{"id":17,"date":"2013-10-21T17:23:05","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T17:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/ikamola\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2021-08-24T16:56:48","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T20:56:48","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/ikamola\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Research Interests:<\/h3>\n<p>Globalization; IR theory; international political economy; African politics; political economy of higher education; African political theory.<\/p>\n<h3>Books<\/h3>\n<p><em><i><img loading=\"lazy\" id=\"imgBlkFront\" class=\"a-dynamic-image image-stretch-vertical frontImage\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51-pCleuhqL._SX312_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"278\" data-a-dynamic-image=\"{&quot;https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51-pCleuhqL._SX312_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg&quot;:[314,499],&quot;https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51-pCleuhqL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg&quot;:[218,346]}\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" id=\"imgBlkFront\" class=\"a-dynamic-image image-stretch-vertical frontImage\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41gyfKvmgfL._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"278\" data-a-dynamic-image=\"{&quot;https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41gyfKvmgfL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg&quot;:[231,346],&quot;https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41gyfKvmgfL._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg&quot;:[333,499]}\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" id=\"imgBlkFront\" class=\"a-dynamic-image\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41jR8Q2EIQL._SX312_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"174\" height=\"276\" data-a-dynamic-image=\"{&quot;https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41jR8Q2EIQL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg&quot;:[218,346],&quot;https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41jR8Q2EIQL._SX312_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg&quot;:[314,499]}\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"lazyload b-trigger loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/covers\/big\/9781138840331\/0000\/the-transnational-politics-of-higher-education.jpg\" alt=\"The Transnational Politics of Higher Education : Contesting the Global \/ Transforming the Local - Meng-Hsuan Chou\" width=\"185\" height=\"278\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/covers\/big\/9781138840331\/0000\/the-transnational-politics-of-higher-education.jpg\" data-target=\"image\" data-image=\"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/covers\/500\/9781138840331\/0000\/the-transnational-politics-of-higher-education.jpg\" data-ll-status=\"loaded\" \/><\/i><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><i>Free Speech and Koch Money: Manufacturing a Campus Culture War <\/i><\/em>(with Ralph Wilson, forthcoming 2021 [Pluto Press])<\/p>\n<p><em>Making the World Global: American Universities and the Production of the Global Imaginary <\/em>(Duke University, 2019). (table of contents, preface, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dukeupress.edu\/Assets\/PubMaterials\/978-1-4780-0473-8_601.pdf\">introduction<\/a>)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reviewed in: <a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/article\/786753\">American Quarterly<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1177\/0094306120976390q\">Contemporary Sociology<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/networks.h-net.org\/node\/28443\/reviews\/5737213\/barkawi-kamola-making-world-global-us-universities-and-production\">H-Net<\/a>, International Politics Reviews (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/gp\/journal\/41312\/volumes-issues\/latest-issue\">forum<\/a>\u00a0+ <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5idXp6c3Byb3V0LmNvbS8xMzE1OTkwLnJzcw\/episode\/QnV6enNwcm91dC04MTQ2OTU0?sa=X&amp;ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwiozNWlwsXyAhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQCg&amp;hl=en\">podcast<\/a>), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/perspectives-on-politics\/article\/making-the-world-global-us-universities-and-the-production-of-the-global-imaginary-by-isaac-a-kamola-durham-nc-duke-university-press-2019-304p-9995-cloth-2695-paper\/F424A0D63BD5EFEA562A2331768B0EDA\">Perspectives on Politics<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/article\/785082\/summary\">Reviews in American History<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Politics of African Anticolonial Archive<\/em>, Shiera S. el-Malik and Isaac Kamola, eds. (London: Rowman and Littlefield International, <a href=\"https:\/\/rowman.com\/ISBN\/9781783487899\/Politics-of-African-Anticolonial-Archive\">2017<\/a>).