Gopal Balakrishnan was a professor in the History of Consciousness Department at the

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, until he was fired due to allegations of sexual assault. Balakrishnan studied European intellectual history and

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during the 1990s with

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, Rogers Brubaker, and

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. He worked on

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, and

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. Prior to his appointment at UC-Santa Cruz, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the

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. In 2017, a number of people published allegations that Balakrishnan had committed sexual assault on multiple occasions. UC Santa Cruz launched an investigation in 2017 that was extended in May 2018. In October 2018, Balakrishnan remained on paid administrative leave. He subsequently resigned as a member of the editorial board of the ''

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''. In September 2019, he was fired from his position at UCSC, becoming the first tenured faculty member to be fired at UCSC.

Selected publications

Books

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Articles

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Empire An empire is a "political unit" made up of several territories and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant center and subordinate peripheries". The center of the empire (sometimes referred to as the metropole) ex ...

'' by

Michael Hardt Michael Hardt (born 1960) is an American political philosopher and literary theorist. Hardt is best known for his book ''Empire'', which was co-written with Antonio Negri. Hardt and Negri suggest that several forces which they see as dominat ...

and

Antonio Negri Antonio "Toni" Negri (born 1 August 1933) is an Italian Spinozistic- Marxist sociologist and political philosopher, best known for his co-authorship of ''Empire'' and secondarily for his work on Spinoza. Born in Padua, he became a political ...

. * ::Review of the book ''

The Shield of Achilles ''The Shield of Achilles'' is a poem by W. H. Auden first published in 1952, and the title work of a collection of poems by Auden, published in 1955. It is Auden's response to the detailed description, or ''ekphrasis'', of the shield bor ...

'' by

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. * * ::Review of the book ''Valences of the Dialectic'' by

Frederic Jameson Fredric Jameson (born April 14, 1934) is an American literary critic, philosopher and Marxist political theorist. He is best known for his analysis of contemporary cultural trends, particularly his analysis of postmodernity and capitalism. James ...

References

External links

Review of ''The Enemy: An Intellectual Portrait of Carl Schmitt''
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