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Shozab Raza

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Socialist, anthropologist & prof. at UToronto | editor at jamhoor.org | shozabraza.com Forthcoming: Theory from the Trenches (dukeupress.edu/theory-from-the-tren…)

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wennergrenorg.bsky.social @wennergrenorg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Jamhoor @jamhoor.org · 21/09/2026
NEW RELEASE: Chandni Desai on student uprisings in the age of Hindutva www.jamhoor.org/read/hum-dek...
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Shozab Raza @shozabraza.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
📣 $500 Graduate Student Paper Prize in Marxist Anthropology — our inaugural prize is now open. Submissions due Nov 1: mag.americananthro.org/prize/ Brought to you by the newly formed Marxist Anthropology Group (MAG), an interest group within @americananthro.bsky.social
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PRIZE - Marxist Anthropology Group (MAG)
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS We invite submissions for our inaugural Graduate Student Paper Prize in Marxist Anthropology. The Prize honors excellence in graduate research in the field of Marxist anthropology...
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Shozab Raza @shozabraza.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Congrats China! A terrific book.
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Shozab Raza @shozabraza.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
📣 $500 Graduate Student Paper Prize in Marxist Anthropology — our inaugural prize is now open. Submissions due Nov 1: mag.americananthro.org/prize/ Brought to you by the newly formed Marxist Anthropology Group (MAG), an interest group within @americananthro.bsky.social
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PRIZE - Marxist Anthropology Group (MAG)
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS We invite submissions for our inaugural Graduate Student Paper Prize in Marxist Anthropology. The Prize honors excellence in graduate research in the field of Marxist anthropology...
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Shozab Raza @shozabraza.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
"the simultaneity developed by internationalist literature taught [Chinese children] that their present, mission, and future were tightly linked to those of the Palestinian children." How Maoist China taught its kids to be revolutionary internationalists: positionspolitics.org/fluttering-b...
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Fluttering Battle Banners: A Maoist Comic Book on Palestine - positions politics
Introduction:The Politics of Internationalist Children’s Literature in the Cultural Revolution By: Brian W. L. (a student)Edited by: Rebecca Karl Maoist China had a rich legacy of support for national...
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Jamhoor @jamhoor.org · 06/08/2026
NEW: Jamhoor editor Hashim bin Rashid interviews an activist from JAAC, kept anonymous for security reasons, about the protests and political repression in Pak-administered Kashmir. www.jamhoor.org/read/from-th...
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From the Other Side of the Line — Jamhoor
A Kashmiri activist from Pakistan-administered Kashmir on their struggle for self-determination.
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Shozab Raza @shozabraza.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
"One wrote happily to the new viceroy of India that he had ‘ultimate powers’ as ‘comprehensive as those of any head of a Province in India’. The boundary between what some historians have described as the ‘zone of law’ (Britain) and the ‘zone of violence’ (the empire) had collapsed."
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Shozab Raza @shozabraza.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
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/...
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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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Jamhoor @jamhoor.org · 27/06/2026
@esmat.bsky.social on dreams of pan-Asian unity, from Palestine to India and beyond. www.jamhoor.org/read/asianis...
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Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
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.
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Equator @equatormag.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
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...
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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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Equator @equatormag.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
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...
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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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Shozab Raza @shozabraza.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
This Sunday, online. Cohosted by @equatormag.bsky.social & @jamhoor.org
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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Lahore After Modernism by Chris Moffat is a pioneering study of architecture and the politics of construction, destruction and conservation in urban Pakistan. www.sup.org/books/asian-studies/lah… #ReadUP
Book cover of Lahore After Modernism:
Architecture and Its Histories in Pakistan by Chris Moffat
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Cole Webber @colewebber.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
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
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Shozab Raza @shozabraza.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
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
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Shozab Raza @shozabraza.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
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
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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
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...
