New in @irrnews.bsky.social with Noaman Ali: "Done with decolonisation? The perils & possibilities of a concept"

 Decolonization has become everything—and therefore nothing. We advance a revolutionary approach against liberal, class-blind, reactionary uses.🧵1/ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Done with decolonisation? The perils and possibilities of a concept - Shozab Raza, Noaman G. Ali, 2026

Has decolonisation, as an analytical concept and political horizon, reached a dead-end? Some argue the term has been so overused – and misused – that it has los...

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@esmat.bsky.social on dreams of pan-Asian unity, from Palestine to India and beyond. www.jamhoor.org/read/asianis...

I wrote a piece a few years ago as a sort of primer that tries to historicize and contextualize the current counterrevolutionary war in Sudan. It’s basic and is meant to give folks who haven’t been following closely a sense of what and why it is happening.

Critical Times@criticaltimes1.bsky.social · 2mo ago

From our new issue: "Sudan's Counterrevolutionary War" by @nisrinelamin.bsky.social traces key elements of the political economy of Sudan's war and situates it within a longer history of state violence. Freely available here: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...

Today we are co-hosting an online event with @jamhoor.org. It’s about Umar Khalid, India’s most prominent political prisoner. Featuring Umar’s partner, researcher Banojyotsna Lahiri, and legal scholar @gautambhatia88.bsky.social Free tickets here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/umar-khali...

Umar Khalid and his World

Two comrades of Umar Khalid – one of India’s most prominent political prisoners – discuss a new book of writings by and about him.

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This Sunday, with @jamhoor.org, we're hosting an online event about Umar Khalid, India’s most prominent political prisoner Featuring his partner, researcher Banojyotsna Lahiri, and legal scholar @gautambhatia88.bsky.social Register for free here! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/umar-khali...

Umar Khalid and his World

Two comrades of Umar Khalid – one of India’s most prominent political prisoners – discuss a new book of writings by and about him.

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This Sunday, online. Cohosted by @equatormag.bsky.social & @jamhoor.org

Jamhoor@jamhoor.org · 2mo ago

With @equatormag.bsky.social, we're hosting an online event on Umar Khalid and His World, an anthology of writings by and about him. Featuring Khalid's partner, researcher Banojyotsna Lahiri, and legal scholar @gautambhatia88.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/umar-khali...

Lahore After Modernism by Chris Moffat is a pioneering study of architecture and the politics of construction, destruction and conservation in urban Pakistan. https://www.sup.org/books/asian-studies/lahore-after-modernism #ReadUP

My book on renovictions, co-authored with Philip Zigman, is now available for pre-order: btlbooks.com/book/renovic... The book looks at how and why landlords renovict tenants and how tenants have organized to fight back and keep their homes

In Sept 2020, historian and leftist activist Umar Khalid was jailed amid a wider crackdown on those defying Modi's India. He remains imprisoned. Join @jamhoor.org and @equatormag.bsky.social for this event, featuring Banojyotsna Lahiri and @gautambhatia88.bsky.social

Jamhoor@jamhoor.org · 2mo ago

With @equatormag.bsky.social, we're hosting an online event on Umar Khalid and His World, an anthology of writings by and about him. Featuring Khalid's partner, researcher Banojyotsna Lahiri, and legal scholar @gautambhatia88.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/umar-khali...

In Sept 2020, historian and leftist activist Umar Khalid was jailed amid a wider crackdown on those defying Modi's India. He remains imprisoned. Join @jamhoor.org and @equatormag.bsky.social for this event, featuring Banojyotsna Lahiri and @gautambhatia88.bsky.social

Jamhoor@jamhoor.org · 2mo ago

With @equatormag.bsky.social, we're hosting an online event on Umar Khalid and His World, an anthology of writings by and about him. Featuring Khalid's partner, researcher Banojyotsna Lahiri, and legal scholar @gautambhatia88.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/umar-khali...

on the militarized space & anti-Muslim violence of San Diego & the expansive militarism of the US war machine, a "geography of war making," says Dr. Esmat Elhalaby, who has lost over 2 dozen family members in Gaza, and now more loved ones in San Diego www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/san...

San Diego Über Alles — Parapraxis

Esmat Elhalaby

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Has "decolonization" reached its limits? After mapping the ways in which decolonization is emptied of its radical possibilities, our article of the week calls for a "worldly Marxism" to revitalize decolonization. By @shozabraza.bsky.social et al. in @irrnews.bsky.social buff.ly/36cveLq

Please sign to support colleagues and comrades fired from University of Essex Business School

Camila Vergara@camilavergara.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Financial crisis is being used to bypass tenure protections. University of Essex fired me & 11 others from the Business School in a clear targeting based on our philosophical orientation & social justice commitments. Please sign the public statement: sites.google.com/view/mmpubli...

