ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We are grateful to Hilary Ballon for several texts that originated as talks in a series she organized at 19 Washington Square, given by Craig Calhoun, David A. Hollinger, Walter Benn Michaels, and Jeremy Waldron. And we are indebted to Robert Young for the contributions by Homi Bhabha, Achille Mbembe, and Emma Dabiri. Errol Elshtain graciously granted permission for us to include Jean Bethke Elshtain’s essay. Leela Gandhi’s essay grew out of a collaboration with Practice International, a group of artists and curators.

Many thanks to Eric Zinner at NYU Press for championing this volume and his formidable team, in particular Alicia Nadkarni. We would also like to thank Carmen Germaine and Katherine Delia James for their editorial work on this volume. We would like to acknowledge the support of the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute, in particular Reindert Falkenburg, Philip Kennedy, and Gila Bessarat-Waels. Special thanks to Amanda Anderson, Kerry Barrett, Martin Klimke, Nils Lewis, Isabella Peralta, and Helen Small.

This publication is supported by a grant from the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute, a major hub of intellectual and creative activity, and advanced research. The institute hosts academic conferences, workshops, cultural events, and other public programs, and is a center of scholarly life in Abu Dhabi, bringing together faculty and researchers from institutions of higher education throughout the region and the world.