Maheswaran

Global

In their book "The Rest and the West: Capital and Power in a Multipolar World", political theorists Brett Neilson and Sandro Mezzadra offer a sweeping analysis of contemporary capitalism's shifting political geographies. As war and militarisation proliferate — from Ukraine to Gaza, Lebanon, Iran, Israel, and Venezuela — their framework offers a rare and timely lens for understanding the entanglement of capital, geopolitics, and violence.

With and Beyond the West: Multipolarity, War Regimes and Global Struggles – An Interview with Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson

Sowmya Maheswaran is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for European Ethnology and the Berlin Institute for Empirical Migration Research at Humboldt University of Berlin. Working at the intersection of global and political anthropology, she researches and teaches primarily on violence and resistance. She is particularly interested in conflict dynamics in the context of (post-)war, dispossession, flight and exile, as well as in the diverse forms of dissent, political subjectivity and transnational organisation that emerge under these conditions.