PROF Hagar Kotef's Outputs (2)

Little Chinese Feet Encased in Iron Shoes: Freedom, Movement, Gender, and Empire in Western Political Thought (2015)
Journal Article
Kotef, H. (2015). Little Chinese Feet Encased in Iron Shoes: Freedom, Movement, Gender, and Empire in Western Political Thought. Political Theory, 43(3), 334-355. https://doi.org/10.1177/0090591715579515

This essay traces the evocations of the Chinese practice of foot-binding in Western political thought. I examine the changing deployments of the image: as a contrast to European freedom or as a mirror reflecting its own limitations. The bound feet no... Read More about Little Chinese Feet Encased in Iron Shoes: Freedom, Movement, Gender, and Empire in Western Political Thought.

Movement and the Ordering of Freedom: On Liberal Governances of Mobility (2015)
Book
Kotef, H. (2015). Movement and the Ordering of Freedom: On Liberal Governances of Mobility. Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822375753

We live within political systems that increasingly seek to control movement, organized around both the desire and ability to determine who is permitted to enter what sorts of spaces, from gated communities to nation-states. In Movement and the Orderi... Read More about Movement and the Ordering of Freedom: On Liberal Governances of Mobility.