<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>Global Flows: Higher Education and Transnational Politics<\/i>, Meng-Hsuan Chou, Isaac Kamola, and Tamson Pietsch, eds. (New York: Routledge, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/The-Transnational-Politics-of-Higher-Education-Contesting-the-Global-\/Chou-Kamola-Pietsch\/p\/book\/9780367597009\">2016<\/a>). (<a href=\"http:\/\/era.ideasoneurope.eu\/2016\/07\/01\/towards-transnational-politics-higher-education\/\">overview<\/a>)<\/p>\n<h3>\u00a0<b>Edited Contributions<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>\u201cHigher Education and World Politics\u201d (with Neema Noori), Symposium in <i>PS: Political Science and Politics<\/i>, 47(3), July 2014, 599-627. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/16916353\/Higher_Education_and_World_Politics\">PDF<\/a>)<\/p>\n<h3>\u00a0<b>Peer Reviewed Journal Articles<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>\u201cIR, the Critic, and the World: From Reifying the Discipline to Decolonizing the University,\u201d\u00a0<em>Millennium: Journal of International Studies<\/em>, 2020, 1-26. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/49807498\/IR_the_Critic_and_the_World_From_Reifying_the_Discipline_to_Decolonising_the_University\">PDF<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFlipping the Academic Conference, or How We Wrote a Peer-Reviewed Journal Article in a Day,\u201d\u00a0with Ilan Baron, Jonathan Havercroft, Jonneke Koomen, &amp; Alex Prichard, <em>Alternatives:\u00a0<\/em><em>Global, Local, Political<\/em>, 2020, 1-17. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/49807856\/Flipping_the_Academic_Conference_or_How_We_Wrote_a_Peer_Reviewed_Journal_Article_in_a_Day\">PDF<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Long \u201868: African Universities, Decolonization, and the Emergence of a World University\u00a0System,\u201d <em>Cultural Politics<\/em>, 15(3), 2019, 303-314. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/49807935\/The_Long_68_African_Universities_Decolonization_and_the_Emergence_of_a_World_University_System\">PDF<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDear Administrators: To Protect Your Faculty from Right-Wing Attacks, Follow the Money,\u201d\u00a0<em>Journal of Academic Freedom<\/em>, 10, 2019, 1-22. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aaup.org\/sites\/default\/files\/kamola.pdf\">PDF<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFive Tips on Contingency,\u201d <em>PS: Political Science and Politics<\/em>, 52(3), July 2019, 522-523. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/50969271\/_Five_Tips_on_Contingency_\">PDF<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLiberal Pacification and the Phenomenology of Violence,\u201d with Ilan Baron, Jonathan Havercroft,\u00a0Jonneke Koomen, Justin Murphy &amp; Alex Prichard, <em>International Studies Quarterly<\/em>, 63(1), 2018,\u00a0199-212. (<a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/isq\/article\/63\/1\/199\/5363835\">PDF<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPirate Capitalism, or the Primitive Accumulation of Capital Itself,\u201d <em>Millennium: Journal of International <\/em><em>Studies.\u00a0<\/em>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/36769290\/Pirate_Capitalism_or_the_Primitive_Accumulation_of_Capital_Itself\">PDF<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMemories from Conferences Past: Reflections on Academic Knowledge Production,\u201d\u00a0<em>Borderlands<\/em>, 16(2), 2017, 1-13. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/36557695\/Memories_from_Conferences_Past_Reflections_on_Academic_Knowledge_Production\">PDF<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSteve Biko and a Critique of Global Governance as White Liberalism,\u201d <i>African Identities<\/i>, 2014, 1-15. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/6457989\/Steve_Biko_and_a_Critique_of_Global_Governance_as_White_Liberalism\">PDF<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cU.S. Universities and the Production of the Global Imaginary,\u201d <i>British Journal of Politics and International Relations<\/i>,<i> <\/i>16, 2014, 515-533. (<a href=\"http:\/\/https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/1796435\/U.S._Universities_and_the_Production_of_the_Global_Imaginary\">PDF<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy Global?: Diagnosing the Globalization Literature Within a Political Economy of Higher Education,\u201d <i>International Political Sociology<\/i>, 7(1), March 2013, 41-58. