Global Currents Archives | Contending Modernities

Catholic Conceptions of Personhood and Gene Editing

Aline Kalbian
August 9, 2019August 9, 2019

Understanding how the Catholic faith community navigates a path between fear of technological overreach and the pursuit of medical advances allows us to see the complexity of the relationship between human identity and genetic intervention.

Unmasking Neoliberalism’s Invisible Grip: Homo Economicus and the Person in Bioethics

M. Therese Lysaught
July 18, 2019July 30, 2019

The CRISPR conversation makes clear that bioethics, as it has emerged since the 1980s, is a deeply neoliberal project.

Turkey, White Supremacy, and the Clash of Civilizations

Perin Gurel
July 10, 2019August 7, 2019

At the intersection of civilizational discourses and obsession with reproductive purity, one finds a toxic passion for an imagined Medieval past and an obsession with the Ottoman Empire/Turkey that echoes the “Clash of Civilizations” rhetoric.

De/Provincializing Europe

Korey Garibaldi
June 25, 2019August 7, 2019

Transmitting Europe’s complex, deeply interconnected multiracial heritage has never been more pressing.

Islamophobia Beyond Christchurch: Muslims as Tamed Others

Lailatul Fitriyah
June 18, 2019August 7, 2019

Islamophobia is intertwined with state-sponsored violence and securitization, narratives of nationalism, and the flows of the global market and commodification.

Beyond the Performance of Interfaith Solidarity

Atalia Omer
June 11, 2019August 7, 2019

Profound expressions of interfaith solidarity must disrupt the deep legacy of “faith” as an instrument of empire.

Something Else A’Comin’ . . .

J. Kameron Carter
May 31, 2019June 3, 2019

What might the future-now mean, where both “the now” and “the future” are unmoored from liberal humanist progressive narratives or temporalities (of death), unhooked from time schemes that presume the settler, or the sovereign, individuated subject?

The Unsettled Morality of Kidney Sales

Elham Mireshghi
May 23, 2019May 29, 2019

Despite the religious sanctions afforded by Islamic jurists, selling kidneys in Iran remains socially stigmatized and morally obscure.

From “Shooting and Crying” to “Shooting and Singing”: Notes on the 2019 Eurovision in Israel.

Gil Hochberg
May 17, 2019May 17, 2019

The days of shooting and crying are over. Shooting continues, but crying has stopped. It has been replaced with laughter: hysterical, cynical, crude, perhaps even desperate laughter.

Reading Frankenstein in a Time of Germline Editing

Daniel Daly
May 6, 2019May 16, 2019

Personal and collective experience shows us that children rightly desire to be received and accepted by their parents as gifts, regardless of their abilities or genetic makeup.