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Writer, researcher, reader, talker • AHRC/BBC New Gen Thinker • Subjectivity & Decolonisation in the Post-Independence Novel & Film @EdinburghUP out now

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Author's copies arrived! Out 30 June & available for pre-order now, my interdisciplinary book explores the psycho-political relationship between decolonisation & the self — delving into 1950s-1980s African & South Asian novels & films in the process 📚🎬
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This is a really under-utilised map whenever conversations about 'civilisation' come up
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This is 33 🎂 All I want for my birthday... is a world free of imperialism
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When you're a sea baby who has ended up living in England and all it takes for everything to be okay is some turquoise
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Happy birthday Samir Amin, born #OnThisDay in 1931, who analysed 'Eurocentrism as a global project that reinforced imperialism & systemic inequalities by legitimising a global system that expropriated resources & exploited people in the Global South'
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If you want decolonisation go to the economics of Samir Amin | Aeon Essays

If you really want decolonisation, go beyond cultural criticism to the deep structural insights of economist Samir Amin

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Wait till they find out the notion of studying English literature (& so the birth of the discipline) was the idea of a colonial officer who wanted to create "Indians who are English in tastes" to be "the interpreter class" amongst the colonised
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English 'operated as a language of the coloniser', students are told

The University of East Anglia - which boasts Nobel Prize laureate Kazuo - has branded English as a 'coloniser' language and will scrap teaching Shakespeare.

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I am so excited to see this out in the world; a problem that has captured me for years, thought & rethought, & by no means finalised. My article "Becoming in a colonial world: approaching subjectivity with Fanon" is out in Textual Practice (Open Access) ➡️
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As many have noted below, the map (not by me) is incomplete — the real picture is more damning. I also recommend Angela Saini's book 'Superior' on the eugenicist ideas behind them, & I've written on how human zoos were one foundation to European museology:
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Why We Need to Change the Art-Repatriation Debate

The recent weaponisation of ‘universality’ in the debate reveals that the old colonial lie of European exceptionalism is alive and well

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@PriyamvadaGopal This. I'm at the London demos almost every saturday & it's always constant oscillation between feeling a bit heartened at the display of solidarity & the more hard-hitting feeling of how utterly inconsequential hundreds of thousands on the street are to those 'representatives'
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I have withdrawn my participation in the internal assessment panel for the AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinkers 2024 selection process due to @UKRI_News 's decision to suspend Research England's EDI Advisory Group.
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It's now real, tangible, corrected, defended, very red, and in physical existence 😱 You can prop your doors open with it! 😆 #PhDone 🎓
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What a day, what an experience. Half a million marching in solidarity. #CeasefireNOW
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Published in English for the first time – 'We Slaves of Suriname' (1934), the first study of Dutch colonial rule from the perspectives of the people who resisted it
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The land of the freed people

'We Slaves of Suriname' (1934) was the first study of Dutch colonial rule from the perspectives of the people who resisted it. It is has been published in English for the first time.

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@NicholasGuyatt I was going to lol about his phrase "this child of empire" but then he turned out literally to be the child of colonial settlers
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Been holding off until everything was confirmed but I'm ecstatic to say I will be joining @CityUniEnglish as a lecturer (anglophone postcolonial literatures) this September! I'm so excited to be a part of this fantastic department & grateful that they've taken a chance on me!
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What a journey 🙌🏼 #PhD thesis submitted 💻 Thank you to my supervisor @PriyamvadaGopal for her guidance; @ahrcpress for funding; @othmanalbahri1 for rooting for me every day; @_joeshaughnessy for all the brilliant conversations; & so many others. Now for the defence! #roadtoDr
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But "it's not about race", right
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When you’re Ukrainian in 🇬🇧 v when you’re Afghan in 🇬🇧
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After a spring of proposal revisions & a summer of peer review, I'm thrilled (& stunned) to have signed a contract with @EdinburghUP ! My monograph based on my PhD, "Subjectivity and Decolonisation in the Post-Independence Novel and Film", will (hopefully) materialise in 2023 🥳
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Pass with minor corrections!! ☺️ Thank you so much to my examiners Dr. Chris Warnes and @ProfMadhuK for an intense & incredibly valuable 2 hours of questions & discussion! The past 3.5 years were made possible thanks to a small & dear group of people; I am because you are.
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"Fanon was a political thinker, a revolutionary militant, & a psychiatrist,& all of these aspects of his life formed a coherent unity: dialectical, complementary, & enriching each other.After all, his was a project of combating alienation in all its forms"
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The psychology of oppression and liberation

What would Fanon say about the ongoing genocide in Palestine?

