Shaimaa Abdelkarim
@shaimabdelkarim.bsky.social
assistant prof. in postcolonial legal theory and critical race studies ☀️
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Great opportunity: gendersexualityfeminist.duke.edu/black-feminist-theory-summer-institute
Deadline for applying: December 15, 2025
Deadline for applying: December 15, 2025
Year 5 of the Black Feminist Theory Summer Institute: Applications are open, more info on our website. Please spread the word.
October 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Great opportunity: gendersexualityfeminist.duke.edu/black-feminist-theory-summer-institute
Deadline for applying: December 15, 2025
Deadline for applying: December 15, 2025
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New article co-authored with @gautambhatia88.bsky.social published in @compconstudies.bsky.social on the vastly divergent approach of Indian courts on the right to housing in cases about home demolitions and evictions. It's open access for 3 months!
www.elgaronline.com/view/journal...
www.elgaronline.com/view/journal...
www.elgaronline.com
October 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
New article co-authored with @gautambhatia88.bsky.social published in @compconstudies.bsky.social on the vastly divergent approach of Indian courts on the right to housing in cases about home demolitions and evictions. It's open access for 3 months!
www.elgaronline.com/view/journal...
www.elgaronline.com/view/journal...
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Call for Papers: Second International Conference of Critical Legal Geography// March 17-20, 2026 in Chile// Deadline: Nov 10, 2025// More info: cnlh.ubc.ca/call-for-pap...
October 7, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Call for Papers: Second International Conference of Critical Legal Geography// March 17-20, 2026 in Chile// Deadline: Nov 10, 2025// More info: cnlh.ubc.ca/call-for-pap...
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September 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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This was a great chat I think. Alex on his usual excellent form and @rafeefz.bsky.social and Adam both brilliant as ever.
This is our first pod about the @versobooks.bsky.social pamphlet and it's good to start out with some of the best.
This is our first pod about the @versobooks.bsky.social pamphlet and it's good to start out with some of the best.
📢🇵🇸NEW EPISODE 📢🇵🇸 - @rafeefz.bsky.social, @pashukanist.bsky.social and Adam Hanieh on their new book, 'Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine':
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Resisting Erasure w/ Adam Hanieh, Rafeef Ziadah and Robert Knox
Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 08/20/2025 · 1h 19m
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August 20, 2025 at 1:47 PM
This was a great chat I think. Alex on his usual excellent form and @rafeefz.bsky.social and Adam both brilliant as ever.
This is our first pod about the @versobooks.bsky.social pamphlet and it's good to start out with some of the best.
This is our first pod about the @versobooks.bsky.social pamphlet and it's good to start out with some of the best.
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My latest article is now out with @flsjournal.bsky.social - ‘Beyond international human rights: Islamic feminism as alternative rights praxis’. Available open access here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Beyond International Human Rights: Islamic Feminism as Alternative Rights Praxis - Feminist Legal Studies
This article examines Islamic Feminism (IF) as an example of an alternative rights framework that falls beyond international human rights law (IHRL) in terms of its epistemic and conceptual grounding ...
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July 3, 2025 at 5:37 PM
My latest article is now out with @flsjournal.bsky.social - ‘Beyond international human rights: Islamic feminism as alternative rights praxis’. Available open access here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Join us for an interactive day on research methods at university of Leicester September 17. PGR travel expenses paid for attendance. @silvilunazul.bsky.social and I will be speaking on decolonial and feminist methods. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/m4c-dialog...
M4C Dialogue Day: Dialogues on Feminist Decolonial Methods
A day for arts and humanities researchers to explore questions of voice, authority, methods, and the futures of anti-disciplinarity.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
August 4, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Join us for an interactive day on research methods at university of Leicester September 17. PGR travel expenses paid for attendance. @silvilunazul.bsky.social and I will be speaking on decolonial and feminist methods. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/m4c-dialog...
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‘Do the pilots who bomb children have children’
A list of questions from Palestinian children in Gaza, compiled by the staff of the Palestine Trauma Centre in Gaza:
July 17, 2025 at 6:32 AM
‘Do the pilots who bomb children have children’
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Physical copies of this, written by Adam Hanieh l, myself and @rafeefz.bsky.social seem to be appearing on the shelves.
If you can't find a copy it's still available for preorder from Verso - www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
If you can't find a copy it's still available for preorder from Verso - www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
July 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Physical copies of this, written by Adam Hanieh l, myself and @rafeefz.bsky.social seem to be appearing on the shelves.