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/1796437\/Why_Global_Diagnosing_the_Globalization_Literature_Within_a_Political_Economy_of_Higher_Education\">PDF<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPursuing Excellence in a \u2018World Class African University\u2019: The Mamdani Affair and the Politics of \u2018Global\u2019 Higher Education,\u201d <i>Journal of Higher Education in Africa<\/i>, 9(1&amp;2), 2011, 147-168. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/1796438\/Pursuing_Excellence_in_a_World_Class_African_University_The_Mamdani_Affair_and_the_Politics_of_Global_Higher_Education\">PDF<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCreating Commons: Divided Governance, Participatory Management, and Struggles Against the Enclosure of the University\u201d (with Eli Meyerhoff), <i>Polygraph<\/i> 21, 2009, 15-37. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/1796441\/Creating_Commons_Divided_Governance_Participatory_Management_and_Struggles_Against_the_Enclosure_of_the_University\">PDF<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Global Coffee Economy and the Production of Genocide in Rwanda,\u201d <i>Third World Quarterly <\/i>28(3), April 2007, 571-592.\u00a0 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/1796445\/The_Global_Coffee_Economy_and_the_Production_of_Genocide_in_Rwanda\">PDF<\/a>)<\/p>\n<h3><b>Book Chapters<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>\u201cSearching for Sugar Man: Apartheid and the Global Imaginary,\u201d <em>Revisiting the Global Imaginary: <\/em><br \/>\n<em>Theories, Ideologies, Subjectivities: Essays in Honour of Manfred Steger<\/em>, Chris Hudson and Erin K.<br \/>\nWilson, eds. (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019), 67-83. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/50997074\/Searching_for_Sugar_Man_Thinking_on_the_Border_of_the_Global_Apartheid_Imaginary\">PDF<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The Arab Spring, U.S. Intervention, and the Politics of Rwandan Remorse,\u201d <em>U.S. Approaches to the <\/em><em>Arab Uprisings: International Relations and Democracy Promotion<\/em>, Amentahru Wahlrab, Michael J.McNeal, and Matthew S. Weinert, eds. (London: I. B. Tauris, 2018), 75-95. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/35991532\/The_Arab_Spring_US_Intervention_in_Libya_and_the_Lingering_Politcs_of_Rwanda_Remorse\">PDF<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIntroduction: Politics of African Anticolonial Archive\u201d (with Sheira S. el-Malik), in <em>Politics of African <\/em><em>Anticolonial Archive<\/em>, Shiera S. el-Malik and Isaac Kamola, eds. (London: Rowman and Littlefield International, 2017), 1-15. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/36181995\/Introduction_Politics_of_African_Anticolonial_Archive\">PDF<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmilcar Cabral and a Politics of Realism without Abstraction,\u201d <em>Politics of African Anticolonial <\/em><em>Archive<\/em>, Shiera S. el-Malik and Isaac Kamola, eds. (London: Rowman and Littlefield International, 2017), 83-99. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/34090754\/Realism_without_Abstraction_Amilcar_Cabral_and_a_Politics_of_the_World\">PDF<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Transnational Politics of Higher Education\u201d (with Meng-Hsuan Chou and Tamson Pietsch), <em>The Transnational Politics of Higher Education: Contesting the Global\/Transforming the Local<\/em>, Meng-Hsuan Chou, Isaac Kamola, and Tamson Pietsch, eds. (New York: Routledge, 2016), 1-20.\u00a0 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/24103818\/_2016_Introduction_the_Transnational_Politics_of_Higher_Education\">PDF<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSituating \u2018The Global University\u2019 in South Africa,\u201d <i>Global Flows: Higher Education and Transnational Politics<\/i>, Meng-Hsuan Chou, Isaac Kamola, and Tamson Pietsch, eds. (New York: Routledge, 2016). (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/36182030\/Situating_the_Global_University_in_South_Africa\">PDF<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfrica and Globalization,\u201d <em>The SAGE Handbook of Globalization<\/em>, Manfred B. Steger, Paul Battersby\u00a0and Joseph Siracusa, eds. (London: SAGE Publications, 2014), 231-243.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Politics of Knowledge Production: On Structure and the World of \u2018The Wire,\u2019\u201d <em>Everything is <\/em><em>Connected: The Politics of HBO\u2019s \u2018The Wire\u2019<\/em>, Shirin Deylami and Jonathan Havercroft, eds.\u00a0(New York: Routledge, 2014), 59-86.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCapitalism at Sea: Piracy and \u2018State Failure\u2019 in the Gulf of Aden,\u201d <i>Globalization, Social Movements and Peacebuilding, <\/i>Jackie Smith and Ernesto Verdeja, eds. (Syracuse University Press, 2013), 134-158. