Our article "Positionality Statements as a Function of Coloniality: Interrogating Reflexive Methodologies" is now out in
@ISQ_Jrnl
@RabeaMKhan
and I explore the colonial epistemic roots of positionality statements and their racial functions👇
#OpenAccess
After 5 yrs working on it, our book on the Syrian conflict is now out. Used as a testing ground by Russia, Syria has seen over a decade of war w/immense human cost - But also carrying stories of hope. 🧵1/
My article 'Anti-colonial connectivity between Islamicate movements in the Middle East and South Asia: the Muslim Brotherhood and Jamati Islam' is now out - Open Access.
Grateful for the scholarship, feedback & many conversations that contributed to it.
🥁 Our special issue on Race and Imperialism in IR is now out & *Open Access*!
@DrJennaMarshall
and I are honoured to have guest-edited the
@IAJournal_CH
centennial issue, working with brilliant scholars across the globe & the fantastic team at IA. 🧵1/
🚨New issue OUT NOW: Race and imperialism in International Relations 🚨
This issue, launching our 100th year, uncovers the colonial basis for knowledge production in IR, and how it impacts both academia and policy today.
FREE to access here > 🧵
Congratulations to my PhD student Hessa Alnuaimi (not on twitter) for publishing her first journal article "The Role of Colonial Knowledge in Building the Arab Gulf's Migration Regime" (👇 Open Access). So important and timely
The Syrian conflict is one of the worst humanitarian disasters this century: between 350,000 - 607,000 people have been killed (UN & SOHR official records, but many deaths uncounted); 11m people have been displaced. 90% of those in Syria live below the poverty line. 3/
Many features of the conflict in Syria are being repeated in Ukraine, including targeting of hospitals, sieges of towns and cities, disinformation campaigns, temporary local truces. 2/
Glad to be part of this Special Issue and in such good company - "Anti-colonial connectivity & the politics of solidarity"
Thanks to wonderful editors
@AlinaSajed
&
@timothyseidel
. You can read all the articles here 👇
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
@Postcolonials
This is good news.
More than 1000 St Andrews faculty & students signed the letter for divestment calling for the university to uphold its own ethical investment policy.
Signatures can still be added to the growing list here:
Our
@IAJournal_CH
introductory article 'The impact of colonialism on policy and knowledge production in International Relations' (w/
@DrJennaMarshall
) provides an overview of all the special issue articles and makes 4 main arguments: 1/
Read 📑'The impact of colonialism on policy and knowledge production in International Relations' for an introduction to our new issue.
Find the article by guest editors
@JasmineKGani
and
@DrJennaMarshall
open access here >
@tombateman
Thank you for your work on this. Our neighbour was deployed to Palestine as a young soldier in WW2 - he used to recount with horror witnessing incidents like these. Role of the British during the mandate often gets overlooked..
The burden of writing about a conflict in one's homeland is a heavy one. So we are especially grateful to our Syrian contributors who despite personal impact & losses from this devastating war have been so generous with their scholarship & experience. 7/
The University must divest from companies that are profiting from or supporting the ongoing genocide and occupation in Palestine.
Students and Staff and invited to sign this letter calling for divestment -
I ran out of choices. Please help me evacuate my family from Gaza to Egypt. I’m hoping to travel to Egypt as soon as I have the amount needed to facilitate their exit directly. Please share and donate as much as you can.
#GoFundMe
Many thanks to everyone who participated in this symposium and to
@DuckofMinerva
for hosting.
Our symposium intro below w/
@DrJennaMarshall
👇& participant contributions in the thread.
