Commitment and Complicity in Cultural Theory and Practice

In this book, an international line-up of scholars examines the role of the intellectual in the twenty-first century, looking at the gap between contemporary cultural theory and cultural practice, and asking whether knowledge and methodologies in the humanities can intervene in everyday politics and vice-versa.

BEGUM OZDEN FIRAT is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in Istanbul, Turkey. Her areas of research include visual culture, cultural activism, radical arts and politics. She is currently co-editing a volume entitled Theorizing Cultural Activism: Challenges, Dilemmas, and Potentialities.

SARAH DE MUL is a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders in the Department of Literary Theory at the University of Leuven, Belgium. She has taught and published on literatures in Dutch and English with a particular emphasis on postmodernity and postcoloniality in relation to gender and ethnic identity and memory.

SONJA VAN WICHELEN is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Cultural Sociology, Yale University, USA. Her publications include work on gender, religion and politics, with a particular interest in Southeast Asia.