Worlds at Home: On Cosmopolitan Futures

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank all the participants of the conference ‘Worlds at Home: On Cosmopolitan Futures’ that was held at the University of British Columbia in March 2017; our research assistants, Michel O’Brien and Megan Holec; Paula Muraca and the editorial team at the Journal of Intercultural Studies; and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for funding this project. We are especially grateful to Sneja Gunew for her generosity, especially to junior scholars. We dedicate this special issue to her.

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Notes on contributors

Sheila Giffen is a PhD Candidate in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. She is the recipient of a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship and her doctoral research considers evocations of the sacred in literary responses to the HIV/AIDS crisis in the US and South Africa.

Christopher Lee is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies Program at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of The Semblance of Identity: Aesthetic Mediation in Asian American Literature (Stanford University Press, 2012). He recently co-edited special issues of Canadian Literature (‘Asian Canadian Critique Beyond the Nation’) and Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas (‘Beyond Canada 150: Asian Canadian Visual Cultures’). He is currently Associate Editor of American Quarterly.

Renisa Mawani is Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Law and Society Program at the University of British Columbia. She works in the fields of critical theory and colonial legal history and has published widely on law, colonialism, and legal geography. She is the author of Colonial Proximities (2009) and Across Oceans of Law (2018). With Iza Hussin, she is co-editor of ‘The Travels of Law’ published in Law and History Review (2014); with Rita Dhamoon, Davina Bhandar, and Satwinder Bains, she is co-editor of Unmooring the Komagata Maru (2019); with Antoinette Burton, she is co-editor of Animalia: An Anti-Imperial Bestiary of Our Times (Duke University Press, 2020).

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Funding

This work was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.