Academic Editor, Third World Quarterly
Associate Professor of Political Science and Africana Studies and Chair of Political Science, Vassar College, USA
Research interests:
Postcolonial diplomatic theory, colonialism, race, ethics and the mediation of estrangement, politics of aesthetics, humanitarianism / humanitarian reason, the politics of redemption and popular culture in urban Africa
About
Sam Okoth Opondo is Associate Professor in Political Science and Africana Studies at Vassar College N.Y and an Academic Editor on Third World Quarterly. He has written journal articles and book chapters on the often-overlooked amateur diplomacies of everyday life, aesthetics, ethics, humanitarianism, postcolonial cities, the politics of genre and cultural translation in Africa. He is the co-author (with Michael J. Shapiro) of Passages: Geo-analysis and the Aesthetics of Precarity (Forthcoming, Manchester University Press), Diplomatic Para-citations: Genre, Foreign Bodies, and the Ethics of Co-habitation (Rowman & Littlefield 2022) and co-edited (with Michael J. Shapiro) The New Violent Cartography: Geo-Analysis After the Aesthetic Turn (Routledge, 2012).
Dr Opondo is also a contributing editor and member of the International Editorial Board of the Sage Handbook of Diplomacy, the editorial team of International Political Sociology, and serves on the Editorial Council of Contexto Internacional: Journal of Global Connections.
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