The entire handbook is a gem. It contains a wealth of chapters that conceptualize key concepts and issues in politics and society from the perspective of the Global South. Shireen Hassim & Anna Korteweg have been amazing editors. e-elgar.com/shop/usd/handb

I'm looking forward to presenting research that builds on this work at the @esil-sedi.bsky.social conference in Berlin on September 12th. @cailesil.bsky.social

Other authors have sketched a variety of techniques of producing ignorance. In our case we highlight: insistence on uncertainty (as opposed to denial), rejection of external knowledges, over-valuing of own institutional knowledges, and a lack of effort to know more & better. 3/

The chapter has been marinating for a while; an early draft was presented in March 2023. @helyehdoutaghi.bsky.social and Hijaab Yahya have been ownderful co-authors. Many thanks our collaborators at @airwars.bsky.social who are doing the work of documenting civilian harm against organized ignorance.

Our analysis also speaks to genocide in Palestine. In this, we honor the legacy of journalists like Hossam, who gave his life exposing the violence and the hierarchies of credibility that devalue Palestinian lives. May our work carry forward his truth./end

Rather than translating practices of unequal civilian recognition and protection into law, we should be working on recognizing and mitigating the existing inequalities that are shaped by the gendered and racialized ideologies that shape Western imperial missions in West Asia./5

The legal category of the civilian has regularly and predictably failed to protect non-European non-combatants in practice. The stratification of security, credibility, and compensation among civilians mirrors the political & epistemic dynamics of the wars in which it occurs./4

What do these practices of recognizing, compensating, believing, and protecting civilians stratified by race, gender, and proximity to Western organizations suggest about the legal status of the civilian? 3/ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Building on work on gendered & racialized imaginaries of civilianhood, we find that the epistemic work required to convince the US military that victims were in fact civilians was made easier when Western orgs (Reuters/MSF) claimed victims as employees or patients. 2/

Few humans would choose to lose their life or job for what is right, but much less than that would have gone a long way here. For the latest on this case and Yale's complicity, see this @dropsitenews.com interview with Dr. Helyeh Doutaghi www.dropsitenews.com/p/exclusive-...

Helyehs statement 1/4