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Anne McNevin

Non-Resident Fellow

Anne McNevin is a non-resident research fellow at the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility. She is currently based in Sydney.

Anne’s research spans three broad areas: the transformation of citizenship and sovereignty, the regulation of borders and migration, and spatial and temporal dimensions of world politics. Her forthcoming book, Worldmaking and Border Politics, aims to bring a world that is not defined by bordered states into the realm of serious political consideration. Some of this work is prefigured in this article and this brief essay. Anne is co-editor of a forthcoming Handbook of Ideology and Temporality and a forthcoming special issue outlining a new agenda for the temporal turn in Migration Studies. Earlier work has focused on trans-border mobilities as a form of political claims-making in Australia, South-East Asia, Europe and the Americas, as well as governmental regimes shaping the experience of refugees and migrants in and around Indonesia. 

From 2015-2025, Anne was Associate Professor of Politics at The New School for Social Research and chair of the politics department from 2019-2021. She was a Member of the School of Social Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton from 2018-19.  Before coming to The New School she was Lecturer in Politics at Monash University. From 2013-2020, Anne held several editorial positions at the journal Citizenship Studies, including co-editor in chief from 2018. Anne received her PhD in International Relations from the Australian National University. 

Select Publications:

Books:

  • Anne McNevin, Worldmaking and Border Politics, Stanford UP, forthcoming,
  • Hamza Bin Jehnagier, Adrian Little and Anne McNevin (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Ideology and Temporality, Routledge, forthcoming.
  • Anne McNevin. Contesting Citizenship: Irregular Migrants and New Frontiers of the Political. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011. 
  • Manfred B. Steger and Anne McNevin (eds.) Global Ideologies and Urban Landscapes, London and New York: Routledge, 2011.

Articles and Chapters:

  • Alexandra Délano Alonso and Anne McNevin, “Mutuality as Emergent Grounded Research” in Brooke Ackerly et al. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Grounded and Engaged Normative Theory, Oxford UP, forthcoming.
  • Loren Lanudau, Noora Lori and Anne McNevin, “Mobile Temporalities and Political Possibilities: Expanding the Temporal Turn in Migration Studies,” Migration Politics, forthcoming.
  • Anne McNevin (2022). “Mobility and its Discontents: Seeing Beyond International Space and Progressive Time.” Environment & Planning C: Politics and Space, 40(5): pp.994-1011.
  • Anne McNevin  (2022).“The City and the Clock in Planetary Times: Revisiting Isin’s Being Political Twenty Years On,” Citizenship Studies. 26(4/5): 565-576.
  • Anne McNevin (2022). “Against Crisis: Violence and Continuity in Manus Island Prison,” in Didier Fassin and Axel Honneth (eds.) Crisis Under Critique: How People Assess, Transform, and Respond to Critical Situations. New York: Columbia University Press, pp.211-232.
  • Anne McNevin (2020) “Time and the Figure of the Citizen” International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, 33(4): 545-559.
  • Anne McNevin and Antje Missbach (2018). “Hospitality as a Horizon of Aspiration (or, What the International Refugee Regime Can Learn from Acehnese Fishermen).” Journal of Refugee Studies, 31(3): 292-313.
  • Anne McNevin and Antje Missbach (2018). “Luxury Limbo: Temporal Techniques of Border Control and the Humanitarianization of Waiting.” International Journal of Border and Migration Studies, 4(1/2): 12-34. 
  • Anne McNevin. “Learning to Live with Irregular Migration: Towards a more ambitious debate on the politics of “the problem”.”  Citizenship Studies, 21(2), 2017: 255-274.
  • Anne McNevin, Antje Missbach and Deddy Mulyana. “The Rationalities of Migration Management: Control and Subversion in an Indonesia-based Counter-Smuggling Campaign.” International Political Sociology, 10(3), 2016: 223-240.
  • Anne McNevin. “Beyond Territoriality: rethinking human mobility, border security and geopolitical space from the Indonesian island of Bintan. Security Dialogue. 45(3) 2014, 295 – 310.
  • Anne McNevin. “Ambivalence and Citizenship: Theorising the Political Claims of Irregular Migrants” Millennium, 41(2) 2013, pp.182-200.