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Who, exactly, is trying to 'incite a race war' has become abundantly clear. Congrats to @PriyamvadaGopal who has successfully challenged the DailyFail's false & malicious allegations
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May I draw people's attention to this small but fine piece of prose in today's Daily Mail? A free press is a fine thing--when combined with the obligation to tell the truth, and being held to account when that obligation is violated.
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Some memorable reads from 2022 (for different reasons...)
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"The war has been remembered as an inexplicable catastrophe that highly civilised European powers sleepwalked into after the 'long peace' of the 19th century. We tend to forget that imperialism was widely seen as crucial to national progress & prosperity."
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"So much of the aid & charity sector is lagging behind the times. Their ways of working are steeped in a colonialist framework, most visible in the way they formulate narratives about black people & people of colour, over & over again."
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NEW @WritersOfColour Comic Relief and Stacey Dooley's responses to David Lammy betray deeper issues in the aid sector By @ShaistaAziz and @Je_ne_tweet_pas of NGO Safe Space
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James Baldwin first came to Istanbul 60 years ago this year. Here he is in Emirgan, Istanbul, in 1965, having some nargile/shisha/hookah.
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"Davis was able to frame millions of deaths as avoidable – rather than inevitable – political tragedies. He was able to situate poverty in a relational dynamic to wealth, describing it as a systematic process of impoverishment rather than a state of being"
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@PriyamvadaGopal Embarrassed & sorry as a King's student, Priya. Not shocked, sadly. My parents visited recently & my (brown) father was stopped & asked if "you sir" was "with them" (me & my white) mother. He's hard of hearing & so couldn't understand what I did of that situation, luckily.
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Is it surprising many of us who live & work in said institution support the academic who voiced her experience of life & work in said institution? Could numbers possibly indicate a structural problem, not @PriyamvadaGopal seeking a 'row'? Crazy thought.
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King's College racism row: Students support academic

Porters at King's College in Cambridge are accused of "hassling" non-white staff and students.

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For @ArtReview_ , I review the late David Graeber & @davidwengrow 's decade-long collaboration, The Dawn of Everything. Thinking we're 'freer' than ever, we are obedient, isolated & immobile to a degree that would have baffled our ancestors...
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David Graeber & David Wengrow’s History of Humanity Asks: When Did We Get Stuck?

Why do we assume that we are more capable of critical inquiry, free will, imagination or cognitive skill than our ancient ancestors?

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I graduated this morning, as in, I watched people speaking latin on a live stream as I had some cream cheese on toast, in my bedroom. No more surreal than anyone's last 1.5yrs! Goodbye @Kings_College 👋🏽 & a drink on me in London to the next @englishunicam pandemic PhD finisher 😅
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It has a cover! And a webpage! And an endorsement! It's really happening. Out this June, 'Subjectivity and Decolonisation in the Post-Independence Novel and Film' began in thought 6 years ago & ends in style thanks to the lovely folks at @EdinburghUP 📚
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A great birthday present in my inbox - I'll be joining the AHRC Peer Review College from March 🥳 @ahrcpress funding made my PhD possible & I'm looking forward to doing my bit to push for promising research to get the support it needs
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A pinch-me moment! Can't wait to bring my research to @bbcradio3 alongside 9 amazing colleagues 🎙🙌🏼 @ritorneropoeta @jakecampbell88 @Jake_S_Richards @VidSimoniti @lauren_working @FlorenceHazrat @AdjoaOsei1 @_mirelaivanova_ @DrFarihaShaikh Tune in ⤵️
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BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Introducing New Generation Thinkers 2021

Ten researchers look at colonial history, alphabets, punctuation, poetry, art terminology.