If you can't find a copy it's still available for preorder from Verso - www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
If you can't find a copy it's still available for preorder from Verso - www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
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Darlings, the first time I'm seeing it in print. Thank you to @dr-di.bsky.social for the photo. Have so many feels. Still awaiting mine.
Please share pics when you receive yours. And, request your libraries to order it.
All royalties donated to Gaza.
Onwards comrades.
us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/th...
Please share pics when you receive yours. And, request your libraries to order it.
All royalties donated to Gaza.
Onwards comrades.
us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/th...
July 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Darlings, the first time I'm seeing it in print. Thank you to @dr-di.bsky.social for the photo. Have so many feels. Still awaiting mine.
Please share pics when you receive yours. And, request your libraries to order it.
All royalties donated to Gaza.
Onwards comrades.
us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/th...
Please share pics when you receive yours. And, request your libraries to order it.
All royalties donated to Gaza.
Onwards comrades.
us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/th...
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Brick-by-Brick, Wall-by-Wall: Co-Producing Transnational Feminist Abolitionist Knowledges
molly ackhurst, Shaimaa Abdelkarim (@shaimabdelkarim.bsky.social) & Silvana Tapia Tapia (@silvilunazul.bsky.social)
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molly ackhurst, Shaimaa Abdelkarim (@shaimabdelkarim.bsky.social) & Silvana Tapia Tapia (@silvilunazul.bsky.social)
isrf.org/projects/bri...
Brick-by-Brick, Wall-by-Wall: Co-Producing Transnational Feminist Abolitionist Knowledges
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July 9, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Brick-by-Brick, Wall-by-Wall: Co-Producing Transnational Feminist Abolitionist Knowledges
molly ackhurst, Shaimaa Abdelkarim (@shaimabdelkarim.bsky.social) & Silvana Tapia Tapia (@silvilunazul.bsky.social)
isrf.org/projects/bri...
molly ackhurst, Shaimaa Abdelkarim (@shaimabdelkarim.bsky.social) & Silvana Tapia Tapia (@silvilunazul.bsky.social)
isrf.org/projects/bri...
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We thought we knew tired when we wrote this. Exhausted with @jennifercnash.bsky.social @differences.bsky.social doi.org/10.1215/1040...
On Exhaustion: Toward a Post-Care Feminism
This essay is a critical response to the emergence of “care” as the antidote to the multiple crises that plague the present. The call for care— intramural care, radical care, mutual aid, etc.—has prol...
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June 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM
We thought we knew tired when we wrote this. Exhausted with @jennifercnash.bsky.social @differences.bsky.social doi.org/10.1215/1040...
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My newest piece on how to end starvation and famine in Gaza. The UN General Assembly must authorize peacekeepers to accompany humanitarian convoys.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
If aid doesn’t enter Gaza now, 14,000 babies may die. UN peacekeepers must step in | Michael Fakhri
As a UN special rapporteur on the right to food, I have watched for 19 months as Israel starves children. The world must act now
www.theguardian.com
May 23, 2025 at 4:03 AM
My newest piece on how to end starvation and famine in Gaza. The UN General Assembly must authorize peacekeepers to accompany humanitarian convoys.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Special Rapporteur on the right to food @MichaelFakhri writes in the @guardian: The GA must act to authorize peacekeepers to ensure aid delivery to Gaza. I have called on the GA before to act under the Uniting for Peace res. and fully endorse this.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
If aid doesn’t enter Gaza now, 14,000 babies may die. UN peacekeepers must step in | Michael Fakhri
As a UN special rapporteur on the right to food, I have watched for 19 months as Israel starves children. The world must act now
www.theguardian.com
May 22, 2025 at 6:49 PM
The Special Rapporteur on the right to food @MichaelFakhri writes in the @guardian: The GA must act to authorize peacekeepers to ensure aid delivery to Gaza. I have called on the GA before to act under the Uniting for Peace res. and fully endorse this.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Amazing workshop at Univeristy of Greenwich with Renginee Pillay and Tom Frost facilitating conversations on decoloniality, student-led coproduction and AI as part of the Reimagining Antiracist and Decolonial Law collective. Special issue coming soon 🎊 #RADLAW
May 22, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Amazing workshop at Univeristy of Greenwich with Renginee Pillay and Tom Frost facilitating conversations on decoloniality, student-led coproduction and AI as part of the Reimagining Antiracist and Decolonial Law collective. Special issue coming soon 🎊 #RADLAW
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This was a great chat! If you've not listened to the podcast before check it out for all this #utopia & #dystopia
A new episode of the Utopian and Dystopian Fictions podcast is coming tomorrow. It features a great interview with @aoifemod.bsky.social and @ruthhoughton.bsky.social, covering all things utopia, law, and feminist utopias.