The
@IAJournal_CH
special issue is open access until end of April
Two years on
@JasmineKGani
and I reflect on the publication of our
@IAJournal_CH
'Race & Imperialism in IR' w/ a symposium that prompts us to consider this current moment through terms of GLOBAL demands for justice & equality
Many congratulations to our PhD graduates
@univofstandrews
🎉
Very proud to see my brilliant student Dr Muneerah Razak graduate - many more achievements to come inshallah
@mnrhrzk
! ⭐
Between 2012-2018 a number of turning points led to militarisation, external intervention, one of the largest refugee communities, but also a flourishing of civil society. The book explores these critical developments in 5 parts... 4/
Huge congratulations to the wonderful Muneerah
@mnrhrzk
(now Dr Razak!) for passing her viva and for completing such an original and important project. Was a pleasure to supervise & very proud of Muneerah. Look out for her future work⭐️🎉
Took a while to sink in but I passed my viva last week, Alhamdullilah🎉 I am grateful to examiners Dr Rahul Rao
@thariel
and Prof Syed Farid Alatas for the thought-provoking and encouraging conversation. Special thanks to my brilliant supervisors,
@JasmineKGani
and
@GurchSanghera
You can now get 20% off 'Actors and Dynamics in the Syrian Conflict' using the code FLE22 - see flyer below👇. The cost of academic books can be prohibitive, but hope this helps a little. Feel free to share w/ those who might be interested in purchasing
A bit of professional news ✨ Today I start my new role as fintech reporter for Bloomberg News. Excited to take on this new challenge and work alongside brilliant reporters and editors
The full list of contents can be read here: . The book is available in paperback and currently has a discount for those who wish to purchase/ order for libraries. 6/
We are grateful to the many people named in the acknowledgements, and those who attended various presentations of this paper, for their invaluable support. And many thanks to the reviewers & editors for the helpful feedback 🙏
i) Early turning points including Russian intervention & UN stalemate ii) Local contentious politics & opposition groups iii) Regime pushback and Militarisation iv) Est. of a war economy v) Refugees, intellectuals and transnational civil society.
5/
Many congratulations to my brilliant supervisee Hessa Alnuaimi on her successful Viva. Look out for her future work on Race and migrant labour in the Arab Gulf.
Thanks to examiners Nivi Manchanda and
@HsinyenLai
Hessa Alnuaimi’s viva was held on Tuesday and she passed. The title of Hessa’s thesis is ‘The Legitimation of the Arab Gulf States through Colonial Racialisations’.
Well done Dr Alnuaimi 😊
New article by the brilliant
@MalakaShwaikh
on the limits and harms of 'resilience' discourse 👇
This is a long form follow-up to her earlier intervention in
@PPR_HKS
(read here: )
@EstelleSmithPhD
@ISQ_Jrnl
@RabeaMKhan
Hi Estelle, thanks for your query & interest. We are in fact saying (in many cases) "do not include positonality statements". We have provided the explanation and context in the full article - it's free to access, no paywall.
Hope you can join us at today's Chatham House
@IAJournal_CH
panel on 'Colonial Constructions of the Middle East and South Asia' 17.30 GMT
w/
@AltheaMRivas
@ssen03
@SharriPlonski
Nivi Manchanda and me.
Online & open to all; you can register here👇
Congratulations to
@AbozaidahmedM
(now Dr!) for passing his viva on his thesis titled "Decolonising the study of the state: A Neo-Khaldūnian perspective on authority, violence, and resistance". A valuable and original contribution- a pleasure to examine & discuss it with
@hpb95
@ProfTonyLang
I am still processing the most beautiful and happiest 3 hours of my academic life. That was most insightful, rigorous, and tense (omg! my knees were trembling). I have the honor and the privilege to be examined by two of the most respected IR scholars
@hpb95
&
@JasmineKGani
💚🙏
Webinar today
@oxfordMec
reflecting on the Raba'a massacre 10 years on.
I'll be speaking on the Raba'a massacre and the racialisation of dissent.
Thanks to organisers Gehad Hasanin &
@DrUsaama
. Register via link 👇
Join us for our 2-day online ZOOM webinar conference
🗓️Tuesday 15 August & Wednesday 16 August 2023
🕐1pm UK BST to🕡6.30pm UK BST both days
Full details:
Registration essential:
We very much look forward to you joining us.
"The expectation of Palestinian ‘resilience’ normalises & enables more Israeli violence. It risks freeing the international community from its ethical responsibility to do more in order to put an end to injustice."
By
@MalakaShwaikh
@StAndrewsIR
in
@LRB
Congratulations to Shikha Dilawri
@sheekha_d
on her new article "The Worldmaking of Mobile Vernacular Capitalists: Tracing Entanglements Between Race, Caste and Capital".
A rich and (as ever) beautifully-written piece 👇
Very happy to share my new (and first!) journal article. It's out with
@millennjournal
and is open access:
It uncovers entanglements between race, caste, and capital in the Indian Ocean and asks what they reveal about the workings of racial capitalism.
For those interested in race/racism in the political theory canon: online workshop on 'Kant and Racial Discrimination'👇
@ruhrunibochum
today & tomorrow (2pm CET). 2 spaces left - if you're keen to attend pls DM/email me
The special issue explores how race & imperialism shape the academia-policy relationship, via complicities & contentions.
@DrJennaMarshall
& I discuss these themes in our intro article "The impact of colonialism on policy & knowledge production in IR"
3/
The annual Cambridge IR & History conference will be on 19 May. The theme is "War in History," with panels on empire, law, and technoscience. The keynote will be given by Prof. Neta Crawford.
