Confabulating with Prof. Faisal Devji

He is an intellectual historian whose work focusses both on the theory on non-violence in the 20th century and the globalisation of violence in the 21st. He is also interested in anti-statist and anti-nationalist ideas and movements and in particular their engagements with the concept of sovereignty.

Research Interests

He is interested in the intellectual history and political thought of modern South Asia as well as in the emergence of Islam as a global category. In my research He has focussed on the cultural and philosophical meanings of violence as much as the emergence of non-violence as a political project. He is also very interested in the different ways in which the idea of humanity achieves political realty, particularly as the simultaneous subject and object of globalisation. His recent work deals with efforts to think beyond the nation-state and the inheritance of anarchism in the post-colonial world.