Iain Michael Chambers Explained

Iain Michael Chambers (born 1949) is a sociologist, historian and cultural studies scholar. Born in Britain he has lived in Naples since 1976. There, he has developed a cultural and postcolonial studies approach to analysing the historical and cultural formation of the modern Mediterranean. He has been translated into Italian, Spanish, Turkish and German.^[1] He is a regular contributor to the Italian daily il Manifesto.^[2]

Selected publications

• The Mediterranean Question (with Marta Cariello), Punctum Books, 2025.
• La questione mediterranea (with Marta Cariello), Mondadori, 2019.
• Postcolonial Interruptions, Unauthorised Modernities, Rowman & Littlefield, 2017.
• Mediterraneo blues. Musiche, malinconia postcoloniale, pensieri marittimi, Bollati Boringhieri, 2012, Tamu 2020.
• Mediterranean Crossings. The politics of an interrupted modernity, Duke University Press, 2008.
• Esercizi di potere: Gramsci, Said e il postcoloniale, Meltemi Editore, 2006.
• Culture after Humanism, Routledge 2001.
• The Postcolonial Question. Common Skies, Divided Horizons (ed. with Lidia Curti), Routledge, 1995.
• Migrancy, culture, identity, Routledge, 1993.
• Border Dialogues. Journeys in Postmodernity, Routledge 1990.
• Popular Culture. The Metropolitan Experience, Routledge, 1986.
• Urban Rhythms. Pop music and popular culture, Macmillan 1985.

Notes and References

1. Web site: 23 March 2016. Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CC-BY-SA via OTRS). Iain Chambers. web.
2. Web site: Ricerca . 2024-08-02 . ilmanifesto.it.