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1. Michel Foucault

   Author of Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: The Will to Knowledge (An Introduction), Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977

2. Edward W. Said

   Author of Orientalism, Culture and Imperialism

3. E. J. Hobsbawm

   Author of The Invention of Tradition, Nations and Nationalism Since 1780

4. Frantz Fanon

   Author of The Wretched of the Earth, Black Skin, White Masks

5. Clifford Geertz

   Author of The Interpretation of Cultures, Negara: The Theatre State In Nineteenth-Century Bali, Agricultural Involution: The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia

6. James C. Scott

   Author of Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts, Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance

7. Michel de Certeau

   Author of The Practice of Everyday Life

8. Ernest Gellner

   Author of Nations and Nationalism (New Perspectives on the Past), Anthropology and Politics: Revolutions in the Sacred Grove

9. Judith Butler

   Author of Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

10. Jacques Derrida

    Author of Of Grammatology

11. David Harvey

    Author of The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change, The Urban Experience

12. Antonio Gramsci

    Author of Selections from the Prison Notebooks

13. Homi K. Bhabha

    Author of The Location of Culture

14. Jürgen Habermas

    Author of The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society (Studies in Contempo

15. Walter Benjamin

    Author of Illuminations

16. Karl Marx

    Author of The Marx-Engels Reader, Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy

17. Fredric Jameson

    Author of Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

18. Michael Hardt

    Author of Empire

19. E.P. Thompson

    Author of Making of the English Working Class

20. Arjun Appadurai

    Author of Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization, The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective (Cambridge Studies in Social & Cultural Anthropology)