Reposted by Sarah Gharib SeifJasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · 04/03/2026"The absence of justification is not incidental. It is a morbid symptom of an intl system in crisis. The certainties of the US’ hegemonic stewardship of the intl rules-based order have been deformed beyond recognition by the Gaza genocide, but no alternative architecture has cohered in their place" 0145
Reposted by Sarah Gharib SeifJasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Girls' school reported to be among first targets of US-Israel strikes on Iran, killing over 50 people. There is no basis for "preventative strikes" in International law; this is, yet again, entirely illegal from the US & Israel. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/...aljazeera.comIsrael strikes two schools in Iran, killing more than 50 peopleState media says Israeli attack on girls' school in the city of Minab in the south of the country kills dozens. 03717
Sarah Gharib Seif @sarahgharib.bsky.social · 25/02/2026We’re hiring a postdoc at @schoolforgovt.bsky.social to join our RESPOND team! The role is for someone to contribute to research and engagement related to media capture practices and regulations in digital societies at both UK and EU levels. Deadline is 22nd March - www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/139445-...kcl.ac.ukResearch Associate | King's College London 100
Reposted by Sarah Gharib SeifSara Salem @sarasalem.bsky.social · 20/02/2026Archive Stories has a new series on archiving and remembering the Tricontinental and Third Worldism, out now! archive-stories.com/Archiving-th...archive-stories.comArchiving the Tricontinental — archive stories︎︎︎ All ︎︎︎ Launching Archive Stories ︎︎︎ Archiving Palestine ︎︎︎ Archiving the... 11916
Reposted by Sarah Gharib SeifJasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · 10/02/2026My new article "Kant as Methodology: Race, White Ignorance, and Intellectual Responsibility" is now out in Critical Philosophy of Race (Penn State University Press). Open Access copy here: jasminekgani.wordpress.com/wp-content/u... (summary of core arguments in thread below) @lseir.bsky.social 15020
Sarah Gharib Seif @sarahgharib.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Our CPD paper prize is open - until 31 December! 032
Reposted by Sarah Gharib SeifBISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 19/11/2025🏆Our BISA Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial WG Prize for Early Career Scholars is open again! 🏆 Supporting CPD’s early-career members in the development of peer-reviewed work 🌟 Deadline: 31 December Read more here 👉 ow.ly/UPL650XtT4j niharika pandit Sarah Gharib Seif 022
Reposted by Sarah Gharib SeifDr Jo Edge 🏴 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 26/10/2025Remember guys, @pcsunion.bsky.social staff at the BL are on strike for the next two weeks. Please don't cross the picket line to go to reading rooms, attend exhibitions or anything else. They've endured so much on low pay since the cyberattack in 2023 and the least we can do is have their backs now. 0171109
Reposted by Sarah Gharib SeifBISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 29/10/2025🚨 Call for papers 🚨 Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial 12th annual workshop - a one-day in-person event focussing on the ethical commitments of academic research, scholarship and teaching 🎉 Send in your papers now 👉 ow.ly/nUy250XjIZw niharika pandit Sarah Gharib Seifow.lyCall for papers: Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial 12th annual workshop- Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial (CPD) | BISA- Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial (CPD) Working Group 088
Reposted by Sarah Gharib SeifRaquel da Silva @raquelbdasilva.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Putting together a panel for #BISA2026 on grassroots resistance. If you have a paper, get in touch! I'm keen to bring together diverse perspectives and approaches. 📧 DM if you're interested ⏰ Deadline: October 30th @mybisa.bsky.social 035
Reposted by Sarah Gharib SeifSarah Gharib Seif @sarahgharib.bsky.social · 27/10/2025Our @mybisa.bsky.social CPD annual workshop will be happening on 1 December, on Recalibrating our ethical compass: academia in times of crisis. You can find the full CfP below and attached – the deadline for expressions of interest is 5 November 2025! @niharikaan.bsky.social 045
Sarah Gharib Seif @sarahgharib.bsky.social · 27/10/2025Our @mybisa.bsky.social CPD annual workshop will be happening on 1 December, on Recalibrating our ethical compass: academia in times of crisis. You can find the full CfP below and attached – the deadline for expressions of interest is 5 November 2025! @niharikaan.bsky.social 045
Sarah Gharib Seif @sarahgharib.bsky.social · 22/10/2025Just a reminder that we are still looking for abstracts for this panel! 021
