1 CURRICULUM VITAE Fuyuki Kurasawa April 2006 GENERAL INFORMATION Work Address: 2088 Vari Hall Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts tel: 416-736-2100, ext. 77990 York University fax: 416-736-5730 4700 Keele St. email: [email protected] Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada Born 7 February 1972; Montréal, Québec, Canada Citizenship: Canadian Languages (spoken, read and written): English and French Areas of Specialization: social, political and cultural theory; political sociology; cultural sociology and cultural studies; political economy; visual studies Substantive Research: intercultural analysis of Western modernity; global justice and human rights; rethinking Canada; representations of distant suffering Education 1996-2000: Ph.D., Sociology, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia Ph.D. Thesis: "The Ethnological Imagination: Western Social Theory and the Cross-Cultural Critique of Modernity" (Supervisors: Peter Beilharz, Johann Arnason, and Joel Kahn) 1993-1995: M.A., Political Economy, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada M.A. Thesis: "Globalizations, Power, Marginality: Transnational Migrations and the Restructuring of the Urban" (thesis passed with distinction; Supervisors: Rianne Mahon and Michael Dolan) 1994: Participant, International Summer School in Advanced Social Theory, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom 1990-1993: B.Soc.Sci. (Hons.), Political Science, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada (graduated summa cum laude) Current Position July 2006- : Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, York University July 2001-July 2006: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, York University 2 Previous Positions September 2003-August 2004: Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Fellow, Department of Sociology, Yale University September 2003-August 2004: Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Fellow, Department of Sociology, New York University September 1999-May 2000: Visiting Fellow, Institute of Political Economy, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada March 1997-June 1999: Casual Lecturer, School of Sociology, Politics and Anthropology, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia May-June 1994: Visiting Research Fellow, Arbetslivscentrum (Swedish Centre for Working Life), Stockholm, Sweden Honours and Awards 2004- : Faculty Fellow, Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA 2003-4: Fulbright Scholar, Canada-U.S. Fulbright Program, Foundation for Educational Exchange Between Canada and the U.S.A. and Council for International Exchange of Scholars 2003-4: Visiting Fellowship, Center for Cultural Sociology and Department of Sociology, Yale University 2003-4: Visiting Fellowship, Department of Sociology, New York University 2000-1: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, York University 2000-2001: Fulbright Scholarship, Canada-U.S. Fulbright Program, Foundation for Educational Exchange Between Canada and the United States (declined) 2000-2001: Finalist (reversion list), Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University 2000: Young Canadian Leader, The Globe and Mail newspaper (July 1 issue) 1998: Finalist, Leo P. Chall Dissertation Fellowship in the History of Sociology, International Sociological Association 1996-2000: Commonwealth Doctoral Fellowship, Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan, Association of Commonwealth Universities and Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee 1995: Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement, Carleton University 1994: Canadian Participant, Swedish-Canadian Academic Foundation Program 1993-1994: Mackenzie King Travelling Scholarship (for study in the United Kingdom), Mackenzie King Scholarship Committee, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (declined) 1993-1994: British Council Postgraduate Scholarship (declined) 3 1993: University Silver Medal, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ottawa 1990-1993: Dean's Honour List, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ottawa 1988: Medal of the Governor General of Canada PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTION AND STANDING Publications Books and Monographs (forthcoming, under contract) The Work of Global Justice: Human Rights as Practices. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, approx. 270 pages (expected publication date: 2007). (forthcoming, under contract) Intersections and Interventions: Canadian Essays in Cultural Materialism. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, approx. 230 pages (expected publication date: 2007). (2004) The Ethnological Imagination: A Cross-Cultural Critique of Modernity. