T i m o t h y M i t c h e l l
Professor of Politics
Department of Politics
New York University
726 Broadway, Room 757
New York, NY 10003-1567
Tel:
212-998 8537
Email: tm5-at-nyu-dot-edu
Fax: 212-995 4184
Web: http://homepages.nyu.edu/~tm5
Research | Writings | Courses
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Research
Fields of research, writing, and lecturing
The politics of expertise The creation of economic knowledge and the making of “the economy” and “the market” as objects of politics; expert knowledge and the formation of the modern state; representation and objectivity as forms of socio-political practice; the past and future of Middle East expertise in the United States.
Political ecology Sustainable agriculture and land reform; hydropolitics of the Nile valley; the discourse of development.
Colonialism and modernity The place of colonialism in the making of the modern world; forms of reason, power, and truth that define the experience of modernity; the nature of the colonial and modern state and its relation to law, property, and violence.
Visual culture and the built environment The history and politics of “the world as exhibition;” the making of the colonial city; vernacular architecture in Egypt.
Writings
Books
- Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity University of California Press, 2002.
- Questions of Modernity University of Minnesota Press, 2000 (editor and contributor).
- Colonising Egypt University of California Press, 1991.
Selected Articles
- The Work of Economics: How a Discipline Makes its World (.pdf) (2005), European Journal of Sociology, 45 no. 2: 297-320.
- Economists and the Economy in the Twentieth Century (2005), in The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences: Positivism and its Epistemological Others, edited by George Steinmetz.
- The Properties of
Markets (2004). Working Paper No. 2, Cultural Political Economy
Research Group, University of Lancaster.
- The Middle East in the Past and Future of Social Science (2003). In The Politics of Knowledge: Area Studies and the Disciplines, edited by David Szanton.
- The Stage of Modernity (2000). In Questions of Modernity, edited by Timothy Mitchell
- Society, Economy, and the State Effect (1999). In State/Culture: State-Formation After the Cultural Turn, edited by George Steinmetz.
- Fixing the Economy (1998). Cultural Studies, vol. 12, no. 1, 82-101.
- The
Object of Development: America's Egypt (1995). In Power of
Development, edited by Jonathan Crush.
- The Limits of the State (1991). American Political Science Review, vol. 85, 77-96
- Everyday
Metaphors of Power (1990). Theory and Society, vol. 19, 545-577
The Authority of Knowledge in a Global Age (2004-2007)
A project of the International Center for Advanced Studies at NYU, directed by Timothy Mitchell. For details of the project, including the weekly seminars and year-long senior, post-doctoral, and dissertation fellowships, click on the link above.
Development After Development (2001-2003)
Funded by the Ford Foundation and the Hagop Kevorkian Center, directed by Julia Elyachar and Timothy Mitchell
Economic Representations (2001-)
Directed by David Ruccio, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation
Crossing Borders: Revitalizing Area Studies (1997-2003)
A project of the Hagop Kevorkian Center at NYU, directed by Timothy Mitchell, funded by the Ford Foundation
Questions of Modernity (1993-1999)
Directed by Timothy Mitchell and Lila Abu-Lughod, funded by the Social Science Research Council and the Ford Foundation
NYU
Links
Department of Middle Eastern Studies
Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
International Center for Advanced Studies
NYU Directory
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