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Asma Abdi 🍉

@drasmaabdi.bsky.social
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ESRC postdoctoral fellow @the University of Exeter |Writing on Political Economy of Gender, Race, Social Reproduction, Sanctions, War| The Middle East, Iran

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Columba Achilleos @columbaachilleos.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
🚨🎉 Briefly interrupting mat leave to share the publication of our edited book on Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP), co-edited with @tonihaastrup.bsky.social & @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social ⬇️ bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/feminist-for... 📖 The book is available open access #FeministForeignPolicy
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Feminist Foreign Policy
Feminist Foreign Policy - Energy and Resistance; Since Sweden launched the world’s first Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP), the concept has become ubiquitous in foreign policy studies and practice. This b...
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Asma Abdi 🍉 @drasmaabdi.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Please consider submitting a paper for the annual IPEG-BISA workshop this year hosted in Manchester.
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Asma Abdi 🍉 @drasmaabdi.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
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Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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Asma Abdi 🍉 @drasmaabdi.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
A piece that I wrote recently reflecting on Tehran's urbicide by the US-Israel bombs. In it, I read the bombed streets of Tehran through their revolutionary histories and ask what is erased when such archives of defiance are bombed... kohljournal.press/tehran-archi...
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On Urbicide and Bombs that Fail: Reading Tehran as an Archive of Defiance
Over the past week,This piece was written in the immediate aftermath of the outbreak of the 40-day war on Iran, launched by the United States and Israel on 28 February 2026. As such, the emotions it c...
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LSE Middle East Centre @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Missed our event on Sovereignty in #Iran: Challenges to Eurocentrism from Ancient Iran to the Islamic Republic with @shabnamholliday.bsky.social, @edwardwastnidge.bsky.social & @drasmaabdi.bsky.social? 🎧 Listen back to the recording here: soundcloud.com/lsemiddleeas...
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Scott James @drscottjames.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Highly recommended on Labour’s macroprudential dilemma, from Nick Kotucha
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Back to the Future: Labour and the Politics of Financial Deregulation
One of the professed aims of the current Labour government in the UK is to boost GDP by ‘cutting red tape’. This also applies to the financial sector, where in recent months regulators have been aske...
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Asma Abdi 🍉 @drasmaabdi.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
So honoured and overjoyed to receive the Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize for the best PhD thesis on the Middle East for my PhD thesis, "Towards a Feminist International Political Economy of Sanctions: Social Reproduction, Labour and Survival in Iran" at the @brismes.bsky.social BRISMES conference!
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Asma Abdi 🍉 @drasmaabdi.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
I won a prize this week in the PSA conference 😍 Feeling so honoured to be awarded the @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social Political science Association (PSA) Elizabeth Wiskemann Prize for the best PhD dissertation in the field of (in)equality and social justice!! @hass-cornwall.bsky.social
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luisalupo.bsky.social @luisalupo.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
🌟New Publication! Raksha Gopal and I examine how Rohingya and Syrian refugees negotiate survival amid multiple forms of violence in India and Turkey. We introduce a new concept—the (in)securitization of social reproductive capacities—drawing on our PhDs @gvagrad.bsky.social. 📖Displaced Lives⤵️
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Displaced lives: rethinking survival, social reproduction, and (in)security with refugees
In this article, we examine the practices of survival that Rohingya and Syrian refugees perform as they confront multiple forms of violence resulting from their forced displacement in India and Tur...
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Asma Abdi 🍉 @drasmaabdi.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Pleased to share my paper, “A Feminist International Political Economy of Sanctions: Crises and the Shifting Gendered Regimes of Labour and Survival in Iran", published in the International Feminist Journal of Politics. The paper is open access and available here 👇
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A feminist international political economy of sanctions: crises and the shifting gendered regimes of labor and survival in Iran: International Feminist Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No 0
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Abdalhadi Alijla @abdalhadi.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
In the last 24 hours, four babies have died from the freezing cold in Gaza. This harsh period, known locally as "Arabiniya," brings 40 days of relentless cold. As you sit in warmth, take a moment to think of others enduring unimaginable suffering and remember: Israel is a genocidal state.
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Columba Achilleos @columbaachilleos.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
If you are working in UK HE, consider donating to Brismes - the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, fundraiser to support Gazan universities & students: gofundme.com/f/the-brisme...
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Donate to The BRISMES Fund for Higher Education in Gaza, organized by British Society for Middle Eastern Studies
Founded in 1973, the British Society for Middle Eastern Studi… British Society for Middle Eastern Studies needs your support for The BRISMES Fund for Higher Education in Gaza
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Review of International Studies @risjnl.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
🎉 We're in the final stretch of celebrating 50 volumes! 🎉 Check out the 2019 most-cited article: "Feminist everyday political economy: Space, time, and violence" by Juanita Elias & Shirin M. Rai. 📄👉 buff.ly/3ZzQ2sV
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Juanita Elias @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
feminist/queer political economy starter pack is here - let me know who else I need to add
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Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Ethnic cleansing in Northern Gaza.
Ethnic cleansing in Northern Gaza. Israel is violently displacing thousands of people.
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Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
My first single-authored paper is out in @Peasant_Journal w/ #OpenAccess. It explores how land shapes women's agency across intersecting identities after the genocide in #Rwanda, and theorises the nexus between land dispossession and gendered violence👇https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2024.2407167
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Land dispossession as continuum of violence: women’s political agency in post-genocide Rwanda
The article investigates how gender and class shape women’s political empowerment in post-genocide Rwanda, where access to land creates gendered networks for women to exercise their political agenc...
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