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Jasmine K Gani
@jasminekgani.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor in International Relations Theory at LSE.
History | Political Theory | Race | Colonialism | Resistance | MENA
Teach on Colonialism & Israel-Palestine

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Please join us for this panel tomorrow with excellent colleagues.

"Seeing beyond the core: alternative visions of order in times of global crisis"

All welcome: 22 Oct 6.30pm, at LSE
@iliasalami.bsky.social @giuliasciorati.bsky.social @lseir.bsky.social
www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...
Seeing Beyond the Core: Alternative visions of order in times of global crisis
6.30pm Weds 22 Oct | Ilias Alami, Lina Benabdallah, Jasmine Gani, Jenna Marshall | Free public event at LSE
www.lse.ac.uk
October 21, 2025 at 9:35 AM
jasminekgani.bsky.social
"Arresting peaceful protesters & those disrupting the arms trade is a dangerous misuse of counter-terror resources, with over 2,000 people having now been arrested — a staggering 3,100% increase in counter-terror arrests."

Govt challenge rightly thrown out.
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2555103...
Judicial review of Palestine Action ban to proceed as government challenge throw out
A legal challenge to the decision to proscribe Palestine Action will proceed, after an attempt by the Home Office to block the case was thrown out
www.heraldscotland.com
October 17, 2025 at 12:59 PM
jasminekgani.bsky.social
This Thursday 16th Oct I'll be speaking on my project on "Severing Colonial Relationality" for the ANU Cais public lecture series. (Online, all welcome).

📍5pm in Canberra (7am BST for early risers in the UK!)
Registration link below 👇 @lseir.bsky.social

cais.cass.anu.edu.au/events/cais-...
CAIS Public Lecture Series | Severing Colonial Relationality: Towards an Islamicate Theory of Autonomy and Refusal | Centre for Arab & Islamic Studies
In this paper I seek to bring to the fore the theological sources of everyday resistance in the Islamicate, focusing specifically on emancipatory detachment. In doing so, I think with anti-colonial th...
cais.cass.anu.edu.au
October 14, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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theguardian.com
While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik
While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik
Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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iliasalami.bsky.social
In case that's of interest, I'm speaking at the LSE in a couple of weeks (22 October, 6.30pm - 8pm) alongside brilliant peeps.
www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...
Seeing Beyond the Core: Alternative visions of order in times of global crisis
6.30pm Weds 22 Oct | Ilias Alami, Lina Benabdallah, Jasmine Gani, Jenna Marshall | Free public event at LSE
www.lse.ac.uk
October 10, 2025 at 12:08 PM
jasminekgani.bsky.social
"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
Extract from the linked article "Race Reports": "What does it mean for the university to acknowledge the 'displacement of indigenous people' in the nineteenth century as a generative driver of its wealth at the same time as it exhibits a studied indifference or, worse, active hostility to those campaigning against the decimation of the indigenous people of Palestine in the genocide that has been ongoing since October 2023? Within weeks of the onset of the genocide an early facade of institutional neutrality, itself premised on a morally objectionable equation of the violence of the colonised and the coloniser, gave way to outright condemnation of Palestine solidarity"
October 8, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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lrb.co.uk
‘This show has excited controversy: should we even be talking about damage to antiquities in the context of so much killing?’

@josephinequinn.bsky.social on an exhibition of Gazan antiquities: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Josephine Quinn · At the Institut du monde arabe: ‘Trésors sauvés de Gaza’
This show has excited controversy: should we even be talking about damage to antiquities in the context of so much...
www.lrb.co.uk
October 2, 2025 at 7:46 AM
jasminekgani.bsky.social
"Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds"

The UN joins other experts including the International Association of Genocide Scholars, Holocaust historians, and multitudes of lawyers in concluding this is genocide.

www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds
GENEVA – Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, a...
www.ohchr.org
September 16, 2025 at 9:28 AM
jasminekgani.bsky.social
Predicating Israeli compliance with basic humanitarian law upon a denial of Palestinian rights would be immoral and idiotic in any context; but even more so when announced by a former human rights lawyer.
July 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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benedictgarman.com
We geolocated the view out of the window as Jeremy Bowen's team filmed packages falling from a plane over Gaza yesterday. They were dropped into a "dangerous combat zone", which Palestinians are warned not to enter because it would put their lives at risk. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
July 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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mariasolemarsh.bsky.social
Publishing this month: OCCUPIER AND OCCUPIED by Chloe Skinner - www.cambridge.org/core/books/o...
Occupier and Occupied
Cambridge Core - Middle East Studies - Occupier and Occupied
www.cambridge.org
July 23, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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illdottore.bsky.social
Rümeysa Öztürk describes the library in the prison where she was held for 45 days for co-authoring an op-ed
After many requests, I finally accessed what turned out to be the saddest and smallest library I have ever seen. I was surprised to find that the books were not categorized by author or Dewey number but size. I tried to find a book before my allotted time ended and picked a cooking book; the second time I got a novel. I began flipping through the pages in search of solace, as books have always been my safe haven. To my surprise, I discovered handwritten notes scattered throughout the book, dated and written by various detainees over time. These messages were filled with reminders of hope, strength, and the assurance that this, too, shall pass. Tears welled up in my eyes as I read their heartfelt expressions. It’s incredible how human beings can find ways to uplift each other, transcending time, space, and borders if they want to and if they choose to. I continued to turn the pages, holding on to the hope of finding brighter moments in this terrifying situation—all thanks to the kindness of people I had never met.
July 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
jasminekgani.bsky.social
👇 This looks excellent -Congratulations to all involved
sandeepbak.bsky.social Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · Jul 4
Anyhoo, this will be the last post preceding actual publication at the end of this month. Please order it for your libraries. It's been a long-drawn process but totally worth it.
A preview is available on the site, under the rubric 'major work' in cultural theory.

uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/th...
Cover of The Sage Handbook of Decolonial Theory with an image of Palestinian Tartreez
July 10, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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alanlester.bsky.social
The hallmarks of settler colonial genocides: offering relief as an opportunity to kill; complete dehumanisation (“zombie hordes”) and an exultation at the infliction of pain & suffering.

Gaza aid contractor tells BBC he saw colleagues fire on hungry Palestinians www.bbc.com/news/article...
Gaza aid contractor tells BBC he saw colleagues fire on hungry Palestinians
The Israel- and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has strongly denied the allegation.
www.bbc.com
July 4, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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leadavid.bsky.social
Gaza and the Sociology of War, open access, with @sinisamalesevic.bsky.social in Journal of Genocide Research
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Organized Callousness: Gaza and the Sociology of War
Published in Journal of Genocide Research (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
May 14, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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lseir.bsky.social
What are Trump's ICE raids really about?

To mark World Refugee Day, stephrschwartz.bsky.social reflects on Trump’s immigration crackdown and the extreme measures sparking nationwide protest. Is this restoring order or eroding democracy? #USImmigration #WorldRefugeeDay #LSE

youtu.be/xQyUSGN4YY4?...
What are Trump's ICE raids really about? #USImmigration #WorldRefugeeDay #LSE
YouTube video by LSE
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June 24, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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lseir.bsky.social
Did you miss this year’s Fred Halliday Memorial Lecture?

Featuring Prof @georgelawson.bsky.social, Dr @jasminekgani.bsky.social, and Prof Toby Dodge, the event explored the relationship between revolutions and world order in contemporary geopolitics.

🎥 Watch the full recording here: bit.ly/3ZybKP3
Revolutions and world order: still the 'Sixth Great Power'? | LSE Event
YouTube video by LSE
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June 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM
jasminekgani.bsky.social
Friends in Oxford - I'll be speaking this afternoon about islamicate theories of autonomy and refusal - pls feel free to join, 4pm @ DPIR:
www.politics.ox.ac.uk/event/sovere...
Sovereignty and its Discontents (SAID) Workshop: Jasmine K. Gani (LSE)
www.politics.ox.ac.uk
June 12, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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more power to brilliant @mauraf.bsky.social and Free Palestine always! | A Professor Was Fired for Her Politics. Is That the Future of Academia? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/m...
A Professor Was Fired for Her Politics. Is That the Future of Academia?
www.nytimes.com
June 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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whitproject.bsky.social
THREE 5-year Lectureships in IR at Oxford.

One person will have expertise in Historical and Interpretive Methods; another in Qualitative Methods, and a third in Quantitative Methods

We're looking for people with substantive expertise in historical international relations, the IR of Africa...
June 9, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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folukeifejola.bsky.social
Pleased to share my new article! I reflect on what our responsibility is, as legal academics, to students experiencing racism and how we can surface the ways racism plays out "politely" such that the law school feels like a space to which they cannot fully belong.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Seeking the university that is ours: understanding, unpacking and unsettling Black students’ racialised (un)belonging in UK law schools
This article unpacks the nature of racialised (un)belonging experienced by law students – why for students of colour, the law school has often felt like a space to which they cannot fully belong. F...
www.tandfonline.com
May 28, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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meganotoole.bsky.social
The carbon footprint of the first 15 months of Israel’s war on Gaza will be greater than the annual planet-warming emissions of 100 individual countries, new research reveals.
Carbon footprint of Israel’s war on Gaza exceeds that of many entire countries
Exclusive: The climate cost is more than than the combined 2023 emissions of Costa Rica and Estonia, study finds
www.theguardian.com
May 30, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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annastavrianakis.bsky.social
BBC reports that "UK suspends Israel trade talks and summons ambassador over 'intolerable' Gaza offensive" - I look forward to a forthcoming announcement of an immediate suspension of all arms export licences, which would materially halt Israel's offensive
May 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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This is happening right now.

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
UN warns 14,000 babies could die in Gaza in next 48 hours without aid – Israel-Gaza war live UN’s humanitarian chief says aid lorries, which contain baby food and nutrition, are technically in Gaza but have not reached civilians
May 20, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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chrischirp.bsky.social
I can't express how bleak and horrifying it is that the prospect of starving 2 million people, half of whom are children, is only undesired because of the "practical" implications
May 19, 2025 at 8:59 AM