@HistoryIr
@Dept_of_POLIS
@CambridgeCRIA
Many congratulations to Kwaku and Kwesi
@KaiptcGh
. Their article is an excellent contribution to the centenary special issue (and in the field of International & African security) - worthy joint winners of the
@IAJournal_CH
prize⭐️
The IA Centenary Prize joint winners are...
Kwaku Danso & Kwesi Aning for ‘African experiences and alternativity in International Relations theorizing about security’ (98:1, January 2022)
Read the article
#openaccess
here >
If you missed our webinar on colonial constructions of the MidEast & South Asia earlier this yr, the recording is now available to watch online👇
Thanks co-panellists & audience for a great discussion; &
@IsabelMuttreja
@AndrewDormanIA
@ChathamHouse
@IAJournal_CH
for hosting
Want to learn about how racialized and colonial ideas have impacted communities and politics in the Middle East and South Asia?
Watch our webinar recording online now to find out >
@JasmineKGani
@ssen03
@SharriPlonski
@AltheaMRivas
Thank you for sharing. Still open access, our article 'The impact of colonialism on policy & knowledge production in International Relations' w/
@DrJennaMarshall
in
@IAJournal_CH
👇
this took a long time. I'm so happy to share my latest paper in
@RISjnl
, looking at racial entanglement, masculinism, and gendered East/West binaries in global reactionary discourse (via another look at Chinese anti-baizuo discourse).
I was interviewed for
@E_IR
, where I talk about my work, scholars who’ve inspired my research, my frustration with intersectionality, and what’s next for me.
Thanks to
@katiaarese
for asking such great questions!
Huaping Lu-Adler's book "Kant, Race & Racism" is a must-read if interested in race/enlightenment thought
A pleasure to discuss it w/a great group of scholars. Thanks
@R_Mosayebi
& Marie Göbel for organising & being wonderful hosts 🙏
Three days of full-scale, enriching discussion on such an important topic (Lu-Adler’s book “Kant, Race, and Racism”), yet still widely ignored (especially in Germany).
And completing the special issue line-up in style is Luke Ashworth's piece "Warriors, pacifists and empires: race and racism in international thought before 1914"
@lucian_ashworth
17/
The Beyond Militarism conf was excellent. Thanks
@expfc
@CamSociology
for organising; & fellow participants, all doing interesting work which I look fwd to citing.
A good example of a successful hybrid format. These spaces should be accessible to all, hybrid should be the norm
Last day of the Beyond Militarism conference — thank you everyone who took part & made this the inspiring and hugely enjoyable time it was! Special thanks to Prof Neel Ahuja for sending us off with an incredible (& motivating!) keynote &
@LaurenBWilcox
, awesome discussant!! 🔥🔥
"While the alliance never explicitly mentions race or a notion of racial superiority, it is nonetheless produced by and reproduces racialized binaries & a racially hierarchical global order"
Great article by
@somdeep_sen
on NATO, race & the Middle East
@IAJournal_CH
C4P! We are hosting our annual conference this September 3-4 in Sheffield. The theme is the label of 'terrorism' and the permissibility of violence. Please submit an abstract by 19 July and come take part in the discussion!
@MYBISA
A huge thank you to the
@IAJournal_CH
team - Outstanding support, smooth process throughout & a hopeful vision for the discipline. An all round excellent experience. Here's
@AndrewDormanIA
's editorial on IA's goals for a global & inclusive journal 18/
By Jan Wilkens and Alvine R C Datchoua-Tirvaudey: "Researching climate justice: a decolonial approach to global climate governance"
@AlvineDatchoua
@JanWilkens
9/
An important intervention on the overlaps between eco-fascism, discourse on 'overpopulation', and eugenicism by
@Tilley101
and
@maxajl
- thanks for writing this
'Eco-socialism will be anti-eugenic or it will be nothing: Towards equal exchange & the end of population' with
@maxajl
now out & open access in
@JournalPolitics
Hessa's article explores the historical racialisation and discrimination of South Asian labourers in the Gulf region. Keep an eye out for her work in future - she doing original and brave research
@StAndrewsIR
By Sharri Plonski and Nivi Manchanda: "Between mobile corridors and immobilizing borders: race, fixity and friction in Palestine/Israel"
@SharriPlonski
12/
Congratulations to all the special issue authors! Deep gratitude for their hard work & perseverance especially in such a difficult pandemic year. We are excited for you to read, share, and cite their excellent articles. Links to all the articles below... 2/
We're grateful to the many reviewers for being so giving with their time and expertise; and to the panel who selected our proposal for the special issue, believed in the importance of the topic, and entrusted us with it. 20/
And finally thanks everyone for being so supportive, generous & for sharing the excitement! 🙏We appreciate all those people - scholars, communities, elders, past & present - whose efforts paved the way for contributions like this SI & many more to come. Alhamdulillah. 21/
Reminder that Dr Maha Nassar
@mtnassar
(author of the excellent book 'Brothers Apart: Palestinian citizens in Israel' ) will be speaking today at the
@MecacsStA
@StAndrewsIR
seminar. 4pm on Teams, registration details below if you'd like to attend:
We're very excited to be welcoming Dr Maha Nassar (
@mtnassar
) of
@uarizona
to give a talk on 'Equality vs Freedom: Continuity and Change in the Demands of '48 Palestinians' as part of our
@MecacsStA
@StAndrewsIR
seminar series. Please email irevents
@st
-andrews.ac.uk to register.