New in @irrnews.bsky.social with Noaman Ali: "Done with decolonisation? The perils & possibilities of a concept"

 Decolonization has become everything—and therefore nothing. We advance a revolutionary approach against liberal, class-blind, reactionary uses.🧵1/ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Done with decolonisation? The perils and possibilities of a concept - Shozab Raza, Noaman G. Ali, 2026

Has decolonisation, as an analytical concept and political horizon, reached a dead-end? Some argue the term has been so overused – and misused – that it has los...

journals.sagepub.com

Project 2052 keeps expanding! We’re excited to share “A Day on the Bengal Delta, or, Coming Home” by @cannafis.bsky.social. The short story presents a brief history of post-revolution South Asia as told from the vantage points of four narrators, each with their own dreams, hopes, and demons.

Our final SJE colloquium @oiseuoft.bsky.social: @alansearslefty.bsky.social on his new book Eros and Alienation: Capitalism and the Making of Gendered Sexualities (@plutopress.bsky.social) Join us! www.oise.utoronto.ca/home/sje/abo...

Colloquium: Alan Sears on Eros and Alienation: Capitalism and the Making of Gendered Sexualities | Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

Sociologist Dr. Alan Sears presents a colloquium on his January 2025 book Eros and Alienation: Capitalism and the Making of Gendered Sexualities.

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china sajadian, debt and refuge: syrian farmworkers and the politics of displacement in lebanon www.sup.org/books/middle... hooray!

Debt and Refuge | Stanford University Press

Lebanon hosts the highest number of refugees per capita in the world, including up to 1.5 million displaced Syrians. Many are Syrian farmworkers, who for decades have sustained Lebanon's agricultural ...

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When they ask me after the talk where my ideas come from

Celebrate the latest issue of @jamhoor.org with Common Notions and @makingworlds.bsky.social! Sunday 3/29/26, 4-6pm Asian Arts Initiative 1219 Vine St, Philadephia, PA

@nisrinelamin.bsky.social will be speaking at @oiseuoft.bsky.social this Friday -- join us! www.oise.utoronto.ca/sje/newslett...

Colloquium: Nisrin Elamin on Land, Capital and Empire-Making in Central Sudan | Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

UofT Anthropology and African Studies' Dr. Nisrin Elamin presents on her research on land and empire in Sudan.

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"Historical materialist analysis and a steadfast commitment to the mass politics of socialism were and are, as Rodney puts it, 'an integral part—not a later stage—of the very process of decolonization itself.'” www.bostonreview.net/articles/wal...

Walter Rodney's Radical Legacy

On the Guyanese revolutionary’s writings on anticolonial struggle.

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Postdoc in Palestine Studies at the University of Toronto for next academic year. Applications are due April 6. Please share and apply.

"US imperialism and Zionist fascism have lit a fire and will watch everything burn." Aasim Sajjad Akhtar on the war on Iran—and the region. jamhoor.org/blog/iranwar

@bbfarhadi.bsky.social will be speaking at @oiseuoft.bsky.social tomorrow about her excellent new book. Join us! www.oise.utoronto.ca/sje/about/ev...

Colloquium: Beyhan Farhadi on Online Learning and the Politics of Access in Public Education | Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

LHAE's Dr. Beyhan Farhadi presents a colloquium on her Jan 2026 book Online Learning and the Politics of Access in Public Education.

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Authoritarianism is rising. War is raging. The planet is burning. South Asia is an epicenter—but mainstream media is failing us. Jamhoor offers what they won’t: critical insight, progressive internationalism, radical horizons Support a people's media. Support Jamhoor. patreon.com/cw/jamhoor

Congrats Paul! Look forward to teaching this.

Stanford University Press@stanfordpress.bsky.social · 6mo ago

"Historically informed, ethnographically robust, and gracefully written, Paul Kohlbry's Plots and Deeds is a must read for understanding the contradictions and potential futures of land justice in Palestine and beyond" —Beshara Doumani, Brown University Out now! https://ow.ly/YvoY50Y7USa

"[We] must view the architecture of repression at home as deeply entwined with the foundations of enduring occupation in Palestine." Asmer Safi on Pakistan joining the Board of Peace — and what it really means. www.jamhoor.org/blog/pakista...

This Wednesday @anotherstoryto.bsky.social! I'll be speaking about @jamhoor.org's special issue, alongside @esmat.bsky.social, who'll be discussing his awesome new book, and Aparna Sundar.

Jamhoor@jamhoor.org · 7mo ago

Toronto: join us @anotherstoryto.bsky.social for a joint launch of our special issue + @esmat.bsky.social's Parting Gifts of Empire ( @ucpress.bsky.social ) www.eventbrite.ca/e/double-lau...

Clearly, imperialism endures. Join us @anotherstoryto.bsky.social for a discussion of empire, decolonization, and anti-imperialist militancy at this double launch.

Jamhoor@jamhoor.org · 7mo ago

Toronto: join us @anotherstoryto.bsky.social for a joint launch of our special issue + @esmat.bsky.social's Parting Gifts of Empire ( @ucpress.bsky.social ) www.eventbrite.ca/e/double-lau...

Fresh new magazines — worth checking out — Long-Haul and Jamhoor 📖 📖