April 11, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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So excited that my book is now in press! It’ll be out next month.
April 7, 2025 at 10:15 AM
So excited that my book is now in press! It’ll be out next month.
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Join us for a book launch with the author @quinnslobodian.com to discuss his latest book, 'Hayek’s Bastards: The Neoliberal Roots of the Populist Right'
🗓️ May 7th
📍 Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS
⏰ 12 noon to 1:30 PM
Please register here: forms.office.com/e/0F7RF8cKxk
🗓️ May 7th
📍 Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS
⏰ 12 noon to 1:30 PM
Please register here: forms.office.com/e/0F7RF8cKxk
April 10, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Join us for a book launch with the author @quinnslobodian.com to discuss his latest book, 'Hayek’s Bastards: The Neoliberal Roots of the Populist Right'
🗓️ May 7th
📍 Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS
⏰ 12 noon to 1:30 PM
Please register here: forms.office.com/e/0F7RF8cKxk
🗓️ May 7th
📍 Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS
⏰ 12 noon to 1:30 PM
Please register here: forms.office.com/e/0F7RF8cKxk
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Palestine beyond the colonial logic of international law mondoweiss.net/2025/04/pale...
Palestine beyond the colonial logic of international law
The colonization of Palestine is not an anomaly in the liberal global order but its most glaring indictment. It exposes the hypocrisy of an international system that decries colonialism while institut...
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April 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Palestine beyond the colonial logic of international law mondoweiss.net/2025/04/pale...
Please join @silvilunazul.bsky.social, @leilaullrich.bsky.social and I on May 1, 2pm for an online conversation on Leila’s book ‘Victims and the Labour of Justice at the International Criminal Court’. Registration link below 👇🏾
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Conversation With: Dr Leila Ullrich and Dr Silvana Tapia Tapia. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Join us for a conversation with Dr Leila Ullrich and Dr Silvana Tapia Tapia on Dr Ullrich's book 'Victims and the Labour of Justice at the International Criminal Court: The Blame Cascade' (OUP 2024)
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bham-ac-uk.zoom.us
March 28, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Please join @silvilunazul.bsky.social, @leilaullrich.bsky.social and I on May 1, 2pm for an online conversation on Leila’s book ‘Victims and the Labour of Justice at the International Criminal Court’. Registration link below 👇🏾
bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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We stand in solidarity with our colleague @helyehdoutaghi.bsky.social
To quote Stuart Hall, "the university is a critical institution or it is nothing".
To quote Stuart Hall, "the university is a critical institution or it is nothing".
Suspended for Pro-Palestine Speech: My Statement on Yale Law School’s Embrace of AI-Generated Smears 1/3
March 13, 2025 at 4:15 AM
We stand in solidarity with our colleague @helyehdoutaghi.bsky.social
To quote Stuart Hall, "the university is a critical institution or it is nothing".
To quote Stuart Hall, "the university is a critical institution or it is nothing".
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Suspended for Pro-Palestine Speech: My Statement on Yale Law School’s Embrace of AI-Generated Smears 1/3
March 12, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Suspended for Pro-Palestine Speech: My Statement on Yale Law School’s Embrace of AI-Generated Smears 1/3
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📣 Job Alert
My university (Manchester Met) is looking to hire a few new law lecturers. We are a growing department, with colleagues working on critical, socio-legal legal issues relating to gender, sexuality, disability, race, migration, culture, etc. Check out the link for more info.
#AcademicSky
My university (Manchester Met) is looking to hire a few new law lecturers. We are a growing department, with colleagues working on critical, socio-legal legal issues relating to gender, sexuality, disability, race, migration, culture, etc. Check out the link for more info.
#AcademicSky
Lecturer in Law - (8085) | Manchester Metropolitan University Careers
All about Manchester Metropolitan - an exciting, modern university in the heart of one of the UK's great student cities.
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January 31, 2025 at 9:40 AM
📣 Job Alert
My university (Manchester Met) is looking to hire a few new law lecturers. We are a growing department, with colleagues working on critical, socio-legal legal issues relating to gender, sexuality, disability, race, migration, culture, etc. Check out the link for more info.
#AcademicSky
My university (Manchester Met) is looking to hire a few new law lecturers. We are a growing department, with colleagues working on critical, socio-legal legal issues relating to gender, sexuality, disability, race, migration, culture, etc. Check out the link for more info.
#AcademicSky