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"A spokesperson for the Queen dismissed suggestions that there might be looted goods on her properties, the Guardian said." 🙃 lol
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UK Police Are Prohibited From Searching the Queen’s Home for Looted Goods

The exception for the Queen is part of an act established in 2017 allowing police the power to search areas where they suspect stolen artifacts may be held.

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Oh boy. As a small mixed woman who has lived in cities most her life without a car, I'll die on this hill. "Some people walk with the belief that even the Earth should reposition itself to suit their chosen path." (Also, goodbye & thanks @galdemzine 💜)
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Also incidentally an excellent visualisation of what the 'rules-based order' some have been yapping about at Davos actually is, & for whom it is
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This is how state reactions look like at 19:00 GMT on the 22nd of January. I've added Japan 🇯🇵 and 121 states of the Non-Aligned Movement. For details as to why, see the main methodology thread. I will post a link below
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So we come to the Daily Fail & it's frothing at the mouth for something that not a single student, even back when I was in ugrad, was surprised to read about. Fascinating how we're the snowflakes but we don't throw a tantrum when historical facts fail to exist to stroke our egos
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Turkish satirical mag hitting the nail on the head as per. Top left: "The same people who called the Gezi protesters 'vandals & terrorists' really loved the US antiracist revolts". Speech bubble: "Soon as I get beyond Edirne [Turkish city nearest Europe], my leftiness flares up!"
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#Uykusuz (664) yarın bayilerde!
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"Nothing to see here, just a direct order from the top that forbids critical scholarly engagement with a historical figure. Turn, instead, your attention to those 'woke' who are preventing you from enjoying the feel-good myth we endorse. Good thing we're not authoritarian here!"
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Churchill College's Master, Athene Donald has disbanded the Working Group on Churchill, Race, and Empire. The third event in the series--on commemoration--did not get held due to pressure from the Churchill family & Policy Exchange, & the college taking fright after the backlash
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"What colonial officials didn’t destroy, they hid. In Nairobi, nine days before Kenya became independent, four packing crates of sensitive papers were hustled into a plane and flown to London"
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It's hard to believe the final step is here, but my minor corrections were accepted & I've just been approved for the PhD! Now to submit the hard-bound & electronic copies. I feel like even after that I won't dare put the "Dr" up there just yet, in case they change their minds 😂
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Great opportunity at the University of Geneva for postcolonial literatures –
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A curriculum that's representative, & free of illusions around Empire? My piece in @TheTLS on decolonising English
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English literature – without the Empire nostalgia | TLS

Sarah Jilani argues that, for the sake of good teaching, universities must decolonize their English curriculums

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"The English imperial mentality of not having to answer to anyone, exercised by men steeped in ruling class secrets & lies, can still be seen today in men like Rees-Mogg & their distaste at the thought of Britain’s history being more honestly discussed"
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Imperial Power & Conservative Taboo: ‘Shutting Down Debate on Empire is Britain’s Ultimate Imperial...

Following the backlash over a ‘wokeist’ National Trust report on the links of historic buildings to colonialism and slavery, Hardeep Matharu speaks to one of its editors about how the predictable...

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After my first #NewGenThinker @BBCRadio3 recordings taking place under makeshift soundproofing (my own duvet), last night was a vast improvement! Thanks for having me in the studio @BBCFreeThinking – can't wait to be back soon! Listen to our episode here:
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Turkey still red list when: ☑️7-day rolling average for new cases 232.46; in UK it's 464.76 ☑️NHS figures show only 1.7% of people arriving in UK from Turkey tested + in last 3 weeks ☑️Turkey 3rd in world for genomes shared Can only surmise @grantshapps had a bad döner experience
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Decolonization is different from diversification: it entails addressing entrenched power structures rather than mere representation. It is also about how museums can facilitate historical accuracy. In @TheTLS , I consider some recent institutional attempts:
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Sarah Jilani argues that Western institutions must interrogate their own colonial histories

