Dr Andrea Mura
Staff details
Andrea Mura is member of the Centre for Postcolonial Studies and the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought at Goldsmiths.
Andrea has research and teaching interests in Comparative Political Thought, International Politics, and Postcolonial Theory.
Research interests
His work focuses on three main research areas:
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Political theology, economic theology and decoloniality, with particular reference to the categories of exception, debt and necessity between Europe and the Middle East and to the modern concept of ‘economy of salvation’.
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Comparative/International political thought: 1) investigating how theories, experiences, and stories of postcolonial societies and Indigenous peoples contribute to and reorient debates on territorial sovereignty, citizenship, and political identity; 2) 'non-state' paradigms or models of international law and politics (e.g., notions of dawlah, caliphate, Islamic state, hierocracy/theocracy, Chinese models of civilization-state, etc.)
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Psycho-Politics: Politics and economy of desire (e.g., affective politics of space).
Areas of interest:
International Political Theory, Modern critical studies, Postcolonial and decolonial thought, critical theory, Islamic political thought, International Politics of the Middle East.
Publications and research outputs
Book
Mura, Andrea. 2015. The Symbolic Scenarios of Islamism: A Study in Islamic Political Thought. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 9781472443892
Edited Journal
Mura, Andrea and Gentili, Dario, eds. 2014. Introducing Teatro Valle – Searching for a European Commons, openDemocracy, .
Book Section
Mura, Andrea. 2023. Cent’anni dopo 'Teologia Politica': Pensiero tecnico-economico e Impresa di Sé. In: Arthur Bradley and Elettra Stimilli, eds. Teologia Politica Oggi? Macerata: Quodlibet. ISBN 9788822920782
Mura, Andrea. 2020. Religion and Islamic Radicalization. In: Yannis Stavrakakis, ed. The Routledge Handbook of Psychoanalytic Political Theory. London: Routledge, pp. 316-329. ISBN 9781138696310
Mura, Andrea. 2019. Teologia Politica e Islamismo: Tra universalismo e caduta apocalittica nel pensiero di Sayyid Qutb. In: Elettra Stimilli, ed. Teologie e politica: Genealogie e attualità. Macerata, Italy: Quodlibet. ISBN 9788822902429
Mura, Andrea. 2017. Orient, Orientation, and the Western Referent: From Comparative to World Thought. In: Lucian Stone and Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh, eds. Manifestos for World Thought. London: Rowman & Littlefield International, pp. 3-21. ISBN 9781783489510
Mura, Andrea and Teti, Andrea. 2016. Sunni Islam and Politics. In: Jeff Haynes, ed. Routledge Handbook of Religion and Politics. London: Routledge, pp. 83-101. ISBN 9781138826991
Gentili, Dario and Mura, Andrea. 2015. Ein Theater-Commons kommt zur Welt. Die Stiftung Teatro Valle Bene Comune. In: Silke Helfrich and David Bollier, eds. Die Welt der Commons: Muster gemeinsamen Handelns. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, pp. 132-135. ISBN 9783839432457
Mura, Andrea. 2015. Disorienting Austerity: The Indebted Citizen as the New Soul of Europe. In: Engin Isin, ed. Citizenship After Orientalism: Transforming Political Theory. Houndmills, Basingstoke Hampshire; New York, NY: Palgrave. ISBN 978-1-137-47950-1
Mura, Andrea and Gentili, Dario. 2015. The Birth of a Theater Commons. In: David Bollier and Silke Helfrich, eds. Patterns of Commoning. Amherst, Massachusetts: The Commons Strategies Group. ISBN 978-1937146832
Article
Mura, Andrea. 2023. The Oracles of Neoliberal Governance: A Critical Response to Elettra Stimilli’s Debt and Guilt. Political Theology, 24(4), pp. 410-417. ISSN 1462-317X
Mura, Andrea. 2022. Political and economic theology after Carl Schmitt: The confessional logic of deferment. Journal for Cultural Research, 26(3-4), pp. 266-278. ISSN 1479-7585
Mura, Andrea. 2018. Islamische Wiedergeburt und die Politik der Globalisierung aus Lacan’scher Perspektive. Lacaniana,
Mura, Andrea. 2016. National Finitude and the Paranoid Style of the One. Contemporary Political Theory, 15(1), pp. 58-79. ISSN 1470-8914
Mura, Andrea. 2015. Debito e Comune: Per un’etica del non-tutto [Debt and the Commons: For an Ethos of not-all]. Aut Aut, 365, pp. 84-98.
Mura, Andrea. 2015. Il neoliberismo e il paradigma dell’indebitamento: Una lettura psicoanalitica [Neoliberalism and the paradigm of indebtedness: A Psychoanalytic Reading]. LETTERa: Quaderni di clinica e cultura psicoanalitica, 5, pp. 193-210.
Mura, Andrea. 2015. Lacan and Debt: The Discourse of the Capitalist in Times of Austerity. Philosophy Today, 59(2), pp. 155-174. ISSN 0031-8256
Mura, Andrea and Gentili, Dario. 2014. The Austerity of the Commons: A Struggle for the Essential. openDemocracy,
Mura, Andrea. 2014. The Inclusive Dynamics of Islamic Universalism: From the Vantage Point of Sayyid Qutb’s Critical Philosophy. Comparative Philosophy, 5(1), pp. 30-55. ISSN 2151-6014
Mura, Andrea. 2014. Islamism Revisited: A Lacanian Discourse Critique. European Journal of Psychoanalysis, 1(1), pp. 107-126. ISSN 2284-1059
Mura, Andrea and Teti, Andrea. 2013. Convergent (Il)liberalism in the Mediterranean? Notes on Political Trends in Egypt and Italy. European Urban and Regional Studies, 20(1), pp. 120-127. ISSN 0969-7764
Mura, Andrea. 2012. The Symbolic Function of Transmodernity. Language and Psychoanalysis, Autumn(1), pp. 67-86. ISSN 2049-324X
Mura, Andrea. 2012. A Genealogical Inquiry into Early Islamism: The Discourse of Hasan al-Banna. Journal of Political Ideologies, 17(1), pp. 61-85. ISSN 1356-9317
Broadcast
Mura, Andrea. 2014. Rosi Braidotti on crisis, capital and austerity - Interview by Andrea Mura.
Further profile content
Goldsmiths Research Centres/Groups
Media engagements
2014:
Rosi Braidotti on crisis, capital and austerity - Interview by Andrea Mura
From openDemocracy, 26 February 2014.