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“Survival in an Age of Revolution”: Charles Malik, Philo-Colonialism, and Global Counterrevolution (2025)
Journal Article
George, N. (2025). “Survival in an Age of Revolution”: Charles Malik, Philo-Colonialism, and Global Counterrevolution. American Historical Review, 130(2), 600-637. https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhaf007

While great effort has been invested in analyzing the role of revolutionary intellectuals in history, much less attention has been paid to the counterrevolution and its guides. This is especially the case in the former colonial world in the era of de... Read More about “Survival in an Age of Revolution”: Charles Malik, Philo-Colonialism, and Global Counterrevolution.

Being Cared for in the Context of Crisis: Austerity, COVID-19, and Racialized Politics (2022)
Journal Article
Akhter, S., Elias, J., & Rai, S. M. (2022). Being Cared for in the Context of Crisis: Austerity, COVID-19, and Racialized Politics. Social Politics, 29(4), 1121-1143. https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxac035

This article presents an investigation into the racialized and gendered dynamics of the intensifying crisis in care for older people in the United Kingdom. Deploying a feminist political economy framework, we reveal how the care crisis is an intersec... Read More about Being Cared for in the Context of Crisis: Austerity, COVID-19, and Racialized Politics.

Time, modernity and space: Montesquieu’s and Constant’s ancient/modern binaries (2022)
Journal Article
Ramgotra, M. (2022). Time, modernity and space: Montesquieu’s and Constant’s ancient/modern binaries. History of European Ideas, 48(3), 263-279. https://doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2022.2056335

This article explores how our thinking about time shapes epistemological and ontological understandings of the world. It considers the idea of modernity as constituted by the ancient/modern binary through an examination of Montesquieu’s and Benjamin... Read More about Time, modernity and space: Montesquieu’s and Constant’s ancient/modern binaries.

In Defence of an Unalienated Politic: A Critical Appraisal of the Birmingham LGBT Lessons Protests (2021)
Journal Article
Khan, A. (2021). In Defence of an Unalienated Politic: A Critical Appraisal of the Birmingham LGBT Lessons Protests. Feminist Review, 128(1), 132-147. https://doi.org/10.1177/01417789211013777

The trope of the repressive Muslim, obstinately attached to their regressive world views, recalcitrant antagoniser of modernity, has become a thoroughly familiar drama. Redundant spectacles abound: events often highly mediatised, substantiated by con... Read More about In Defence of an Unalienated Politic: A Critical Appraisal of the Birmingham LGBT Lessons Protests.

Travelling Theorist: Mehdi Ben Barka and Morocco from Anti-Colonial Nationalism to the Tricontinental (2020)
Book Chapter
George, N. (2020). Travelling Theorist: Mehdi Ben Barka and Morocco from Anti-Colonial Nationalism to the Tricontinental. In L. Guirguis (Ed.), The Arab Lefts: Histories and Legacies, 1950s–1970s (127-147). Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474454261-011

It is hard to imagine language more alarming to European and American imperialists and their allies than the terms Mehdi Ben Barka used to describe the conference he was organising. In May 1965, the Afro-Asian People‘s Solidarity Organisation elected... Read More about Travelling Theorist: Mehdi Ben Barka and Morocco from Anti-Colonial Nationalism to the Tricontinental.

The Migration State in the Global South: Nationalizing, Developmental and Neoliberal Models of Migration Management (2019)
Journal Article
Adamson, F., & Tsourapas, G. (2020). The Migration State in the Global South: Nationalizing, Developmental and Neoliberal Models of Migration Management. International Migration Review, 54(3), 853-882. https://doi.org/10.1177/0197918319879057

How do states in the Global South manage cross-border migration? This article identifies Hollifield’s “migration state” as a useful tool for comparative analysis yet notes that in its current version the concept is limited, given its focus on economi... Read More about The Migration State in the Global South: Nationalizing, Developmental and Neoliberal Models of Migration Management.

Layered Rhetorics and Multiple Realities: China and Africa (2019)
Book Chapter
Strauss, J. (2019). Layered Rhetorics and Multiple Realities: China and Africa. In C. Hartmann, & N. Noesselt (Eds.), China's New Role in African Politics: From Non-intervention towards Stabilization. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429422393-3

This chapter reflects on the ways in which China’s official rhetoric on its approach towards and activities in Africa have developed since the mid-1950s. It suggests that there are three different ‘layers’ to this rhetoric that broadly reflect three... Read More about Layered Rhetorics and Multiple Realities: China and Africa.

From ‘Imam ul-Hind’ to Azizul Hind: The ‘One Man Media House’ in Modern India (2019)
Journal Article
Dhital, P. (2019). From ‘Imam ul-Hind’ to Azizul Hind: The ‘One Man Media House’ in Modern India. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 42(3), 452-468. https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2019.1596778

This paper discusses the efforts of two Indian Muslim journalists, Abul Kalam Azad (1888–1958) and Aziz Burney (1952–), to use and overcome the constraints of direct and indirect censorship in order to address a community (qaum) conceived in their ow... Read More about From ‘Imam ul-Hind’ to Azizul Hind: The ‘One Man Media House’ in Modern India.

Refugee Law in Crisis: Decolonizing the Architecture of Violence (2018)
Book Chapter
Bruce-Jones, E. (2018). Refugee Law in Crisis: Decolonizing the Architecture of Violence. In M. Bosworth, A. Parmar, & Y. Vázquez (Eds.), Race, Criminal Justice, and Migration Control: Enforcing the Boundaries of Belonging (176-193). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198814887.003.0012

This chapter aims to critically interrogate foundational aspects of refugee law from a decolonial perspective. Considered within the context of contemporary debates on counterterrorism and border control in the United Kingdom, it argues that the way... Read More about Refugee Law in Crisis: Decolonizing the Architecture of Violence.