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"I have no knowledge of either Sanscrit or Arabic. But I have done what I could to form a correct estimate of their value," Macaulay writes, & from this super reassuring & comprehensive estimation, advises a shelf of English lit is worth whole libraries of works in the former two
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Happy birthday & rest in power Frantz Omar Fanon, born #OnThisDay in 1925, Martinique. The more I read & re-read his work every year, the more I find. Who knows what fiercely hopeful & critically profound analyses of our world & ourselves he had yet to give, had he lived longer.
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Got some rare good news in these weird times - my student got a First in the dissertation I supervised, and is graduating with a First overall from Cambridge! Getting thank yous in this context turns out to be a whole different kinda feels ☺️
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😂👏🏼 "Are you on your gap year? To find yourself? How did you lose yourself? What makes you think you’ll find yourself here? I think maybe you should look for yourself at home. Maybe you’re under the sofa?"
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Travelling whilst white? These are the questions African immigration officials may ask you.. via @WritersofColour
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"After the last antique carriage clatters back on palace cobblestones, bleak daylight will reveal a Britain with a shrinking economy, 3M hungry children, lowered life expectancy & pensioners choosing between a meal & keeping warm." @PriyamvadaGopal
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With Charles III coronation, colonialism is coming home to roost

From a plundered economy to a police force ready to crush protests, Britain today looks like its colonies once did.

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@RebTamas I immediately thought of how the two girls in White Lotus read Wretched of the Earth by the pool, then they unselfconsciously use and discard the Hawaiian staff
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What a charged & informative series of talks this was last night – we were all spellbound listeners. Huge thank you to our panelists @M_S_Beg , @was_yaq @NitashaKaul & Mehroosh Tak, @SurabhiRanganat for chairing, & all co-organisers. Live tweets at @CambridgePoco !
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A very important discussion and learning occasion. Kashmiris on Kashmir, as the siege heads into its third month.
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A recent document reveals Israel’s ‘Gaza 2035’ vision, which aims to turn it into a manufacturing hub for the region. This is an old colonial fantasy with a futuristic spin. More in my op-ed for @ArtReview_ .com ⬇️
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‘Gaza 2035’ Is an Old Colonial Fantasy With a Futuristic Spin

A recent document reveals Israel’s ‘Gaza 2035’ vision, which aims to turn it into a manufacturing hub for the region. We’ve seen this before

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Teaching Mahasweta Devi's Draupadi this week, & I think this guy I went on 3 dates with a while ago who said to me 'why don't you ever talk about nice things like the weather?' was onto something. The emotional toll of having to think/read on (neo)colonial violence is realc[..]
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one Thomas Babington Macaulay (1835)
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In a way, Macaulay's hope that Indians will internalise that English literature contains the sacred "essence" of "Englishness", & see the latter as a superior state of being to which they too could aspire, despite being "Indian in blood & colour", worked amazingly well back home
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I go on a year's unpaid leave from my full-time lectureship today. This is the best decision for my health at this time, & I'm feeling so positive about it! I found it fascinating, though, that when I shared this with some driven young people, they were shocked. THREAD 🧵
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"Colonial psychiatry in West Africa had emerged first & foremost from an imperative to maintain colonial order, joining together medicine, surveillance, & incarceration in powerful & enduring ways." From @africasacountry series "Psychiatry beyond Fanon"
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The legacy of French colonial psychiatry

French psychiatry in West Africa saw Black bodies as “alien” to white ones. It hasn't changed much.

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For better skin, I can 100% recommend no longer having to write a thesis #OutOfOffice #AcaDowntime
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"Was attacked" = was counter-argued by his peers in an open letter. "Limiting intellectual debate" = being proven wrong in the intellectual debate had. "Colonialism scholar" = theology professor. @thetimes has decided facts are so 2016
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Climate of fear at Oxford, warns colonialism scholar Nigel Biggar

An Oxford professor who was attacked for his comments about colonialism has claimed that informal peer pressure is limiting intellectual debate at the universit

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"Most books/essays I've seen about being childfree by choice are written by white cis women. We need to hear from women of colour & women from different cultural & faith backgrounds, & trans men & non-binary people who choose to be childfree" @monaeltahawy
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Essay: Unmothering

Arabic version of Unmothering. I am childfree by choice. My paternal grandmother had eight children. My maternal grandmother had 11 children (she was pregnant 14 times). My mother is the eldest of...

