Deepa Kumar is a critical media studies scholar whose work is driven by an active engagement with the complex issues that characterize our era of globalization and war. Her first book, "Outside the Box: Corporate Media, Globalization and the UPS Strike" (University of Illinois Press, 2007), is about the power of collective struggle in effectively challenging the priorities of neoliberalism. She began her research into the racial politics of empire shortly after the tumultuous events of 9/11. Her second book, "Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire" (Haymarket Books, 2012), is about the racialized Muslim enemy and how it has sustained empire from the early modern era to the present with a particular focus on the War on Terror. The first edition has been translated into Arabic, Turkish, Kurdish, Malayalam and Indonesian. A second and completely revised edition was published to mark twenty years of the War on Terror (Verso, 2021). Her third book project, under contract with the University of California Press, is tentatively titled "Terrorcraft: Empire, Security and Race." It explores the relationship between security capitalism, regimes of racial control, and the malleable and adaptable ways in which "terrorism" discourse and policy are employed.

Website: Deepakumar.com