Alina Sajed
@AlinaSajed
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Anticolonial thought and praxis; North Africa/Middle East; Third Worldism; coffee•Rumi•تصوف•books. Assoc. Prof. @McMasterU . Assoc. Editor @contextointl
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Happy to see my latest article out with International Studies Review. The article is open access - link to full article in comments below.
@IntlStudiesRev
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Excited to share my latest publication. This essay is part of a special issue on Anticolonial Feminist Imaginaries, which I guest-edited with the wonderful
@saramsalem
for
@KohlJournal
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Our special issue on “Empire and Radical International Thought” is out!
@DukePress
@ayca_cu
@EskandarSadeghi
@acalkivik
@isaac_kamola
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Our special issue is out! We are excited to see this out in the world! Please check out the wonderful cover and the brilliant contributions featured here.
@timothyseidel
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This special issue on Anticolonial Connectivity and the Politics of Solidarity with
@Postcolonials
started out as a panel at the ISA 2018 in San Francisco. Grateful to contributors and reviewers for their work on this. 🧵on articles below
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Happy to share my latest publication with Postcolonial Studies. I examine the political paradox of the establishment of the national liberation state, and the politics behind the intellectual debate on the ‘failure’ of the national liberation state.
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This is the sole audio archive of Frantz Fanon delivering the talk titled ‘Racisme et culture’ at the Sorbonne in 1956. *The talk is in French*
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My latest article is out with South Atlantic Quarterly and it is now also open access. This piece is part of a special issue I guest-edited with Begum Adalet on “Empire and Radical International Thought.” Link to the full article in the comments.
@DukePress
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We are indeed deeply honoured by this recognition of collective work for our special issue on Anticolonial Connectivity and the Politics of Solidarity
@timothyseidel
#ISA2024
ISA Theory Section 2024 Awards
🥁
We are please to annonce that the ISA Theory Section 2024 Award for Best Edited Volume/Special Issue goes to “Anticolonial Connectivity and the Politcs of Solidarity”, edited by Alina Sajed
@AlinaSajed
and Timothy Seidel
#ISA2024
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Honored to have guest-edited the forum on
@saramsalem
's Anticolonial Afterlives. Forum is now out with
@ReviewsPolitics
@RobbieShilliam
Below links to pieces by
@ZNabolsy
@RandolphPersaud
Adam Hanieh
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I wrote this teaching piece for
@E_IR
- it examines the historical links and shifts between the terms Third World and Global South.
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My review essay on the Arab Lefts, edited by Laure Guirguis, is out with
@form_legal
Many thanks to
@Umut_Ozsu
for the invitation to contribute. And grateful for comments and feedback to
@ZNabolsy
and to Rob Hunter and Jasmine Chorley at Legal Form.
'From what present are we historicizing the left?'
@AlinaSajed
reviews ARAB LEFTS: HISTORIES AND LEGACIES and considers 'the enchantment of the state', the role of women, and political Islam in decolonial struggles in the Middle East and North Africa.
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My latest piece with
@MidEastCritique
is out! It’s part of an upcoming special issue on politics of memory in the Middle East ed. by
@saramsalem
and
@RobertoRoccu
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Thanks for the invite
@mg_liam
@karo_wm
@BalsillieSIA
@isanet
! I’ll be focusing my thread on teaching IR in the Western/non-Western academy and on syllabus content (IR for a global world). (1/8)
#ThingsIWishIknewinIR
And our final panelist for the second session of
#ThingsIWishIKnewInIR
is Alina Sajed
@AlinaSajed
. Alina is an Associate Professor
@McMasterU
. Welcome Alina!
@isanet
@BalsillieSIA
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Many thanks to
@Tilley101
for reviewing our book ‘Race, Gender, and Culture in IR. Postcolonial Perspectives’ for
@E_IR
. This is a postcolonial undergraduate textbook which takes the colonial experience as the starting point of global politics
@RandolphPersaud
@Rout_PoliticsIR
@battleforeurope
@C_Lapavitsas
Another of our most popular reviews of 2019 was
@Tilley101
's look at Race, Gender and Culture in IR. The book combines critical theoretical work on race and culture and provides unique and insightful approaches to IR and beyond
@AlinaSajed
@Rout_PoliticsIR
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ISA-bound friends, if you are free and interested, do consider our humble offerings 😊 Looking forward to seeing new and old friends in San Francisco!