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Dr Sarah Jilani
@sarahjilani
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@DrPragyaAgarwal Turns out you don't need to read a book to be a columnist these days. If Janice cracked open something by bell hooks on any given page she'd encounter the revelation that feminism is deeply concerned about what patriarchy, racism & capitalism does to men and boys
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Dr Sarah Jilani
@sarahjilani
5 years
For @1843mag , I delve into the surprisingly big history of this small cup of coffee...
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Dr Sarah Jilani
@sarahjilani
3 years
So my faculty library is trialling an online archive that includes a lot of colonial material, & it's truly a feat in reading btw the lines even before you try to find stuff. Anticolonial movements are "unrest"; imperial punitive measures are "legal changes"...
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Dr Sarah Jilani
@sarahjilani
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"Many of the people who aren’t angry about the inequality that exists within our film industry aren’t angry because they either directly or indirectly benefit from the inequality. They’re comfortable with the status quo. Let’s face facts."
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Dr Sarah Jilani
@sarahjilani
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For the @ArtReview_ Summer 2024 issue, I wrote on Palestinian photographer Ahlam Shibli's powerful attempts to witness 'for and with others targeted by imperial violence'. Available online here (no paywall) ⬇️
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Ahlam Shibli Bears Witness For, and With, Palestinian Lives

What is an image of Palestine? What can any image say about a continuous history of occupation, violence, identity and displacement?

artreview.com
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Dr Sarah Jilani
@sarahjilani
3 years
Flight attendant: Is there a doctor on the plane? Me: Yes, but I'm not that kind of Flight attendant: The pilots are debating whether and how decolonisation as a material process transforms subjectivities Me: Hold my seat belt
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Dr Sarah Jilani
@sarahjilani
3 years
I was thrilled to profile the formidable & fearless Kurdish artist Zehra Doğan for @ArtReview_ Asia's Summer 2021 issue. On the Third Worldist liberation tradition, the artist as critical-yet-committed, & the feminist future.
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ArtReview Asia Summer Issue Out Now

Zehra Doğan’s art of feminist protest; Shahzia Sikander and Julie Mehretu’s queer optic; Ayman Zedani and the future of the Gulf; Zarina and the meaning of home; a steamy encounter with teamLab

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Dr Sarah Jilani
@sarahjilani
5 years
My article on subjectivity & neocolonialism, which focuses on Ghanaian writer Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born' (1968), is now out in @Routledge_JPW . One of several African or South Asian post-independence texts my thesis reconsiders.
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“The self and the world against which it had to live”: Neocolonialism and the resistant subject in...

Armah’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born has been read in terms of its political criticism of the native elite in Nkrumah’s post-independence Ghana, and for its treatment of individual conscious...

www.tandfonline.com
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Dr Sarah Jilani
@sarahjilani
2 years
Journalists: did you know that you can report on Ukraine without normalising the destruction of innocent lives in the Global South by suggesting such lives & places are where war usually happens – as though in 'such places', it's fate, rather than the powerful making a decision
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Dr Sarah Jilani
@sarahjilani
3 years
All these holiday sales will be the death of my makeshift bookshelf 😍 Can the world pause for a week so I can read in peace
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Dr Sarah Jilani
@sarahjilani
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Come work with our wonderfully diverse students in our friendly, interdisciplinary department! This is a 9 month, fixed term cover for me as I take a year's leave of absence. Application deadline 4 June ⬇️ #academicjobs
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Lecturer in English and Postcolonial Literature at City, University of London
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Dr Sarah Jilani
@sarahjilani
4 years
“I now have no right to challenge what has happened. It didn’t really feel like a choice. How am I supposed to carry on if I am homeless and jobless?”
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Dr Sarah Jilani
@sarahjilani
2 years
I drop these facts often in my UG teaching to emphasise how current the historical context to the literature we study is. The 'end' of slavery Britain so loves to claim: borrowing from its future citizens to enrich 6 generations descending from plantation owners and enslavers
@OzbatRisa
Marisa #UnionStrong🏴‍☠️✨
@OzbatRisa
2 years
So, instead of giving slave owners life in prison or the death penalty, they were COMPENSATED?? I honestly didn’t know that & that’s NOT ending slavery. The depth of the f*ckery is insane. #AbolishTheMonarchy 📌Article: 📌Full Vid:
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Dr Sarah Jilani
@sarahjilani
3 years
Addressing feedback from readers on a project; though it's all very fair & helpful, I can't help but wonder when this insistence on turning every engagement with scholarship into "an intervention" will end. Sometimes one should intervene: sometimes build, expand, nod to, query.
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Dr Sarah Jilani
@sarahjilani
1 year
Fantastic season celebrating the incomparable 🎥 Ousmane Sembène @BFI Southbank announced for August – don't miss it! Screenings include Mandabi, the first feature Sembène was able to make in Wolof, which I talk about here on @BBCRadio3 ⤵️
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BBC Radio 4 - Arts & Ideas, New Generation Thinkers: African cinema, nationhood, and liberation

