Iain Michael Chambers (born 1949) is a sociologist, historian and cultural studies scholar. Born in Britain, he has lived in Naples since 1976. With Lidia Curti he helped to develop cultural and postcolonial studies in Italy from the University of Naples, Orientale. Subsequently, he developed a cultural and postcolonial studies approach to analysing the historical and cultural formation of the modern Mediterranean. More recently, he has extended these concerns to questions involving contemporary art. In 2022, as a member of the collective «Jimmie Durham & A Stick in the Forest by the Side of the Road», he participated in documenta 15. He has been translated into Italian, Spanish, Turkish and German. [1] He is a regular contributor to the Italian daily il Manifesto. [2]
