NEWS 1 Dec 2011

David Chandler	Faisal Devji	Benjamin Noys

NEW MEMBERS OF THE JCGS EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD

The JCGS is very proud to announce the addition of three world class scholars to our editorial advisory board. David Chandler is Professor of International Relations at the University of Westminster. Faisal Devji is University Reader in Modern South Asian History at St. Antony's College, University of Oxford. And Benjamin Noys is Reader in English at the University of Chichester.

David Chandler is founding editor of the Journal of Intervention and State Building. His books include Empire in Denial and Hollow Hegemony. Prof. Chandler contributed the article, 'Neither International nor Global: Rethinking the Problematic Subject of Security', to Issue 3 of the JCGS.

Faisal Devji is the author of two books, Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality, Modernity, and The Terrorist in Search of Humanity: Militant Islam and Global Politics. Faisal contributed to the roundtable discussion on 'Transnational Militancy in the 21st century' in Issue 2 alongside Saul Newman and Kevin McDonald. He also contributed to a live version of the same roundtable in an event held at Goldsmiths College to launch the issue.

Faisal writes, "The fact that JCGS is not restricted to a caste of professional academics, but serves as an interface between students, teachers and other intellectuals lends the journal an open aspect while giving it a very contemporary edge."

Benjamin Noys is author of numerous books, the most recent of which are The Persistance of the Negative and, as an editor, Communization and its Discontents. Benjamin contributed the article ''Grey in Grey': Crisis, Critique, Change' to Issue 4 of the journal.

Benjamin said, "The Journal of Critical Globalization Studies is a vital intervention, reintroducing the necessity for critique and political resistance against the usual academic conformities. Taking seriously the global dimensions of the current crisis of capitalism and the need for new forms of critical thought, it promises to be a crucial site for rethinking and reinventing politics."