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 249 pages. (1998) Co-editor, Imagined Places: The Politics of Making Space. Melbourne: School of Sociology, Politics and Anthropology, La Trobe University (with C. Houston and A. Watson). Chapters in Books (forthcoming, accepted) "The Healing of Wounds: Forgiveness as a Cultural Practice." In Culture in the World, Vol. 2, eds. J. C. Alexander and I. Reed. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, approx. 30 pages (expected publication date: 2006). (forthcoming, accepted) "An Animated Palimpsest: The City and the Cinematic Work of Memory." In Urban Experiences and Cultural Identities, ed. I. Szeman. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, approx. 30 pages (expected publication date: 2006). (2006) "The Uses and Abuses of Humanitarian Intervention in the Wake of Empire." In Empire's Law: The American Imperial Project and the 'War to Remake the World,' ed. A. Bartholomew. London: Pluto Press, pp. 297-312. (2004) "Jak propojit technovedu, etiku a demokracii." [Linking Technoscience, Ethics, and Democracy] In Globalni spravedlnost a demokracie [Global Justice and Democracy], ed. M. Hrubec. Prague: Filosofia, pp. 313-350. (2003) "Finding Godot?: Bringing Popular Culture Into Canadian Political Economy." In Changing Canada: Political Economy as Transformation, eds. W. Clement and L. F. Vosko. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, pp. 467-492. 4 (1999) "La rencontre de l’altérité: vers une hybridité politique." ["The Encounter with Alterity: Towards a Political Hybridity"] In Pluralisme et délibération: Enjeux de la philosophie politique contemporaine, eds. K. Mellos and P. Savidan. Ottawa: Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa Press, pp. 173-193. (1998) “Myth 11: We Benefit from Their Hunger.” (principal authors: F. Moore Lappé et al.). In F. Moore Lappé et al. World Hunger: Twelve Myths, 2nd ed. New York: Grove Press, pp. 147-163. Articles (Refereed) (2004) "A Cosmopolitanism from Below: Alternative Globalization and the Creation of a Solidarity without Bounds." European Journal of Sociology/Archives européennes de sociologie 45, 2: 233-255. (2004) "The Global Culture of Prevention and the Work of Foresight." Constellations 11, 4: 453-475. (2004) "Alexander and the Cultural Refounding of American Sociology." Thesis Eleven 79: 53-64. (2004) "Cinema, or, An Art of Urban Memory in an Age of Forgetting." Public 29: 24-49. (2004) “The Ties to Bind: Techno-Science, Ethics and Democracy.” Philosophy & Social Criticism 30, 2: 159-186. Czech version in Filosofický Časopis [Philosophical Journal] 51, 6 (2003): 969-991. (2003) "Primitiveness and the Flight from Modernity: Sociology and the Avant-Garde in Interwar France." Economy and Society 32, 1: 7-28. (2003) “Prolegomena to an Intercultural Critical Theory.” Current Perspectives in Social Theory 22: 325- 348. (2002) “Which Barbarians at the Gate? From the Culture Wars to Market Orthodoxy in the North American Academy.” Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 39, 3: 323-347. (2002) “A Requiem for the Primitive.” History of the Human Sciences 15, 3: 1-24. (2000) "The Ethnological Counter-Current in Sociology." International Sociology 15, 1: 11-31. (2000) "At the Crossroads of the Radical: The Challenges of Castoriadis’s Thought." Theory, Culture & Society 17, 4: 145-155. (1999) "The Exotic Effect: Foucault and the Question of Cultural Alterity." European Journal of Social Theory 2, 2: 147-165. (1998) "The Adventures of the Structure." Thesis Eleven 55: 83-96. 5 Papers in Published Conference Proceedings (1998) "Introduction to Section 3: Spaces of Power, the Power of Space." In Imagined Places: The Politics of Making Space, eds. C. Houston, F. Kurasawa and A. Watson. Melbourne: School of Sociology, Politics and Anthropology, La Trobe University, pp. 169-174. (1998) "The Death of Myth and the Reechantment of the City: Surrealism and Modernity in Interwar Paris." In Imagined Places: The Politics of Making Space, eds. C. Houston, F. Kurasawa and A. Watson. Melbourne: School of Sociology, Politics and Anthropology, La Trobe University, pp. 199-205. (1997) "Globalizations and the Urban: Worlds in Flow, Worlds of Flows." In Ambivalence and Hope: Social Theory and Policy Making in a Globalizing, Postmodern Australia, eds. M. Booth and T. Hogan. Perth: Institute for Science and Technology Policy, Murdoch University, pp. 72-80. Encyclopedia Entries (2005) “Henri Lefebvre.” In Encyclopedia of Social Theory, ed. G. Ritzer. London and Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, pp. 438-440. Reviews (1999) "Review of M. Augé's A Sense for the Other: The Timeliness and Relevance of Anthropology." Journal of Intercultural Studies 20, 1: 108-110. (1998) "Review of P. Rabinow's Essays on the Anthropology of Reason." Thesis Eleven 54: 133-137. (1997) "Review of J.-K. Gibson-Graham’s The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy and T. Ebert’s Ludic Feminism and After: