NANCY FRASER
Nancy Fraser
Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science
Profile:
Concentrations: Social and political theory; feminist theory; contemporary French and German thought. checkSeparator("facultyPersonalProfile");
Recent Publications:
Scales of Justice: Reimagining Political Space in a Globalizing World (2008). Also in Spanish and Chinese translations.
Adding Insult to Injury: Nancy Fraser Debates Her Critics (2008), edited by Kevin Olson. Also in Chinese translation.
Redistribution or Recognition? A Political-Philosophical Exchange (2003), co-authored with Axel Honneth. Also published in German and Czech translations.
The Radical Imagination: Between Redistribution and Recognition (2003), in Swedish translation.
Justice Interruptus: Critical Reflections on the "Postsocialist" Condition (1997). Also published in German, Spanish, and Japanese translations.
Feminist Contentions: A Philosophical Exchange (1994), co-authored with Seyla Benhabib, Judith Butler, and Drucilla. Also published in German translation.
Unruly Practices: Power, Discourse and Gender in Contemporary Social Theory (1989). Also published in German translation.
Repenser la justice sociale: De la redistribution à la reconnaissance? (forthcoming in 2004), in French translation.
Tracer l'imaginaire féministe: Entre la redistribution et la reconnaissance (forthcoming in 2004), in French translation.
Pragmatism, Critique, Judgment: Essays for Richard J. Bernstein, co-edited with Seyla Benhabib (forthcoming in 2004).
Revaluing French Feminism: Critical Essays on Difference, Agency, and Culture, co-edited with Sandra Bartky (1992).
Read Nancy Fraser's introduction to a recent book: Mapping the Radical Imagination.
Nancy Fraser is also the editor of Constellations, an international journal of critical and democratic theory.
Click here, and visit the Constellations website, or click here and read an article from the Summer 2003 publication: "From Discipline to Flexibilization? Re-reading Foucault in the Shadow of Globalization".
Research Interests:
Book-in-progress: Abnormal Justice
An overview of the project of Abnormal Justice can be found in a recently published article: Nancy Fraser, "Abnormal Justice," Critical Inquiry, vol. 34, no.3 (2008): 393-422.
Recent Presentations/Exhibits:
Appointments:
Chaire Blaise Pascal, l'Ecole des hautes etudes en science sociales, Paris, 2008.
Spinoza Professor of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Spring 2004
Jantina Tammes Professor of Gender Studies, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, Spring 2003
Research Fellowship, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, 2004-2005
Vice-President and Member, Conseil scientifique, College international de philosophie, Paris, 2003-present.
Conference sessions on Nancy Fraser's recent work:
"Paradoxes of Recognition and Redistribution: Nancy Fraser meets her Critics," papers by Kevin Olson, Leonard Feldman, Estelle Ferrarese, and Christopher Zurn, response by Nancy Fraser, American Political Science Association meeting, Philadelphia, August 2003
"Session on Nancy Fraser and Axel Honneth, Recognition or Redistribution?," papers by Linda Alcoff, Kevin Olson, Joel Anderson, response by Nancy Fraser, Critical Theory Roundtable, Stony Book NY, October 2003
"Scholar's Session: Nancy Fraser," papers by Mitchell Aboulafia and Christopher Zurn, response by Nancy Fraser, SPEP, Boston, November 2003
Journal issues about Nancy Fraser's recent work:
European Journal of Political Theory, vol. 6, no.4 (2007). Contains essays by Linda Martin Alcoff, James Bohman, Nikolas Kompridis, Rainer Forst and a reply by Nancy Fraser.
Theory, Culture & Society, vol. 24, no. 4 (2007). Contains Nancy Fraser's essay "Transnationalizing the Public Sphere," and replies by 7 commentators. Includes an interview with Nancy Fraser, "The Politics of Framing," by Kate Nash and Vikki Bell.
Awards and Honors:
Awarded the Doctor Honoris Causa, by the National University of Cordoba (Argentina), 2006.
Delivered the Gilbert Ryle Lectures, at Trent University, Canada in November 2007.