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Jimmy Casas Klausen
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Jimmy Casas Klausen writes and teaches on modern and contemporary European political theory in a global frame. On the one hand, this entails analyzing how European political thought since the early modern period registers Europeans' awareness of the wonder and violence of contacts across societies. On the other hand, he studies how the legacies of these contacts across societies have generated hybrid cultures and also strong cultural differences, and how minority cultural communities are provoked to develop new ways to navigate the modes of governance they are subject to.
He is currently working on two projects. First, he is publishing a series of articles on political theory and the British empire, which includes studies of settler-colonialism in Locke, of civilizational discourse in Arendt’s analysis of Briton-Afrikaner-Khoikhoi relations, of concepts of life and harm in Gandhi’s and Ghose’s writings against the British Raj, and of race and epistemology in J. S. Mill’s writing on India.
Second, with fellowship support from ACLS and the Institute for Research in the Humanities, he has begun a research project, “Unknown Political Bodies: Negative Anthropology, Political Theory, and Indigenous Societies,” which focuses on national policies with respect to so-called “uncontacted” tribes in Amazonia and elsewhere in order to ask the following questions: what effects do advocacy organizations such as Survival International and Cultural Survival produce when they adopt the rhetoric of “survival” and pressure states to grant and administer protections to vulnerable populations?; what assumptions about “humanity” are wrapped up in the liberal or multicultural “right to culture”?; how might the political terrain of diverse societies look if theorists abandoned “survival” for a different concept of living? Through an engagement with Michel Foucault (on biopolitics) and Georges Canguilhem (on health as a play of norms of living) and other postwar French theorists, this project regrounds theories of minority group survival in concepts of living that can encompass both endurance and exuberance.
Klausen also maintains active research profiles in radical left political theory (anarchism and communism), theories of hospitality in the Enlightenment and postcolonial periods, and political thought in the South Asian subcontinent between c. 1875 and 1950.
Klausen has been recipient of a grant from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and was also recently a Race, Ethnicity, Indigeneity Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities.
He has published in the journals Polity, Theory & Event, The Journal of Politics, Political Theory, and Law, Culture, and the Humanities. He has also participated in discussions of the politics of sexuality and secularity in the SSRC's online forum, The Immanent Frame. Klausen's book, "Fugitive Rousseau: Slavery, Primitivism, and Political Freedom," is forthcoming from Fordham University Press, in its "Just Ideas" series.
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Recent Publications
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Jimmy Klausen "Jeremy Waldron’s Partial Kant: Indigenous Proximity, Colonial Injustice, Cultural Particularism," Polity 46.2 (April 2014).
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Jimmy Klausen, “Reservations on Hospitality: Contact and Vulnerability in Kant and Indigenous Action.” In Hospitality and World Politics. Palgrave Studies in International Relations. Edited by Gideon Baker. Palgrave-Macmillan. 2013. 197-218.
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Jimmy Klausen, "Jacques-Louis David's Adieux: The Micropolitics of Sovereignty at the Bourbon Restoration." Law, Culture, and the Humanities (2013).
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Jimmy Klausen, "No—Your Other Left: Newman's The Politics of Postanarchism," Theory & Event 15.1 (2012).
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Jimmy Klausen, "Reply to Gündoğdu." Political Theory 39, 5 (2011): 668-73.
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Jimmy Klausen, and James Martel, coeditors. How Not to Be Governed: Readings and Interpretations from a Critical Anarchist Left.
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Jimmy Klausen
“The Late Foucault’s Premodernity.” In How Not to Be Governed: Readings and Interpretations from a Critical Anarchist Left. Eds. James Martel and Jimmy Casas Klausen. Lexington Books, 2010.
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Jimmy Klausen "Hannah Arendt's Antiprimitivism," Political Theory 38.3 (June 2010): 394-423.
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Jimmy Klausen
"Room Enough: America, Natural Liberty, and Consent in Locke’s Second Treatise.” Journal of Politics 69.3 (August 2007): 760-69.
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Jimmy Klausen
". . . the new-old enigma, of sovereignty.” Review of Jacques Derrida’s Rogues: Two Essays on Reason (2005). Theory & Event 9.3 (2006).
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Jimmy Klausen
"Imperial Histories/Imperial Tragedy; or, America’s Middle East.” Review of Mahmood Mamdani’s Good Muslim, Bad Muslim (2004) and Rashid Khalidi’s Resurrecting Empire (2004). Theory & Event 8.4 (2005).
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Jimmy Klausen
"Of Hobbes and Hospitality in Diderot’s Supplement to the Voyage of Bougainville.” Polity 37.2 (April 2005): 167-92.
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Current Courses taught for Spring 2012-2013
209 - Intro to Political Theory
Instructors: Jimmy Klausen Field: Political Theory
Section Number: 001
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506 - Topics: Political Theories of Imperialism
Instructors: Jimmy Klausen Field: Political Theory
Section Number: 001
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