My book is out! 🎉🎊🌈✨ Thank you everyone (mentors, comrades, friends, colleagues) who supported me throughout this long journey.
The book asks: What does freedom mean without, and despite, the state?
This week Sussex made me permanent. That brings an end to 3 years of precarity, stress, and anxiety about whether I’ll be able to stay in academia. Solidarity with everyone stuck in these degrading and exploitative conditions. I see you & I will see you on the picket line! ✊
My book has a cover! 🌟💛
The picture is a detail from ‘Scenes from Childhood’ by Keith Morrison—I’m really grateful to Keith for letting me use it (check out his fantastic work here: )
The book will be out with
@CUP_PoliSci
in January(ish)
My book will be out next month (!!) It comes in a paperback and with generous endorsements from 4 of my favourite thinkers:
@phamthikang
@nsharma101
@HarshaWalia
& Denise Ferreira da Silva 😍
Pre-order here and add DANEWID23 for 20% off:
@CUP_PoliSci
Super surreal but it’s happening… This morning I submitted my first book! On racial capitalism, state violence, and dreams of antipolitics. Out with
@CambridgeUP
next spring 💫
STRIKE GERMANY is a call for international cultural workers to strike from German cultural institutions. It is a call to refuse German cultural institutions' use of McCarthyist policies that suppress freedom of expression, specifically expressions of solidarity with Palestine 1/x
Sussex has 2x fully funded Stuart Hall Foundation PhD fellowships available to Black British candidates starting next September. Get in touch with me or one of my colleagues at
@IRSussex
@SussexGlobal
if you're interested!
Congratulations to
@DeepakNair01
&
@IDanewid
, the joint recipients of the Best Article in the
@EuroJournIR
2020 Prize. Read the Prize Committee's comments here:
Yesterday we celebrated
@JoanneYao55
’s new book and it was brilliant! With champagne, views of the canal, and interventions from
@AyseZarakol
Kim Hutchings Cameron Harrington
@GeorgeLawsonIR
and
@LalehKhalili
. Congrats Jo for throwing the book launch party of the century! 🎈💫
You may have thought The Disorder Of Things was dead. Not yet!
Today we're back with a symposium on
@JoanneYao55
's THE IDEAL RIVER, curated by
@IDanewid
and launched with this post by
@GeorgeLawsonIR
. Commentaries to flow all this week. Get swimming.
In Paris to talk about borders, racial capitalism, and antipolitical refusal (and to eat all the croissants and soak up the sun). Thanks to
@anaisduongp
for inviting me 🌺
Join us on Monday at 9:30am PST for the launch of “The Black Mediterranean,” a volume edited by The Black Mediterranean Collective. This project has been in the works for several years, and we are thrilled to finally share it with you! Register here:
Talking about reproductive extraction today at the
@millennjournal
conference, as part of the roundtable on “The human project: race, empire, and the borders of the international” with
@LaurenBWilcox
@ayca_cu
and Julietta Singh. 4pm UK time. Join us!
Starting soon... 'Capital, Law, and Resistance: Between Abolition and Critique', a
@CGPE_Sussex
workshop organised by
@lara_cgpe
and me and with a brilliant lineup of speakers 💫
In my contribution to the symposium on
@JoanneYao55
’s The Ideal River, I think with Namwali Serpell and Sophie Lewis—on rivers, abolition ecology, and antipropertarian futures.
I'm chuffed to be part of the latest episode of
@AbtCitizenship
in which I talk about racial capitalism and the history of policing mobility. Listen here:
We're joined by
@Idanewid
@sussexglobal
, author of Resisting Racial Capitalism - a fantastic read that will inspire students & colleagues for years to come (it also has one of the most beautiful covers we've ever seen on an academic book!)
Starting today—our
@SASE_Meeting
mini-conference on “Racial Capitalism and the Global Carceral Empire of Control”! I’m stuck in London with Covid so the awesome
@SabrinaAxster
is running the show alone in Amsterdam 💖👏 Have fun everyone!