#ISA2024
@queerexile
@adavari21
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ISA-bound friends, if you’re free and available in Montreal, please check out our panel on Epistemologies of domination, and our roundtable on Naeem’s book Pedagogy as Encounter.
#ISA2023
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Check out our special issue “Escaping the Nation? Anticolonial imaginaries and postcolonial settlements” out now with Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies
@emiljanowicz
@JKGani
@timothyseidel
Link:
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My piece on Ryszard Kapuściński and the politics of Third World reportage is out with
@HistoryWO
Between 1951 & 1980, Kapuściński covered more than twenty-seven revolutions & coups in Africa, Latin America, Asia, & the Middle East.
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We teach students for whom colonialism/race are not abstract concepts but lived everyday realities – we should be able to reflect these in our syllabi and enrich our IR conversations in the classroom. Thank you! (8/8)
#ThingsIWishIknewinIR
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International Law and Decolonization👇
Umut Özsu, Carleton University
Co-sponsors McMaster PolSci &
@GDS_ISA
This Wednesday, October 28, 1-2.30pm (Toronto time)
Zoom registration link:
@McMasterSocSci
@form_legal
@cuLegalStudies
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As a postcolonial IR scholar, I center my teaching (and hence my syllabi) around the following question: can we understand the discipline of International Relations and our current global system without colonialism and race? (7/8)
#ThingsIWishIknewinIR
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@timothyseidel
and myself had a lovely chat with
@east_podcast
about our recently published special issue with Interventions and talked about anticolonial nationalism and its contemporary reverberations
@JKGani
@emiljanowicz
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The Arabic version also available:
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My own piece examines the political paradox of the establishment of the national liberation state, and the politics behind the intellectual debate on the ‘failure’ of the national liberation state.
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Teaching IR theory to a diverse classroom in North America, a common question from students in my 4th year seminar on non-Western IR was: why do we have to wait until the end of our degree to learn about non-Western perspectives? (6/8)
#ThingsIWishIknewinIR
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Timothy Seidel looks at both new security practices that defy territoriality and the resistance that such new practices engender along the 'Palestine-Mexico' border.
@timothyseidel
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Their common question was: how is ancient Greece relevant/applicable to us in HK/China? Imagine the reverse: teaching IR theory in the West by taking ancient Chinese history/concepts as universally valid theory and history applicable everywhere. (4/8)
#ThingsIWishIknewinIR
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Teaching IR theory in a non-Western context emphasized (in a concrete/empirical way) the need to re-think what we mean when we teach ‘international’ relations. Whose perspectives and history are we really teaching? (5/8)
#ThingsIWishIknewinIR
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Jasmine Gani's article examines the historical relationship between the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Jamati Islam in South Asia.
@JasmineKGani
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Happy to see my review essay on the Arab Lefts, originally published by Legal Form
@form_legal
last month, is now up on Monthly Review
@monthly_review
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Randolph Persaud's article examines the thinking and political practices of two of the Caribbean’s most noted political figures, Cheddi Jagan and Walter Rodney.
@RandolphPersaud
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Branwen Gruffydd-Jones' piece explores the construction of affective solidarities within and across the spaces and boundaries of colonized and racialized worlds in the works of militant poets of the Portuguese colonies in Africa.
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Our recently published special issue was featured on
@jadaliyya
@timothyseidel
and I talked with the editors about crushed hopes and national liberation, and about current and future projects
@emiljanowicz
@JKGani
Link:
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A wonderful and enriching morning at the
@hopepedagogy
workshop. “I am not your data,” by Adivasi poet Abhay Flavian Xaxa. Thank you,
@ADibavar
for organizing this wonderful event.
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Quynh N. Pham's piece seeks to excavate the global dimensions of bà Nguyễn Thị Bình’s political work, as a Vietnamese revolutionary diplomat, and a champion of 'people's diplomacy.'
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Benedetta Zocchi theorizes the Balkans as a liminal space, where the EU border is produced through a colonial logic diffusing dichotomized and hierarchical relations of subordination.
