Ann Laura Stoler is Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies at The New School for Social Research, as well as the Founding Director of the Institute for Critical Social Inquiry. She has worked for over thirty years on the politics of knowledge, colonial governance, racial epistemologies, the sexual politics of empire, and ethnography of the archives. The author of several books and edited volumes, her commitment to joining conceptual and historical research has lead to collaborative work with historians, literary scholars, and philosophers, and most recently in the creation of the journal Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon, of which she is one of the founding editors.

• UNQUIET IN THE POLIS


• PART I: ON THE METRICS OF WORTH


• 1 INTERIOR FRONTIERS


• 2. WEAPONIZING THE SENSES


• 3. (DIS)TASTE of RACE


• 4. HOW NOT TO KNOW


• PART II: OF DISSENSUS IN THE MAKING


• 5. POETIC RAGE: THE ANTICOLONIAL AVANT-GARDES


• 6. ARCHIVING PRAXIS: FOR PALESTINIANS AND BEYOND


• PART III: SHATTERZONES OF IMPERIAL DEMOCRACY


• 7. "ALL THINGS BEING EQUAL": MOBILE EXTRACTION IN A CARCERAL WORLD


• 8. COLONIAL DIFFRACTIONS IN (IL)LIBERAL TIMES

In this collection of essays, Ann Laura Stoler takes aim at the racial formations of imperial democracy and its interior frontiers, helping us dissect the racist underpinnings of current forms of global violence. Building on Etienne Balibar's political conceptualization of the "interior frontier," Stoler argues that interior frontiers are sites of struggle between different populations, spaces, and persons--divisions that can be silently and violently enforced. Insightful and provocative, Interior Frontiers looks at the legacy of colonialism and the contemporary conditions of imperial democracy.