It argues that state power is central to racial capitalism's violent regimes of extraction and accumulation. Tracing the global histories of four technologies of state violence-policing, bordering, wastelanding, and reproductive control-it excavates an antipolitical archive of
as a utopian worldmaking project which seeks not just better ways of being governed, but an end to governance in its entirety. In a time where the state remains hegemonic across the Left–Right political spectrum, Resisting Racial Capitalism calls on us to dream bolder and better
This week, Mizue,
@ColineSchupfer
and I launched our edited volume, Resisting Borders+Tech, with
@haymarketbooks
. The book works towards developing a common vernacular across various traditions of abolitionist activism and resistance, channelling these towards the same root force
Join me &
@SabrinaAxster
at the
@SASE_Meeting
mini-conference on "Racial Capitalism and the Global Carceral Empire of Control." In Amsterdam and online--DM/email me if you have questions 😉 More info here:
anarchism that stretches from the favelas of Rio de Janeiro to the borderlands of Europe, the poisoned landscape of Ogoniland, and the queer lifeworlds of Delhi. Thinking with a rich set of scholars, organisers, and otherworldy dreamers, the book theorises these modes of refusal
⚡️Join me and my brilliant 3rd year students for a teach-out on “Race and Gender in the Neoliberal University.” Racial capitalism, empire, the undercommons, and more. TODAY 11am in Falmer House meeting room 2
@sussexstrike
⚡️
Event reminder for Thursday, March 9th! Dr Ida Danewid
@SussexUni
will be giving a GRIP talk based on her forthcoming book 'Resisting
#Racial
#Capitalism
: An Antipolitical Theory of Refusal'. The talk will held in the Al Qasimi Building, room IM102 from 3:00-5:00pm.
Thousands of us graduating this year will do so with no mark, no classification….
Due to Universities failing to meet
@ucu
demands thousands of us will walk across the graduation stage with an empty degree.
So here’s what
@SussexGlobal
at
@SussexUni
did.
We protested
☀️Out today! We are happy to announce the publication of the last AtGender edited volume Homonationalism, Femonationalism and Ablenationalism! By
@AggelikiSifaki
, C.L. Quinan & Katarina Loncarevic at
@routledgebooks
, with a foreword by Jasbir Puar
@jkpuar
, and Mitchell & Snyder!
Looking for 1-2 more papers on racial capitalism and state violence (policing, bordering, occupation, militarism, abandonment) to join 2 panels at
@europeanisa
in Athens. DM or email me or
@SabrinaAxster
🤓
We're very pleased to welcome Dr Lara Choksey, Dr Ida Danewid (
@IDanewid
) and Dr Maya Goodfellow (
@MayaGoodfellow
) as Visiting Research Fellows at the Sarah Parker Remond Centre within
@UCL_IAS
The preliminary programme is out! Extraction, Expropriation, Erasure? Knowledge Production in International Relations | 19-20 October | Just a few more spaces left | Join us!
An important
@PlutoPress
book written by Nadya Ali releases in May 2023. It examines how counterterrorism & immigration policy pressure Muslim/racialised people to reform their faith & behaviour to prove their
#Britishness
or risk being labelled 'extremists’. One to look out for.
Interested in racial capitalism and interconnected histories of policing, bordering, surveillance, and incarceration?
@SabrinaAxster
and I are organising one of the
@SASE_Meeting
mini-conferences in Amsterdam next July. Join us! CfP here:
🔥 "if your child is NOT feeling the sharp end of this, it's because precarious staff are BRILLIANT and DEDICATED and so so fucking hardworking, and will bend over backwards for their students - but human beings can only be stretched so far"
Precarious contracts mean:
- your student child might not be supervised by the best/desired tutor for their dissertation (bc their contract is ending)
- your child's personal tutor may change every term (as contracts end) instead of one tutor getting to know them & their work
1/
"We need to think about abolishing borders—humanising them is not enough." For
@engagee_journal
we interviewed
@IDanewid
about racial capitalism, politics of care and the Black Mediterranean. You can order the new issue "Who cares?" here:
Chair of Student Council
@SteveJack
on
@GBNEWS
"Once students have a conversation with striking workers they come to understand two things... Responsibility sits firmly with vice-chancellors and these striking workers are standing up for all of us"
#StudentSolidarity
#ucuRISING
My brilliant friend
@AnissaHaddadi
is organising a conference on "Decolonial Thinking and Revolutionary Events" at Goldsmiths next March. Apply and share widely 💫
We are proud to announce the extinguished keynotes for our upcoming end-of-project conference at
@FU_Berlin
next week:
Nandita Sharma
@nsharma101
P. Khalil Saucier
Bettina Bruns
Ida Danewid
@IDanewid
Lucy Williams
who will also give personal feedback to our 14 researchers!
