Barnor Hesse is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of East London. He is editor of Un/Settled Multiculturalisms: Diasporas, Entanglements, Transruptions (Zed Press, 2000).

Recent articles

The military might of western power is matched by its ideology’s closed assurance in the face of challenges to and victims of its ‘war on terrorism’. Defusing such opposition is the work of a ‘cynical reason’ that threatens to silence dissidence, cancel historical awareness, and collapse the process of politics itself.