Sarah Jilani on the lessons about power in films by Ousmane Sembene and Souleymane Cissé

www.bbc.co.uk
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Dr Sarah Jilani
@sarahjilani
6 years
Tasters from @aaprocter ’s “Uncomfortable Art Tour” of @Tate Britain today 🙌🏼 Recommend to all, but esp if interested in British history & art history - which too often bypass Empire & colonialism or treat it as past #arthistory #decolonize
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Dr Sarah Jilani
@sarahjilani
2 years
Had a blast writing & recording my @BBCRadio3 Essay on African cinema, nationhood & liberation! Diving into a film each by Ousmane Sembène & Souleymane Cissé to ask questions on power, justice, & decolonisation. Special thanks to producer @torqmac ! 🎧➡️
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BBC Radio 3 - The Essay, New Generation Thinkers 2021, African cinema, nationhood, and liberation

Sarah Jilani on the lessons about power in films by Ousmane Sembene and Souleymane Cissé.

www.bbc.co.uk
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Dr Sarah Jilani
@sarahjilani
1 month
I know people organise book launches during their publication month but can I advocate for the book-collapse? Where you deposit yourself by a body of water and collapse for a week
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Dr Sarah Jilani
@sarahjilani
3 years
Excited to be on @BBCFreeThinking @BBCRadio3 tonight, talking about Satyajit Ray's iconic 1958 film, Jalsaghar (The Music Room)! It'll be part of a wider, fascinating conversation that includes @JessGreengrass discussing her new book. At 10pm! 🎙⬇️
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BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Bombing and morals, Flooding and the future

Malcolm Gladwell, Satyajit Ray's film Jalsaghar and Jessie Greengrass. Rana Mitter hosts.

www.bbc.co.uk
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Dr Sarah Jilani
@sarahjilani
5 years
This. The amount of times I'm asked why "I don't study the Ottoman Empire too." Even followed up once with a "They [conquered/oppressed] as much." Oh sorry, didn't know my birthplace determined what should interest me. Or that scholarship equals compare-the-genocidal-empires
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Dr Sarah Jilani
@sarahjilani
3 years
After a pandemic spent with wall-to-wall carpeting & the indoor lack of full daylight, I am constantly getting distracted from this review essay to gaze blankly & with a slack jaw at this much appreciated, if temporary, scene 🙏🏼
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Dr Sarah Jilani
@sarahjilani
2 years
Such a moment of dissonance & melancholy to see photos like these; my mind's eye immediately juxtaposes them with a memory of standing in the same place & looking exactly in the same direction. Those signs in French, Ottoman Turkish, Greek & Armenian especially seem another world
@CNybak
Letter from Turkey
@CNybak
2 years
Yüksek Kaldırım, connecting Pera and Galata Port, Istanbul, c 1910 These stairs were remoıved in 1956 to make a slope for car traffic. This, to me, is a perfect example of how Istanbul has thrown away its history- the essential parts of its soul -over the last 70 years.
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Dr Sarah Jilani
@sarahjilani
7 years
Spot on piece by @renireni - coded as absence, whiteness is evasive: it centres itself by manifesting as a lack of being raced, & all the privilege that entails. Harder to call out its insularity, its assumption that its experience is the norm
@lithub
Literary Hub
@lithub
7 years
Reni Eddo-Lodge on why insidious racism is much harder to name and navigate.
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Dr Sarah Jilani
@sarahjilani
5 years
Last night’s #ACLA2019 keynote lecture was from @GhoshAmitav , titled “Speaking of Babel: The Risks and Rewards of Writing About Polyglot Societies” #literature #AcademicTwitter
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Dr Sarah Jilani
@sarahjilani
2 years
Had a short Croatian break so I could restore the energy I need to face another year of the scam that is living in the UK at twice the cost 👍🏼
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Dr Sarah Jilani
@sarahjilani
3 years
This is a very misleading headline that perpetuates Leicester Uni's own damaging & incorrect application of "decolonisation" as a process & project. The process of decolonising curricula is not about axing Medieval & Early Modern literatures.... [thread]
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Dr Sarah Jilani
@sarahjilani
6 months
"Little surprise, perhaps, that Western universities can proudly endorse the rhetoric of decolonization while suppressing Palestinian anticolonial protest and maintaining ties with Israeli settler-colonialism in the face of its genocidal assault"
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Walter Rodney's Radical Legacy - Boston Review