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/1796439\/Capitalism_at_Sea_Piracy_and_State_Failure_in_the_Gulf_of_Aden\">PDF<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReading \u2018the Global\u2019 in the Absence of Africa,\u201d <i>Thinking International Relations Differently<\/i>, Arlene B. Tickner and David L. Blaney, eds. (Routledge, 2012), 183-204. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/1796442\/Reading_the_Global_in_the_Absence_of_Africa\">PDF<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><b>Symposia, Review Essays, and Invited Articles<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>\u201cQAnon and the Digital Lumpenproletariat,\u201d <em>New Political Science<\/em>, 46(3), 2021, 231-34. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/50969411\/QAnon_and_the_Digital_Lumpenproletariat\">PDF<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe University and the World,\u201d <em>International Politics Review<\/em>, 2021. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/50969468\/The_university_and_the_world\">PDF<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Time for Anticolonial Theory\u201d (review essay), <em>Contemporary Political Theory<\/em>, 18(2), 2017, 67-74.\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/34820634\/A_time_for_anticolonial_theory_Review_Essay_\">PDF<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHigher Education and World Politics\u201d (with Neema Noori), <i>PS: Political Science and Politics<\/i>, 47(3), July 2014, 599-603. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/16916353\/Higher_Education_and_World_Politics\">PDF<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe African University as \u2018Global\u2019 University,\u201d <i>PS: Political Science and Politics<\/i>, 47(3), July 2014, 604-607. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/6458008\/The_African_University_as_Global_University\">PDF<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCoffee and Genocide: A Political Economy of Violence in Rwanda,\u201d <i>Transition: An International Review<\/i>, 99 (2008), 54-70. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/1796444\/Coffee_and_Genocide_A_Political_Economy_of_Violence_in_Rwanda\">PDF<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Book Reviews (<\/strong>selected)<\/h3>\n<p>Emilio de \u00cdpola, trans. Gavin Arnall, <em>Althusser, The Infinite Farewell <\/em>(Duke 2018). In <em>New Political <\/em><em>Science<\/em>, 2020, 42(2), 246-249. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/50969307\/Review_of_de_Ipolas_Althusser_The_Infinite_Farewell_\">PDF<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Nancy MacLean, <em>Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right&#8217;s Stealth Plan for <\/em><em>America <\/em>(Viking, 2017). In <em>Populism, <\/em>2018, 1, 214-218. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/37945179\/Review_MacLeans_Democracy_in_Chains_\">PDF<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Peter Koehn and Milton Obamba, <em>The Transnationally Partnered University: Insights from Research <\/em><em>and Sustainable Development Collaborations in Africa<\/em> (Palgrave, 2014). In <em>Journal of Modern <\/em><em>African Studies<\/em>, 2016 54(1), 171-172<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Media and Blog Posts (selected)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;Whom Does Campus Reform Target and What Are the Effects?&#8221; (with\u00a0Hans-Joerg Tiede, Samantha McCarthy, and Alyson K. Spurgas, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aaup.org\/article\/data-snapshot-whom-does-campus-reform-target-and-what-are-effects#.YSKrui-ZOT8\">Academe<\/a> (AAUP), Spring 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere Does the Bizarre Hysteria About \u2018Critical Race Theory\u2019 Come From? Follow the Money!,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/blogs\/just-visiting\/guest-blog-where-does-bizarre-hysteria-about-\u2018critical-race-theory\u2019-come-follow\"><em>Inside Higher Ed<\/em><\/a> (June 3, 2021)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCrashing the Academic Conversation,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/crashing-the-academic-conversation\/\"><em>Chronicle of Higher Education <\/em><\/a>(July 9, 2017)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research Interests: Globalization; IR theory; international political economy; African politics; political economy of higher education; African political theory. Books Free Speech and Koch Money: Manufacturing a Campus Culture War (with Ralph Wilson, forthcoming 2021 [Pluto Press]) Making the World Global: American Universities and the Production of the Global Imaginary (Duke University, 2019). 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