Anuja Bose
267 19th Ave S
Minneapolis,
MN
55455
Anuja Bose is an assistant professor of political theory in the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Her research focuses on political theorists situated in the nexus between Black political thought and anti-colonial political thought. Within this tradition, she is interested in how thinkers interrogate and reformulate central political problems related to solidarity; economic and political self-determination; social and economic rights; popular sovereignty; and the relationship between state and civil society.
She is currently finishing her first book, The Politics of the Wretched: Fanon and the Practice of Transcontinental Solidarity (Duke University Press), which reads across Frantz Fanon’s work to recover his account of “the wretched” and of the practices through which the dispossessed build solidarity across Africa, Asia, and the Americas. She is also beginning research for a second book, The Wretched in Practice, on contemporary movements of the landless in South Africa, Brazil, and India. Drawing on archival and ethnographic work with Abahlali baseMjondolo, the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra, and Ekta Parishad, it asks how shared struggles over land forge political identities and collective agency that exceed national boundaries.
Educational Background
- Ph.D: Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles
Specialties
- Black Political Thought; Anti-Colonial Thought & Anti-Imperial Thought; Political Theory of Empire and Imperialism; Critical Race and Feminist Theory; Modern & Contemporary Political Theory.