Sandro Mezzadra

political philosopher, Bologna

Sandro Mezzadra is a political philosopher whose work in the last decade has centered on the relations between globalization, migration, and citizenship, as well as on postcolonial theory and criticism. He teaches political theory at the University of Bologna and is adjunct fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society of the University of Western Sydney. He is currently visiting research fellow at the Humboldt University, Berlin (BIM – Berliner Institut für empirische Migrations- und Integraqtionsforschung, October 1, 2015–July 31, 2016). His books include: In the Marxian Workshops. The subject and its Production (2014); The postcolonial condition: History and politics in the global present (2008); and The right to escape: Migration, citizenship, globalization (2006). With Brett Neilson he is the author of Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor (2013) and he has worked on several FP7 European research projects. Mezzadra lives and works in Bologna. [Last updated 2016]