entre-deux-guerres et la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Les écrits de Freud ont contribué à cette remise en qu…
Universal Suffrage as Decolonization
This essay reconstructs an important but forgotten dream of twentieth-century political thought: universal suffrage as decolonization. The dream emerged from efforts by Black Atlantic radicals to conscript universal suffrage into wider movements for racial self-expression and cultural revolution. Its proponents believed a mass franchise could enunciate the voice of colonial peoples inside imperial institutions and transform the global order. Recu…
What Was Universal Suffrage
This essay places modern theories of universal suffrage in dialogue with instruments designed to make the voice of the people sensible: colored ballots, daguerreotypes, automatic voting booths. It does so to argue that the expanding franchise across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries came at an unexpected price: as suffrage expanded, the idea of popular voice contracted. Early struggles for suffrage identified the vox populi 's manifestation …
The Left and Henri Bergson
No Social Revolution Without Sexual Revolution
Recent studies have revealed how workers’ movements adapted republicanism into a language of anticapitalism in the nineteenth century. Much less attention has been paid, however, to the role feminists played in this process. This essay addresses this oversight by introducing the voices of the utopian socialists under July Monarchy France. These socialists insisted that there could be no social revolution without sexual revolution. Although they a…
The Demands of Glory: Tocqueville and Terror in Algeria
It is now commonplace to acknowledge Alexis de Tocqueville's support for Algerian colonization. Less well understood, however, is why he also endorsed the French strategy of “total war” in the regency. How was Tocqueville's liberalism linked to the specific shape of violence in Algeria? By situating his Algerian writings in the intersecting intellectual contexts of the 1840s, this essay argues that Tocqueville endorsed total war in Africa because…
The People as a Natural Disaster: Redemptive Violence in Jacobin Political Thought
The trial and execution of Louis XVI served as a founding act of French republican democracy. It was also a scene of irregular justice: no legal warrants or procedural precedents existed for bringing a king to justice before the law. This essay describes how Jacobins crafted a new language of popular agency to overcome that obstacle-the language of redemptive violence. Although redemptive violence had roots in prerevolutionary notions of penal ju…
In Defense of the Terror: Liberty or Death in the French Revolution. In Defense of the Terror: Liberty or Death in the French Revolution . By Sophie Wahnich. Translated by David Fernbach. London: Vers…
"Does Democracy End in Terror?" Transformations of Antitotalitarianism in Postwar France
Does democracy end in terror? This essay examines how this question acquired urgency in postwar French political thought by evaluating the critique of totalitarianism after the 1970s, its antecedents, and the shifting conceptual idioms that connected them. It argues that beginning in the 1970s, the critique of totalitarianism was reorganized around notions of "the political" and "the social" to bring into view totalitarianism's democratic provena…
What Does Queer Theory Teach Us about Intersectionality
What does queer theory teach us about x?” ask Berlant and Warner (1995). “As difficult as it would be to spell out programmatic content for an answer, this simple question still has the power to wrench frames” (p. 348). This challenge comes from an early essay published to circumvent queer theory's appropriation. Its power “to wrench frames” is what I am posing to intersectional research, not only to reflect on what intersectionality has allowed …
What Does Queer Theory Teach Us about Intersectionality
What does queer theory teach us about x?” ask Berlant and Warner (1995). “As difficult as it would be to spell out programmatic content for an answer, this simple question still has the power to wrench frames” (p. 348). This challenge comes from an early essay published to circumvent queer theory's appropriation. Its power “to wrench frames” is what I am posing to intersectional research, not only to reflect on what intersectionality has allowed …
Universal Suffrage as Decolonization
This essay reconstructs an important but forgotten dream of twentieth-century political thought: universal suffrage as decolonization. The dream emerged from efforts by Black Atlantic radicals to conscript universal suffrage into wider movements for racial self-expression and cultural revolution. Its proponents believed a mass franchise could enunciate the voice of colonial peoples inside imperial institutions and transform the global order. Recu…
"Does Democracy End in Terror?" Transformations of Antitotalitarianism in Postwar France
Does democracy end in terror? This essay examines how this question acquired urgency in postwar French political thought by evaluating the critique of totalitarianism after the 1970s, its antecedents, and the shifting conceptual idioms that connected them. It argues that beginning in the 1970s, the critique of totalitarianism was reorganized around notions of "the political" and "the social" to bring into view totalitarianism's democratic provena…
The Demands of Glory: Tocqueville and Terror in Algeria
It is now commonplace to acknowledge Alexis de Tocqueville's support for Algerian colonization. Less well understood, however, is why he also endorsed the French strategy of “total war” in the regency. How was Tocqueville's liberalism linked to the specific shape of violence in Algeria? By situating his Algerian writings in the intersecting intellectual contexts of the 1840s, this essay argues that Tocqueville endorsed total war in Africa because…
No Social Revolution Without Sexual Revolution
Recent studies have revealed how workers’ movements adapted republicanism into a language of anticapitalism in the nineteenth century. Much less attention has been paid, however, to the role feminists played in this process. This essay addresses this oversight by introducing the voices of the utopian socialists under July Monarchy France. These socialists insisted that there could be no social revolution without sexual revolution. Although they a…
The People as a Natural Disaster: Redemptive Violence in Jacobin Political Thought
The trial and execution of Louis XVI served as a founding act of French republican democracy. It was also a scene of irregular justice: no legal warrants or procedural precedents existed for bringing a king to justice before the law. This essay describes how Jacobins crafted a new language of popular agency to overcome that obstacle-the language of redemptive violence. Although redemptive violence had roots in prerevolutionary notions of penal ju…
Decolonization and World Order