Reposted by Sarah Gharib SeifEnvironment and Climate Politics Working Group @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social · 20/10/2025If you're submitting an abstract for this, please do so by Friday. That gives us time before the BISA deadline to read through the papers and then let everyone know so that you can submit your abstract as a single paper if you'd like to. 058
Reposted by Sarah Gharib SeifEnvironment and Climate Politics Working Group @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Call for Papers for #BISA2026! Exploring the relationship between imperialism, coloniality and environmental degradation. This is a joint call with Colonial, Postcolonial & Decolonial WG, recognising that important work is being done at the intersection of our groups. Deadline Friday 24 October. 268
Reposted by Sarah Gharib SeifJasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · 08/10/2025"Race Reports: How universities 'reckon' with their imperial past, and how their investment portfolios say otherwise." www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/... Excellent - by @rahulraothariel.bsky.social 0228
Reposted by Sarah Gharib SeifAnna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 17/07/2025Rümeysa is one of the kindest, most compassionate people I have ever met. Many of you came to know her first and foremost as an ICE abductee, seized by a state that wanted to strip her of her humanity. I would like for you to know her in her own words, which are resoundingly human.vanityfair.com“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s PrisonTufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met. 141029505
Reposted by Sarah Gharib SeifNathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 19/07/2025Meanwhile, and this is truly beyond belief, the solution to famine in Gaza is RIGHT THERE. Which is what makes this starvation a deliberate and genocidal act. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo... 10506245
Reposted by Sarah Gharib Seifhannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 19/07/2025Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...telegraph.co.ukI should be at Cambridge, but I’m trapped in GazaHome Office red tape strands dozens of Palestinian scholarship winners in war zone 5385345
Reposted by Sarah Gharib SeifJasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Honoured to be giving the keynote speech tomorrow (25 Apr) at the inaugural Decolonial Methodologies conference at St Andrews. I'll be speaking about our intellectual and ethical responsibilities as scholars under the shadow of fascism and genocide @standrewsir.bsky.social @lseir.bsky.social 24010
Reposted by Sarah Gharib SeifRhiannon @aywarhiannon.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Are you listening to Popular Cradle? New episode about the logistics giant Maersk, which has shipped millions of pounds of military cargo to israel over the course of the genocide. open.spotify.com/episode/3rIR...open.spotify.comMask Off Maersk: The Logistics Corporation Facilitating GenocidePopular Cradle · Episode 1639
Reposted by Sarah Gharib Seifniharika pandit @niharikaan.bsky.social · 21/02/2025my new article that analyses the colonial logics and underpinnings of militarisation, and builds a critique of liberal feminist IR analyses and research agendas is now out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... the article also lays the conceptual framework of my forthcoming book.tandfonline.comA feminist analysis of the coloniality of militarization: thinking with Kashmir at the margins of the Global SouthThis article was named the winner of the 2023 Enloe Award. The committee commented: This highly original piece advances underexplored sites for decolonial theorization while embedding evocative met... 0287
Reposted by Sarah Gharib SeifBDS in International Studies @bdsatisa.bsky.social · 25/02/2025International Studies people, please sign & share this open letter in support of our colleague: docs.google.com/forms/d/1P3U...docs.google.comOpen Letter to the International Studies Association on the targeting and harassment of our colleague Dr Catherine Charrett*** We invite scholars to sign this Open Letter *** Dear colleagues, We write as scholars working on gender, feminist and queer international relations, racism and (settler) colonialism, issues pertai... 01714
Reposted by Sarah Gharib SeifBDS in International Studies @bdsatisa.bsky.social · 23/02/2025What's happening at the International Studies Association (ISA)? A whole catalogue of censorship & punitive actions against sections & caucuses by the ISA leadership is silencing democratic discussion, especially among Global South & marginalised members.. medium.com/@bdsatisa/ce...medium.comCensorship & Antidemocratic Governance at the ISAThe International Studies Association (ISA) claims to be “an organization that is governed by and answerable to its membership.” However… 02015
