Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Falguni Sheth is a Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University. Her publications include "Toward a Political Philosophy of Race" (SUNY Press, 2009) and "Unruly Women: Race, Neoliberalism, and the Hijab" (Oxford University Press, 2021). Her interests include postcolonial theory, transnational feminist studies, critical philosophy of race and race studies, feminist political theory, anticolonial and empire studies, as well as political and legal philosophy.
Some of the works mentioned or relevant to the discussion:
- Toward a Political Philosophy of Race by Falguni A. Sheth https://sunypress.edu/Books/T/Toward-a-Political-Philosophy-of-Race2
- Unruly Women: Race, Neocolonialism, and the Hijab by Falguni A. Sheth global.oup.com/academic/product/unruly-women-9780197547144
- The Racial Contract by Charles W. Mills
- Fear of Black Consciousness by Lewis R. Gordon
- A Phenomenology for Women of Color: Merleau-Ponty and Identity-in-Difference by Emily S. Lee
- Justice and the Politics of Difference by Iris Marion Young
- The Habits of Racism: A Phenomenology of Racism and Racialized Embodiment by Helen Ngo
- Unruly Practices: Power, Discourse and Gender in Contemporary Social Theory by Nancy Fraser
- Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race in America by George Yancy
- Dislocating Cultures: Identities, Traditions, and Third World Feminism by Uma Narayan
- The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France 1978–1979 by Michel Foucault
- Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège de France 1977–1978 by Michel Foucault
- Sheth, F. A. (2025). Whither Difference, Whither Recognition? Iris Marion Young’s Justice and the Politics of Difference Revisited. Polity, 57(1), 160-168. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/733532?journalCode=pol
- Sheth, F. (2024). Dismissal, legibility and the normalising of colonial misrecognition. Race & Class, 65(4), 53-73. doi.org/10.1177/0306396823121916
Video Content:
00:00 - Preview
00:46 - Introduction
02:15 - Overview of Prof. Sheth's work
09:32 - What is a critical philosophy
14:30 - The Unruly
26:41 - Dismissal, legibility, and colonial misrecognition
32:54 - Iris Marion Young, politics of difference, respectability
39:36 - Critical philosophy and living a life
42:19 - Current projects
—
Access more videos: patreon.com/dgozli
Join my reading group: dgozli.com/reading-group-schedule
#criticaltheory #philosophy #politics
Falguni Sheth is a Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University. Her publications include "Toward a Political Philosophy of Race" (SUNY Press, 2009) and "Unruly Women: Race, Neoliberalism, and the Hijab" (Oxford University Press, 2021). Her interests include postcolonial theory, transnational feminist studies, critical philosophy of race and race studies, feminist political theory, anticolonial and empire studies, as well as political and legal philosophy.
Some of the works mentioned or relevant to the discussion:
- Toward a Political Philosophy of Race by Falguni A. Sheth https://sunypress.edu/Books/T/Toward-a-Political-Philosophy-of-Race2
- Unruly Women: Race, Neocolonialism, and the Hijab by Falguni A. Sheth global.oup.com/academic/product/unruly-women-9780197547144
- The Racial Contract by Charles W. Mills
- Fear of Black Consciousness by Lewis R. Gordon
- A Phenomenology for Women of Color: Merleau-Ponty and Identity-in-Difference by Emily S. Lee
- Justice and the Politics of Difference by Iris Marion Young
- The Habits of Racism: A Phenomenology of Racism and Racialized Embodiment by Helen Ngo
- Unruly Practices: Power, Discourse and Gender in Contemporary Social Theory by Nancy Fraser
- Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race in America by George Yancy
- Dislocating Cultures: Identities, Traditions, and Third World Feminism by Uma Narayan
- The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France 1978–1979 by Michel Foucault
- Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège de France 1977–1978 by Michel Foucault
- Sheth, F. A. (2025). Whither Difference, Whither Recognition? Iris Marion Young’s Justice and the Politics of Difference Revisited. Polity, 57(1), 160-168. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/733532?journalCode=pol
- Sheth, F. (2024). Dismissal, legibility and the normalising of colonial misrecognition. Race & Class, 65(4), 53-73. doi.org/10.1177/0306396823121916
Video Content:
00:00 - Preview
00:46 - Introduction
02:15 - Overview of Prof. Sheth's work
09:32 - What is a critical philosophy
14:30 - The Unruly
26:41 - Dismissal, legibility, and colonial misrecognition
32:54 - Iris Marion Young, politics of difference, respectability
39:36 - Critical philosophy and living a life
42:19 - Current projects
—
Access more videos: patreon.com/dgozli
Join my reading group: dgozli.com/reading-group-schedule
#criticaltheory #philosophy #politics
