Michael Curtin

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Michael Curtin is Mellichamp Professor of Film and Media Studies, UCSB, and Director of 21st Century Global Dynamics.

Urbanization of Empire: Plantation, Space, and Racial Terror

CONTRIBUTIONS

Factory workers on an assembly line

Thinking Through Labor

still from the Saudi film Wadjda (2012)

Scaling Imagination: The Political Implications of Popular Media

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Twenty-first Century Global Dynamics

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Race to the Bottom of the Global Knowledge Economy

Newspaper

Murdoch: Dow Now; What Next?

The Nail House

The Nail House: Global Media, Local Politics

RECENT ARTICLES

Urbanization of Empire: Plantation, Space, and Racial Terror

Gabriel Cruz , Rebeca Barros Passos, Igor Thiago Silva de Sousa

February 11, 2026

Black City: The ‘Urban’ as Refusal and Abolition

Jaime A. Alves

February 9, 2026

SERIES

(In)tolerance

... as Archive. Memory, Mediation, and Agency.

Biodata Capitalism: From Flush to Forecast

Black Cities

COVID-19 and Populism

Diversifying Global Education

Global Dynamics of Authoritarianism

Global Studies & Cultural Literacy

Global Studies in East Asia

Gramsci Today

Hong Kong and Liberty

ISIS Media

Mnemonic Solidarity

Pandemic: Border-Crossing Caveats

Populism and Democracy

Populist Backlash

Re-Globalization

Reforming Global Governance

Rethinking Queer Migration Studies

Rohingya Crisis

Tourism & Development in Africa

Undergraduate Scholars Series