Andrea Mura
Biographic Data
| ID | 911417 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrea Mura |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrea |
| FAMILY NAME | Mura |
| SIGNATURE | MURA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Aberdeen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3439-5560 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Carl Schmitt's International Order
The article interrogates Schmitt’s conceptualisation of the modern international order, highlighting its Eurocentric and colonial premises. While Schmitt’s spatial conception of world order is framed primarily as a juridical effort to regulate war through international law – even as it acknowledges the extra-legal character of colonial confrontations – a decolonial reading reveals an intertwined logic of exclusion, racialisation, and genocidal pr…
Political and economic theology after Carl Schmitt
Carl Schmitt’s critical insights into ‘economic-technical thinking’ and the dominant role that a ‘magical technicity’ is said to assume in the social horizon of his times offers an opportunity to reframe contemporary debates on political and economic theology, exposing a theological core behind technocratic administration. Starting from this premise, the article engages with recent inquiries into so-called ‘debt economy’, assessing the affective …
The Oracles of Neoliberal Governance
Nodas. Launeddas at the Time of Crisis
Dating back to 3000 years ago, Launeddas are a wind instrument from the Nuragic civilisation (Sardinia, 18th century BC/2nd century AD) bearing the marks of contaminations from all over the Mediterranean Sea and beyond. Nearly vanished between the 1960s and 1970s, Launeddas are extraordinarily alive and ever more widespread today. In today’s "time of crisis", they found levels of artistic excellence that just some decades ago looked no longer att…
Sunni Islam and Islamism 1
Shiism represents Islam’s largest minority branch with up to 15 per cent of the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims. This chapter discusses the sacred foundations of Shiism with reference to which subsequent significant Shia approaches to politics have developed. These foundations were laid during a period where the ‘proto-Shia’ lost the early confrontations over the Prophet’s succession. The chapter examines the period characterised by the ‘quietist’ re…
National finitude and the paranoid style of the one
Convergent (il)liberalism in the Mediterranean? Some notes on Egyptian (post-)authoritarianism and Italian (post-)democracy
This paper explores the hypothesis of a convergence between ‘backsliding’ European liberal democracies and the ‘pseudo-liberalization’ of Middle Eastern authoritarian systems (Cavatorta, 2010) by considering the similarities, beyond the well-known differences, between Italy and Egypt. We suggest that standard indicators of regime type (e.g. Polity IV Authority Index) fail to capture important trends both in the evolution of both the forms of poli…
A genealogical inquiry into early Islamism
This article inquires into the ideological vision of Hasan al-Banna (1906–1949), one of the most influential figures of Islamist thought. By assuming a discourse theory perspective, I argue that al-Banna's Islamist discourse was genealogically caught between a traditional pan-Islamic vocation and modern ways of articulating political discourse, such as nationalism and Arab nationalism. Following the traumatic encounter between tradition and moder…
Convergent (il)liberalism in the Mediterranean? Some notes on Egyptian (post-)authoritarianism and Italian (post-)democracy
This paper explores the hypothesis of a convergence between ‘backsliding’ European liberal democracies and the ‘pseudo-liberalization’ of Middle Eastern authoritarian systems (Cavatorta, 2010) by considering the similarities, beyond the well-known differences, between Italy and Egypt. We suggest that standard indicators of regime type (e.g. Polity IV Authority Index) fail to capture important trends both in the evolution of both the forms of poli…
A genealogical inquiry into early Islamism
This article inquires into the ideological vision of Hasan al-Banna (1906–1949), one of the most influential figures of Islamist thought. By assuming a discourse theory perspective, I argue that al-Banna's Islamist discourse was genealogically caught between a traditional pan-Islamic vocation and modern ways of articulating political discourse, such as nationalism and Arab nationalism. Following the traumatic encounter between tradition and moder…
A genealogical inquiry into early Islamism
This article inquires into the ideological vision of Hasan al-Banna (1906–1949), one of the most influential figures of Islamist thought. By assuming a discourse theory perspective, I argue that al-Banna's Islamist discourse was genealogically caught between a traditional pan-Islamic vocation and modern ways of articulating political discourse, such as nationalism and Arab nationalism. Following the traumatic encounter between tradition and moder…
Convergent (il)liberalism in the Mediterranean? Some notes on Egyptian (post-)authoritarianism and Italian (post-)democracy
This paper explores the hypothesis of a convergence between ‘backsliding’ European liberal democracies and the ‘pseudo-liberalization’ of Middle Eastern authoritarian systems (Cavatorta, 2010) by considering the similarities, beyond the well-known differences, between Italy and Egypt. We suggest that standard indicators of regime type (e.g. Polity IV Authority Index) fail to capture important trends both in the evolution of both the forms of poli…
National finitude and the paranoid style of the one
Sunni Islam and Islamism 1
Shiism represents Islam’s largest minority branch with up to 15 per cent of the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims. This chapter discusses the sacred foundations of Shiism with reference to which subsequent significant Shia approaches to politics have developed. These foundations were laid during a period where the ‘proto-Shia’ lost the early confrontations over the Prophet’s succession. The chapter examines the period characterised by the ‘quietist’ re…
Nodas. Launeddas at the Time of Crisis
Dating back to 3000 years ago, Launeddas are a wind instrument from the Nuragic civilisation (Sardinia, 18th century BC/2nd century AD) bearing the marks of contaminations from all over the Mediterranean Sea and beyond. Nearly vanished between the 1960s and 1970s, Launeddas are extraordinarily alive and ever more widespread today. In today’s "time of crisis", they found levels of artistic excellence that just some decades ago looked no longer att…
Political and economic theology after Carl Schmitt
Carl Schmitt’s critical insights into ‘economic-technical thinking’ and the dominant role that a ‘magical technicity’ is said to assume in the social horizon of his times offers an opportunity to reframe contemporary debates on political and economic theology, exposing a theological core behind technocratic administration. Starting from this premise, the article engages with recent inquiries into so-called ‘debt economy’, assessing the affective …
The Oracles of Neoliberal Governance
Carl Schmitt's International Order
The article interrogates Schmitt’s conceptualisation of the modern international order, highlighting its Eurocentric and colonial premises. While Schmitt’s spatial conception of world order is framed primarily as a juridical effort to regulate war through international law – even as it acknowledges the extra-legal character of colonial confrontations – a decolonial reading reveals an intertwined logic of exclusion, racialisation, and genocidal pr…
Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art (2 works)