On the Guyanese revolutionary’s writings on anticolonial struggle.

www.bostonreview.net
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Dr Sarah Jilani
@sarahjilani
8 months
Signed some papers & felt all the love with our chosen family this weekend 🧿🤍
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Dr Sarah Jilani
@sarahjilani
2 years
End of my first year of teaching @CityUniEnglish ! Knackered, but a much better human all around from the experience. Putting this thoughtful gift from a student on my desk to remind me I lost my voice every Thursday this term for a great reason
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Dr Sarah Jilani
@sarahjilani
6 years
Happy birthday to #FrantzFanon (1925 - 1961), who would have been 93 today. Opened my eyes as he did many others' - I can never tire of reading his work. Who knows what else he would have contributed had he lived longer #BornOnThisDay
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Dr Sarah Jilani
@sarahjilani
8 years
Today in #belatedviewing , #CafeSociety - I see what the reviews mean about #KristenStewart . Different side to her, good performance
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Dr Sarah Jilani
@sarahjilani
3 years
A must-listen @BBCFreeThinking episode & a great line-up of speakers delving into Black Skin White Masks and Wretched of the Earth 🙌🏼
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Free Thinking - Frantz Fanon - BBC Sounds

Re-reading the major 20th century theorist of decolonisation

www.bbc.co.uk
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Dr Sarah Jilani
@sarahjilani
4 years
Thoughts with the people of Izmir 🇹🇷 and Samos 🇬🇷. I still remember the terrifying experience of the 1999 Western Turkey earthquake of 7.6 magnitude. Dayan güzel Egem 💙
@cnnturk
CNN TÜRK
@cnnturk
4 years
İzmir'de yaşanan depremin ardından bir binanın yıkıldığı anlar cep telefonu kamerasına yansıdı. CNN TÜRK canlı yayınına bağlanan bina sakini Zeki Soysal, yıkılma anında yaşananları anlattı
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Dr Sarah Jilani
@sarahjilani
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Repatriation of objects of ancestral value & human remains is not only necessary & just, but more easily done than the naysayers try to make it out to be. Indigenous bodies like @AIATSIS seek to initiate & receive, if UK museums are ready to change.
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Dr Sarah Jilani
@sarahjilani
4 years
"The world today looks as it does – white countries rich, Africa poor, & a hierarchy in between – because this world was built on colonialism & slavery. You don't have your phones, clothes without the exploitation of black & brown life." @kehinde_andrews
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Revisited: Britain's reckoning with its racist past – podcast

UK Black Lives Matter protests have taken place across the country. They have not just been about solidarity with the US or racism in Britain today

www.theguardian.com
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Dr Sarah Jilani
@sarahjilani
3 years
@HKesvani Being the author of "The New Snobbery" doesn't sound like the material injustices experienced by working people is high on your list of things that make you angry, though
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Dr Sarah Jilani
@sarahjilani
3 years
What a devastating loss. Just yesterday in class my MA students and I had a wonderful discussion that referenced 'Feminism Is For Everybody' (2000). #RestInPower , bell hooks. Thank you.
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