Where does new work on decolonization stand in relation to preceding work on empire and postcolonial theory? In what circumstances should we situate decolonization’s ascendance in political theory? This “state-of-the-field” essay surveys a spectrum of recent work and offers a snapshot of generational change. It suggests that new research on decolonization is less indebted to established debates surrounding liberalism, empire, and postcolonial the…
Violence: Introduction to the Special Issue
The sorcerer’s apprentices of interwar France
No concept attracted as much controversy, or muddled ideological identifications so thoroughly, as ‘myth’ in interwar France. By the late 1930s, ‘la mythomanie’ was drawing systematic attention from existentialists, Surrealists, ethnologists, sociologists, and nascent fascist movements. This essay reconsiders this polemical and misunderstood moment in interwar thought. It focuses on the intellectuals most central to its notoriety: the members of …
Freud in the Tropics
Cet article revient sur le surréalisme pour montrer de quelles façons la psychanalyse a fourni une lingua franca internationale à la critique de l'humanisme européen et du racisme colonial du milieu du siècle dernier. La Première Guerre mondiale a initié une remise en question des valeurs européennes, qui a été exacerbée par le modernisme de l'entre-deux-guerres et la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Les écrits de Freud ont contribué à cette remise en qu…
What Does Queer Theory Teach Us about Intersectionality
What does queer theory teach us about x?” ask Berlant and Warner (1995). “As difficult as it would be to spell out programmatic content for an answer, this simple question still has the power to wrench frames” (p. 348). This challenge comes from an early essay published to circumvent queer theory's appropriation. Its power “to wrench frames” is what I am posing to intersectional research, not only to reflect on what intersectionality has allowed …
"Does Democracy End in Terror?" Transformations of Antitotalitarianism in Postwar France
Does democracy end in terror? This essay examines how this question acquired urgency in postwar French political thought by evaluating the critique of totalitarianism after the 1970s, its antecedents, and the shifting conceptual idioms that connected them. It argues that beginning in the 1970s, the critique of totalitarianism was reorganized around notions of "the political" and "the social" to bring into view totalitarianism's democratic provena…
In Defense of the Terror: Liberty or Death in the French Revolution. In Defense of the Terror: Liberty or Death in the French Revolution . By Sophie Wahnich. Translated by David Fernbach. London: Vers…
The People as a Natural Disaster: Redemptive Violence in Jacobin Political Thought
The trial and execution of Louis XVI served as a founding act of French republican democracy. It was also a scene of irregular justice: no legal warrants or procedural precedents existed for bringing a king to justice before the law. This essay describes how Jacobins crafted a new language of popular agency to overcome that obstacle-the language of redemptive violence. Although redemptive violence had roots in prerevolutionary notions of penal ju…
The Demands of Glory: Tocqueville and Terror in Algeria
It is now commonplace to acknowledge Alexis de Tocqueville's support for Algerian colonization. Less well understood, however, is why he also endorsed the French strategy of “total war” in the regency. How was Tocqueville's liberalism linked to the specific shape of violence in Algeria? By situating his Algerian writings in the intersecting intellectual contexts of the 1840s, this essay argues that Tocqueville endorsed total war in Africa because…
No Social Revolution Without Sexual Revolution
Recent studies have revealed how workers’ movements adapted republicanism into a language of anticapitalism in the nineteenth century. Much less attention has been paid, however, to the role feminists played in this process. This essay addresses this oversight by introducing the voices of the utopian socialists under July Monarchy France. These socialists insisted that there could be no social revolution without sexual revolution. Although they a…
What Was Universal Suffrage
This essay places modern theories of universal suffrage in dialogue with instruments designed to make the voice of the people sensible: colored ballots, daguerreotypes, automatic voting booths. It does so to argue that the expanding franchise across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries came at an unexpected price: as suffrage expanded, the idea of popular voice contracted. Early struggles for suffrage identified the vox populi 's manifestation …
The Left and Henri Bergson
Freud in the Tropics
Cet article revient sur le surréalisme pour montrer de quelles façons la psychanalyse a fourni une lingua franca internationale à la critique de l'humanisme européen et du racisme colonial du milieu du siècle dernier. La Première Guerre mondiale a initié une remise en question des valeurs européennes, qui a été exacerbée par le modernisme de l'entre-deux-guerres et la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Les écrits de Freud ont contribué à cette remise en qu…
Universal Suffrage as Decolonization
This essay reconstructs an important but forgotten dream of twentieth-century political thought: universal suffrage as decolonization. The dream emerged from efforts by Black Atlantic radicals to conscript universal suffrage into wider movements for racial self-expression and cultural revolution. Its proponents believed a mass franchise could enunciate the voice of colonial peoples inside imperial institutions and transform the global order. Recu…
Resolutely Black: Conversations with Françoise Vergès and Kafka’s Monkey and Other Phantoms of Africa
Violence: Introduction to the Special Issue
The sorcerer’s apprentices of interwar France
No concept attracted as much controversy, or muddled ideological identifications so thoroughly, as ‘myth’ in interwar France. By the late 1930s, ‘la mythomanie’ was drawing systematic attention from existentialists, Surrealists, ethnologists, sociologists, and nascent fascist movements. This essay reconsiders this polemical and misunderstood moment in interwar thought. It focuses on the intellectuals most central to its notoriety: the members of …
The necessity of philosophical anthropology: On Alfaro Altamirano’s The Belief in Intuition
Decolonization and World Order
Where does new work on decolonization stand in relation to preceding work on empire and postcolonial theory? In what circumstances should we situate decolonization’s ascendance in political theory? This “state-of-the-field” essay surveys a spectrum of recent work and offers a snapshot of generational change. It suggests that new research on decolonization is less indebted to established debates surrounding liberalism, empire, and postcolonial the…
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