Reposted by Sarah Gharib SeifSt Andrews IPT Conference @standrewsipt.bsky.social · 19/02/2025CALL FOR PAPERS (In)Justice and The Global 22nd-23rd May 2025 The 13th Graduate Conference in International Political Theory at St. Andrews. @uniofstandrews.bsky.social Keynote Speakers: David Owen @artsofdenial.bsky.social Lisa Tilley @tilley101.bsky.social Jason Ralph @jasonralph.bsky.social 076
Sarah Gharib Seif @sarahgharib.bsky.social · 07/12/2024I passed my viva earlier this week! Thank you to Prof Gurch Sanghera and to Prof Richard Jackson for the generous engagement & a stimulating viva experience! I’m so grateful to @jasminekgani.bsky.social & @rkrystalli.bsky.social for being the best supervisory team - and to everyone at St Andrews IR! 8653
Reposted by Sarah Gharib SeifBISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 05/12/2024This evening we have the CPDWG roundtable on anti-imperial feminist architectures of resistance with Dilar Dirik and Afaf Jabiri #bisacpd24 @niharikaan.bsky.social @sarahgharib.bsky.social 0113
Reposted by Sarah Gharib SeifBISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 05/12/2024The afternoon session at #bisacpd24 is on ‘how would you teach Palestine?’ led by charity Makan. Currently we are discussing gaps in education on Palestine. @sarahgharib.bsky.social @niharikaan.bsky.social 042
Reposted by Sarah Gharib SeifBISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Session 2 has begun at #bisacpd24 and is chaired by the wonderfully passionate @jasminekgani.bsky.social We’re discussing the imaginaries of the anti colonial and the anti imperial. @uniwestminster.bsky.social @stoffelalex.bsky.social 0111
Reposted by Sarah Gharib SeifBISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 05/12/2024After small group discussions some common themes were: -body as an archive of pain -silencing by institutions -definitions of feminism and its relationship to facism #bisacpd24 @niharikaan.bsky.social 021
Reposted by Sarah Gharib SeifBISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Session 1 is on the tools that anti-imperial feminist, queer/trans and anti-racist thinking offer us to make sense of the present global moment. There are several 5-min provocations before a group discussion #bisacpd24 121
Reposted by Sarah Gharib SeifBISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 05/12/2024What a room of fantastic scholars. Introductions done so we’ll soon be moving on to the first session chaired by @niharikaan.bsky.social #bisacpd24 111
Reposted by Sarah Gharib SeifBISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Is live Bluesky a thing? It is now! We’ll be bringing you updates from today’s Colonial Postcolonial Decolonial WG events in London all day today! Starting now with intros from conveners Sarah, @niharikaan.bsky.social and Catherine #bisacpd24 @uniwestminster.bsky.social 1195
Reposted by Sarah Gharib SeifAndy Hom @therealisthom.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Why enter @mybisa.bsky.social CPD ECR paper prize? 1. A great group of supportive scholars 2: Winners receive pre-submission mentorship @risjnl.bsky.social Here's what 2023 winner Christopher Choong Weng Wai had to say about it, with former EIC Martin Coward www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4zw...youtube.comThe BISA Colonial Postcolonial Decolonial Working Group Early Career Researcher Paper PrizeYouTube video by MyBISA 0137
Reposted by Sarah Gharib SeifReview of International Studies @risjnl.bsky.social · 26/11/2024There is still time to submit for the @mybisa.bsky.social CPD Paper Prize for ECRs! Check out this interview with/ the '23 winner & be sure to read now published his article. Interview ➡️ buff.ly/3YYNAvP Paper ➡️ buff.ly/4hoSTNk Apply ➡️ buff.ly/4fqsfSsbuff.lyCPD Paper Prize Winner 2023: Racial/Gender Capitalism in Malaysia: Contested Scripts, Muted RepertoiresA video interview with the winner of the CPD Paper Prize for 2023, by Martin Coward. 042
Reposted by Sarah Gharib SeifRoxani Krystalli @rkrystalli.bsky.social · 19/11/2024London friends! I'm giving two talks about my book, Good Victims: The Political as a Feminist Question, next week. Both are free and it would be lovely to see you! Wed, Nov 27, 5 PM, Queen Mary: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/from-victi... Thur, Nov 28, 5:30 PM, UCL: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/good-victi...eventbrite.co.uk"Good Victims." Book Talk with Roxani KrystalliJoin us for a lively book talk with Roxani Krystalli where we'll explore the concept of "good victims" and her new book. 0153
Reposted by Sarah Gharib SeifSarah Gharib Seif @sarahgharib.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Join us for the public roundtable on 'Anti-imperial Feminist Architectures of Resistance' with Dr Afaf Jabiri and Dr Dilar Dirik, as part of @mybisa.bsky.social CPD's 11th annual workshop. 5 December 2024 5.30PM-7PM University of Westminster, London, UK Register here: t.co/44msBmKr27 23314