We are delighted to have Dr
@zeynepn_kaya
of
@ShefUniPolitics
join us
@SyriaStudies
@StAndrewsIR
to speak about her book 'Mapping Kurdistan: Territory, Self Determination and Nationalism'.
This Thursday 17 March. Open to all, registration details below ⬇️
"Even though Israeli citizenship is part of our colonisation, we are bound to it, and we are forced to fight for it."
Important read on the precarity and paradox of Israeli citizenship for '48 Palestinians, by
@Lana_Tatour
Some thoughts on the structural violence of Israeli citizenship for ‘48 Palestinians & on the paradox of what it means to be dependent on the citizenship of the state that colonizes us so we can survive & remain in our homeland.
@AJEnglish
I’m running focus groups next month on the subject of digital Muslim spaces.. so there’s nowhere more appropriate than a digital Muslim space to recruit participants! Please do get in touch if you’d like to be part of these conversations in Cardiff or London. Please share.
We'd also like to acknowledge those who were on the project (covering e.g S.America, ) but sadly withdrew due to bereavement, illness & other challenges. They played an important part in the conversation & we hope they publish their articles in future. 19/
I wrote for
@Amaliah_Tweets
about how the
#trojanhorseaffair
witch-hunt illustrates the impossibility of Muslim civic activism in a system invested in working class Muslims remaining forever an underclass
- Colonial practice has also shaped knowledge production in academia/ museums/ schools
- The complicity between colonial policies/knowledge can be (and has been) challenged by expanding what we view as knowledge & who we view as experts. Open Access: 3/3
Also huge congratulations to the equally brilliant Bennett Collins (co-supervised with
@GurchSanghera
) for recently passing his viva on his thesis "Moralising Dispossession: Tracing Ethnogeographies of Settler Colonial Environmental Governance in the
United States" ....
Next,
@mjbayly
writing "on the global entanglements of race, empire, and knowledge" queries how scholars of IR should understand and navigate the 'new imperialisms' of the 21st century. 2/
My student
@Ryan0Swan
is looking to centre perspectives of Arab asylum seekers/refugees in his PhD research on NGOs in Scotland. Pls share poster below/ contact Ryan if you can help
@MecacsStA
@SyriaStudies
@RabeaMKhan
@LJMUIR5
⭐ and may it be a chapter full of blessings, sakina & success - alhamdulillah 🎉congratulations again Rabea (and
@LJMUIR5
on an excellent hire!), v happy and excited for you
..& Aisha Alrashdi (co-supervised with Ray Hinnebusch
@SyriaStudies
) for passing with her thesis "Sectarianisation of the Arab Uprisings in Syria & Bahrain".
So proud of all three - they are smart, compassionate, sincere young scholars. Follow & support their future work ⭐
@USEmpire
discusses the broader 'legitimacy crisis' in western academic knowledge production, and warns against the use of 'decolonisation' as a form of rebranding. 5/
@StphnHwrdJns
Hi Stephen, on historical racialisation of Muslims see Zachary Lockman's book 'Contending visions..'; also articles by Delatolla & Yao 2019; myself 2021; Rabea Khan 2021 in CRR.
A timely book by
@AbozaidahmedM
exploring the colonial roots of counterterrorism in Egypt and its use as a tool of state repression by the current regime.
After yrs of struggle (& not just writing the manuscript), it’s unbelievable to see my new book out w/
@Rout_PoliticsIR
& Critical Terrorism Studies series. First to address more than 100 yrs of state repression under the name of counterterrorism🧵