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San Diego Über Alles — Parapraxis
Esmat Elhalaby
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The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
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
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Mikkel Flohr @mflohr.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Please sign to support colleagues and comrades fired from University of Essex Business School
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Shozab Raza @shozabraza.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Ultimately, decolonization for worldly Marxists is a metaphor—not because it's confined to discourse, but because it's commensurable with, and co-constitutive of, another horizon: socialism and communism. 11/11 Full piece (open access) here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Shozab Raza @shozabraza.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
This has stakes for today. From West African resistance to French neocolonialism, to Latin America, to Indigenous land defence—meaningful decolonization must escalate class struggle toward revolutionary rupture, or risk regression into neocolonial accommodation. 10/
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Shozab Raza @shozabraza.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
We draw on 1960s–70s experiments responding to the limits of formal decolonization and Eurocentric Marxisms—united by a reinventive Marxism inspired by Mao. Those include Pakistan's Mazdoor Kisan Party, Walter Rodney in Tanzania, and Guyana's Working Peoples' Alliance. 9/
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Shozab Raza @shozabraza.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Against these, we argue for worldly Marxism: a decolonization that confronts postcolonial imperialisms, wages national and international class struggle, sieves Indigenous knowledge for its egalitarian elements, and sees strategic value in national liberation. 8/
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Shozab Raza @shozabraza.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
IV. Communitarian: decolonization as a non-national political community decoupled from the state—the approach of Mahmood Mamdani. But this obscures how capital accumulation works through national forms and abandons the strategic value of anti-imperialist nationalisms. 7/
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Shozab Raza @shozabraza.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
III. Epistemic-cultural: decolonization as rejecting Western thought and valourizing Indigenous knowledge. Non-dialectical and anti-class, this approach best serves academic political correctness, but can be—and has been—hijacked by the chauvinistic Right (e.g., Hindutva). 6/
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Shozab Raza @shozabraza.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
II. Economistic: decolonization as #landback, sovereign resource control or industrialization. Without addressing class relations & the politics of distribution, this can underwrite "decolonial" exploitation. 5/
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Shozab Raza @shozabraza.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
I. Juridical: decolonization as political recognition or formal transfer of power—without transforming the political economy of subordination within an imperialist world system. A limit case: Oslo 1993—"self-determination" securing settler colonialism under a new name. 4/
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Shozab Raza @shozabraza.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
We map four dominant modalities of decolonization that, when pursued in isolation, blunt its revolutionary edge—and can even cover for reactionary agendas. Each fragments a comprehensive transformative project into a single, isolated dimension. 3/
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Shozab Raza @shozabraza.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Critics say "decolonization" is so overused it's lost meaning & should mostly be abandoned. But that forfeits a vital theoretical apparatus we can use to confront imperialism, settler colonialism, and colonial afterlives from Palestine to Pakistan, Turtle Island to Tanzania. 2/
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Shozab Raza @shozabraza.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
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/...
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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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Common Notions Press @commonnotions.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
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.
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Shozab Raza @shozabraza.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
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...
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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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basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
china sajadian, debt and refuge: syrian farmworkers and the politics of displacement in lebanon www.sup.org/books/middle... hooray!
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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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Geoff Aung @rgnhardliner.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
When they ask me after the talk where my ideas come from
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Common Notions Press @commonnotions.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
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
graphic promoting the release of jamhoor magazine's in one hand the gun on march 29 from 4-6 at the asian arts initiative in philadelphia
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Shozab Raza @shozabraza.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
@nisrinelamin.bsky.social will be speaking at @oiseuoft.bsky.social this Friday -- join us! www.oise.utoronto.ca/sje/newslett...
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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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Shozab Raza @shozabraza.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
"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...
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Walter Rodney's Radical Legacy
On the Guyanese revolutionary’s writings on anticolonial struggle.
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Esmat Elhalaby @esmat.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Postdoc in Palestine Studies at the University of Toronto for next academic year. Applications are due April 6. Please share and apply.
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Jamhoor @jamhoor.org · 02/03/2026
"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
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Shozab Raza @shozabraza.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
And you can get the book here: utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....
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Online Learning and the Politics of Access in Public Education - University of Toronto Press
Debunking misconceptions about online education and contesting the myth of a one-size-fits-all solution, Online Learning and the Politics of Access in Public Education explores the complex realities of e-learning.
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Shozab Raza @shozabraza.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
@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...
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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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Jamhoor @jamhoor.org · 15/02/2026
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
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Shozab Raza @shozabraza.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Congrats Paul! Look forward to teaching this.
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Jamhoor @jamhoor.org · 26/01/2026
"[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...
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Shozab Raza @shozabraza.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
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.
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Shozab Raza @shozabraza.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Clearly, imperialism endures. Join us @anotherstoryto.bsky.social for a discussion of empire, decolonization, and anti-imperialist militancy at this double launch.
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Tej Nagaraja @tejnagaraja.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Fresh new magazines — worth checking out — Long-Haul and Jamhoor 📖 📖
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Jamhoor @jamhoor.org · 19/12/2025
Launching our first print issue! jamhoor.org/ix-in-one-ha... Purchase a copy @commonnotions.bsky.social: commonnotions.org/buy/in-one-h...
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