Sarah Gharib Seif @sarahgharib.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Join us for the public roundtable on 'Anti-imperial Feminist Architectures of Resistance' with Dr Afaf Jabiri and Dr Dilar Dirik, as part of @mybisa.bsky.social CPD's 11th annual workshop. 5 December 2024 5.30PM-7PM University of Westminster, London, UK Register here: t.co/44msBmKr27 23314
Reposted by Sarah Gharib SeifReview of International Studies @risjnl.bsky.social · 19/11/2024🚨 Deadline Extended!!🚨 There is still time to apply for the RIS and Bisa CPD Paper Prize for early career researchers!! Please consider applying to this fantastic opportunity. ⏱️ NEW Deadline 7 December 📄 Apply here 👉 buff.ly/4fqsfSs @mybisa.bsky.social 01314
Reposted by Sarah Gharib SeifJasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Graduate students & ECRs writing on (anti)colonialism, race, indingenaiety, racial capitalism: do consider submitting your work for the CPD (colonial-postcolonial-decolonial) paper prize 👇 14225
Reposted by Sarah Gharib SeifAnna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 21/11/2024It's critical to read about this & oppose it. The "terrorism" label is a political weapon for oppressing Palestinians, Muslims, and/or people of color. That's what it was designed for within US legal regimes. There is no way to reform or expand the label that undoes its fundamental colonial nature. 12713
Reposted by Sarah Gharib SeifAya Nassar @ayanassar.bsky.social · 15/11/2024 Proud to be part of team who has been working on this: “Palestine: Spaces and Politics”. An introductory curriculum to Palestine in context, using a spatial lens. Most resources are open access, prioritizing Palestinian authors. #menasky, #geosky palestine.araburbanism.compalestine.araburbanism.comPalestine: Spaces and PoliticsIntroductory Curriculum 1015579
Reposted by Sarah Gharib SeifDr Amal Abu-Bakare @nawalabu72.bsky.social · 16/11/2024If you care about abolishing and critiquing idea of the war on terror as a political project , you should give my colleague @rmkhan.bsky.social a hearty follow. She and @sarahgharib.bsky.social just published an amazing special issue, me and several others are part of : doi.org/10.1080/1753...doi.orgEditors’ Introduction: Decoloniality, criticality, and abolition - can Critical Terrorism Studies remain “critical”?Published in Critical Studies on Terrorism (Ahead of Print, 2024) 06620
Reposted by Sarah Gharib SeifJasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Starter Pack on Colonialism, Decolonisation & Race 👇. Interdisciplinary and not limited to academics. Set it up last week so I may have missed people who joined recently - pls let me know if you'd like to be added (or removed). ..Overlapping starter packs v.welcome! go.bsky.app/NypyY8Q 3363557750
Reposted by Sarah Gharib SeifJasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · 14/11/2024"The past year has demonstrated a consensus across the US political spectrum around the notion that Palestinians are dispensable. Their disagreement is whether it should be a slow, innocuous demise or a rapid one." jasminekgani.wordpress.com/2024/11/07/u....jasminekgani.wordpress.comUS Elections in the Shadow of Genocide: Democrat Hubris and Voter DisillusionmentTrump has been declared the winner of the US presidential election, consigning Biden-Harris to a one-term presidency and a career-defining legacy of bankrolling the genocide in Gaza. The writing wa… 43712
Reposted by Sarah Gharib SeifAnna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 27/02/2024⭐New article⭐ Two parts Charles Mills adaptation, one part abolition, one part rage: “Whiteness as Expertise in Studies of the Far Right.” (It's open access!) I ask: what explains backlash to taking white supremacist violence seriously? 1/tandfonline.comWhiteness as expertise in studies of the far rightThis article addresses backlash from white academic gatekeepers to research on the white far right and white supremacist violence. Centrally, I interrogate how whiteness shapes the field’s response... 73919
Sarah Gharib Seif @sarahgharib.bsky.social · 27/02/2024Very pleased that the first article from my & @rmkhan.bsky.social special issue for CSoT on Abolition, Decoloniality, & Criticality is out! In it, @annameier.bsky.social asks what backlash against taking white supremacist violence seriously tells us about whiteness in the field of ‘terrorism’.tandfonline.comWhiteness as expertise in studies of the far rightThis article addresses backlash from white academic gatekeepers to research on the white far right and white supremacist violence. Centrally, I interrogate how whiteness shapes the field’s response... 1117
Reposted by Sarah Gharib SeifRyan Swan ريان سوان @ryanswan.bsky.social · 27/02/2024I'm looking for research participants! Please pass on if you can 🙂 @jasminekgani.bsky.social @fmccallumguiney.bsky.social 013
Reposted by Sarah Gharib SeifNate O @nateo.bsky.social · 31/01/2024A pediatrician’s two weeks inside a hospital in Gaza www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a... 61006556