Prof David Chandler
David Chandler is Professor of International Relations, University of Westminster, London, UK. He edits the journal Anthropocenes - Human, Inhuman, Posthuman and convenes the Materialisms Reading Group and the Black Anthropocene Working Group. He has around 30 books (authored and edited) ranging from work on governing imaginaries of the Anthropocene, digital sensing and mapping, to critiques of liberal and neoliberal paradigms of international intervention - humanitarianism, democracy and rights promotion, human security, peacebuilding, statebuilding and resilience. His website is at www.davidchandler.org and his email address is d.chandler@wmin.ac.uk. His recent monographs include: Race in the Anthropocene: Coloniality, Disavowal and the Black Horizon (Routledge, 2024); World as Abyss: The Caribbean and Critical Thought in the Anthropocene (Westminster, 2023); Anthropocene Islands: Entangled Worlds (Westminster, 2021); Becoming Indigenous: Governing Imaginaries in the Anthropocene (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019); Ontopolitics in the Anthropocene: An Introduction to Mapping, Sensing and Hacking (Routledge, 2018); Peacebuilding: The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1997-2017 (Palgrave, 2017); The Neoliberal Subject: Resilience, Adaptation and Vulnerability (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016) and Resilience: The Governance of Complexity (Routledge, 2014).
Current research interests: Critique after Relation; Futurity and Disavowal; Radical Hope; The Antipolitical Order; Anticipatory Governance; Working with the Negative; Political Ontology, International Relations in the Anthropocene, Law in the Anthropocene, Abyssal Geography...