We have just received communication from
@SussexUni
that all temporary contracts should now be terminated where possible. Accompanied by, "I am confident that if we pull together we can get through this and come out stronger the other side." If by "we" you mean permanent staff.
1/3 of all academic staff, 75,000 people, are on precarious contracts.
66,000 are on 'atypical contracts'.
This scale of exploitation shames the sector, and denies our members secure livelihoods.
Yet employers don't think casualisation is even worth discussing.
Dr Joanne Yao has been awarded our Best Article Prize 2019 with "'Conquest from barbarism': The Danube Commission, international order and the control of nature as a Standard of Civilization". Free to access here:
Next Wednesday I'm doing a guided walk through the Liz Rhodes restospective at Nottingham Contemporary. We'll discuss racial capitalism, the production of migrant illegality, and No Border activism. Come join us!
So many brilliant students in this cohort—it’s been such a pleasure to work and learn with you! ✨ A special shoutout to Gemma and Josey, I’m so so delighted for you 💐🥳
Huge congratulations to all of our graduates 2020!
🥳👏🏿😍👍🏽🤗👏🤩
Special congratulations go to Gemma Laws and Josephine Milner Day who will be awarded the Val McNaughton prize for highest academic achievement!
🎓🥳🎓
Well done and all the best for your futures!
I've just voted in our
@sussexucu
Exec elections, and I recommend you check out the candidate manifesto of a team of active union members including
@JoPawlik
and
@IRSussex
colleagues
@_FaizSheikh
and
@DavBrenner
, who are standing for contested positions:
If you're in Cologne, come join this super cool 2-day event which brings together musicians, artists, and academics to think about migration, colonial history, and cross-cultural connections. Day 1: and 2:
Last week
@LSE_UCU
published a damning report on academic casualisation with many excellent charts📈
I saw some people saying they'd like to see similar analysis for their own institution. So I went away and did that with interactive charts.
THREAD🧵:
📣 Come join Nivi Manchanda, Kerem Nişancıoğlu, Gargi Bhattacharyya & me at our CPD-BISA Annual Workshop in London (Birkbeck) on 20th Sept!
This year's theme is Racial Capitalism 📣
@cpdbisa
@ManchandaNivi
@Gargi_at_home
A long thread based on a longer document on UCU strategy and the way to create credible leverage against employers, rather than making them richer, through strike action. 🧵
#ucurising
Full argument here:
I can officially co-supervise research students at
@ArabicatLeeds
! If you know of anyone interested in working on (and with me) areas of statehood and state formation, its intersections on race, gender, and sexuality in the MENA - put them in touch.
It's been a hard year so in the gentlest way I wanted to announce a new book next year (Feb 2021)
Border and Rule:
Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
by Harsha Walia
Foreword by Robin D.G. Kelley, Afterword by Nick Estes
Join me &
@SabrinaAxster
at the
@SASE_Meeting
mini-conference on "Racial Capitalism and the Global Carceral Empire of Control." In Amsterdam and online--DM/email me if you have questions 😉 More info here:
For those interested in migration/border studies, colonialism and racial capitalism, I will be talking next week about the intimacies between dispossession and border security in Europe at
@RoyalHolloway
. I will have the privilege of having Prof
@vidkowiaksquire
as a discussant.
My article "Love is Worldmaking: Reading Rabindranath Tagore's Gora as International Theory" has just been published (open access) in
@ISQ_Jrnl
. Thinking with Tagore's "Gora", I ask: How does love "make" worlds?
I'm outrageously excited to share our CFP for the Millennium conference this year entitled, 'Extraction, Expropriation, Erasure? Knowledge Production in International Relations'. 19-20 October 2019. Please submit to us!
Interested in participatory and
#visualmethods
or female ex-combatants? My piece in
@IFJPglobal
is finally out, exactly 2 yrs after coming back from Aceh!
@SabrinaAxster
and I are looking for papers to join our ISA 2020 panel on "The Political Economy of Control: Race and (In)Security in the Neoliberal Present." Deadline 24 May: let us know if you're interested and please share widely!
@cpdbisa
@GDS_ISA
@isanet
@IDanewid
& I are at it again! We are organizing a panel on 'The Political Economy of Control' for
@isanet
2020 Conference in Hawai'i to follow-up on our
@europeanisa
Early Career Scholars Workshop. Please share CFP widely & submit an abstract if interested! Deadline is 24 May!