@ZocchiBenedetta
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For instance, most local students found realism to be alienating, violent/bleak and foreign to their perception of the world. Funniest of all was teaching Thucydides/Peloponnesian War in HK and see the incomprehensive looks on their faces (3/8)
#ThingsIWishIknewinIR
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What and whom exactly do we teach when we teach IR?
I taught IR for 3y at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) soon after my PhD, and it quickly became clear that IR theory does not travel well outside the West (2/8)
#ThingsIWishIknewinIR
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Paul Emiljanowicz explores the translocality of 1960s Ghana and brings into conversation the connectivities crafted by official state diplomacies conducted by Kwame Nkrumah’s government, and various other local and transnational activisms.
@emiljanowicz
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This special issue brings together political theorists and international relations scholars and examines the multifaceted dimensions (including political, ideological, and psycho-affective) of a radical international thought.
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Alina Sajed and Timothy Seidel, eds., “Escaping the Nation? Anti-colonial Imaginaries and Postcolonial Settlements” (New Texts Out Now) via
@Jadaliyya
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The link to the book:
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@MRichterMontpet
@alirhowell
Thanks for the shoutout,
@MRichterMontpet
and
@alirhowell
! Much respect to both of you for your important and timely work! If this is what “clickbait” looks like, then I would like more of it.
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I should add that the article is free to access/download for 3 months.
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Happening TOMORROW, March 19
"Past and contemporary dimensions of racial capitalism: dialectics of freedom, violence, and reproductive labour"
1-3pm: Registration link in link below 👇
@Tilley101
@RobbieShilliam
@RandolphPersaud
@GlobalDev_ISA
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@karo_wm
@isanet
@BalsillieSIA
with apologies for self-promotion, Randolph Persaud and myself put together this textbook recently - I have used it successfully in my own classes:
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This is a review of Abdelkebir Khatibi's first English translation of Maghreb Pluriel. The original appeared in 1983 in French. It also became an opportunity to engage critically with the fraught encounter between decolonization and deconstruction.
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@karo_wm
Luckily, in the last few years there has been a surge of IR textbooks that look at the world from non-Western perspectives, or at least who incorporate the latter.
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@exiledrazan
@saramsalem
@feministswrite
@KohlJournal
We are the grateful ones, Razan and Nayrouz ! This is such a powerful piece, a must read!
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@MRichterMontpet
@alirhowell
I would also like to draw attention to the edited volume by
@RandolphPersaud
and myself on Race, Gender and Culture in IR:
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@Tilley101
@RobbieShilliam
@o_rutazibwa
@ThandiLoewenson
“Let’s do less Foucault and see what is actually happening out there” 😍😍😍 That’s one of the many reasons I love this man.
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@MRichterMontpet
@alirhowell
The volume includes very thoughtful engagements with race, gender and security by
@ADibavar
@srdjanvucetic
@RandolphPersaud
@SankaranKrishn
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@karo_wm
@isanet
@BalsillieSIA
And for those who like to teach the full IR spectrum there is this upcoming new edition edited by
@OrtiOricellari
and
@JacquiTrue
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Going beyond articulations of anti-colonial struggle at the national level, the issue charts radical theories and praxes of insurgency and revolutionary violence and brings an internationalist framework to bear on various historical moments
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We are grateful to Firelei Baez for allowing us to feature her gorgeous artwork on our cover
@FIRELEI
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@hanna_altaher
@KohlJournal
@saramsalem
@feministswrite
Thank you, Hanna, for sharing your beautiful work with us!
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Introduction to the special issue:
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@RebekahLVince
@KarimaLaachir
@youssefben
@tuhfatulhind
@AugustinJomier
@JudithNaeff
@cmkgitre
@drsaraharens
@khalidlym
I might flag this special issue on Making and Unmaking memories in the MENA, edited by
@saramsalem
and
@RobertoRoccu
:
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@karo_wm
I had to do a bit of both, I had to keep the textbook but there was more prefacing, invited students to offer their own views, and a lot more active/varied content.
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@ZNabolsy
@saramsalem
@ReviewsPolitics
@RobbieShilliam
@RandolphPersaud
My pleasure! It was amazing to be such brilliant company!
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