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Vanita Seth
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Associate Professor of Politics |
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Email: |
vseth@ucsc.edu |
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(831) 459-4443 Office
(831) 459-3125 Fax |
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119 Merrill |
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Office Hours: |
Mondays 10 AM-12 PM |
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Vanita Seth’s research is concerned with the historical conditions that produce contemporary forms of selfhood and representations of difference. She is currently exploring these topics in a manuscript titled Genealogies of Difference: European Representations of the Amerindians and Indians. Her research and teaching also draw connections between the history and philosophy of science, conceptual histories of modernity, nineteenth century anthropology, histories of gender and histories of racial discourse. Vanita's current work is concerned with the historical emergence of 'individuality'. She is also one of the editors of the journal Postcolonial Studies. |
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"Tyranny of Race" (Review Essay) Thesis 11 vol. 79 (2004)
"Difference with a Difference: Wild Men, Gods and Other Protagonists" in Parallax 9.4 (2003): 75-87.
"Self and Similitude: Translating Difference (Modern Colonialism and Renaissance Conquests)," Postcolonial Studies Journal 4.3 (2001): 297-309.
Book Reviews
Review of Social and Political Philosophy - a Contemporary Introduction (by John Christman) in the Australian Political Science Journal 39.3 (2004): 583-584
"On Authenticity and the Closet" Review of Feminism, the Family, and the Politics of the Closet. Lesbian and Gay Displacement (by Cheshire Calhoun) and Beyond the Closet. The Transformation of Gay and Lesbian Life (by Steven Seidman) in Lesbian and Gay Studies Newsletter 30.1-2 (2004): 9-12.
Review of On Post-colonial Futures (by Bill Ashcroft) in Change, Peace and Security, 15.1 (2003): 89-91. |
| Courses Taught | |
POLI-03-01 - Keywords: Concepts of Politics
POLI-103-01 - Feminist Interventions
POLI-105B-01 - Early Modern Political Thought
POLI-190Q-01 - Theorizing Modernity
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Ph.D., University of Melbourne, Australia, 2003 |
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