Dr Amal Abu-Bakare
@nawalabu72.bsky.social
Lecturer in the politics of race & decolonial studies / IR lover researching terror & migration-security/ Black Muslim feminist killjoy | https://colouredacademia.wordpress.com
Trying to do some good by challenging the racialisation in counterterrorism policy & law - it took 3 years but my research is out in the ‘Report of the Independent Commission on UK Counterterrorism Law, Policy and Practice’. Many thanks to Tufyal Choudhury and the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law.
November 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Trying to do some good by challenging the racialisation in counterterrorism policy & law - it took 3 years but my research is out in the ‘Report of the Independent Commission on UK Counterterrorism Law, Policy and Practice’. Many thanks to Tufyal Choudhury and the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law.
I am really honoured to share that I will be a keynote at this year’s Millennium: Journal of International Studies symposium. I’ll be focusing my talk on my 2022 piece ‘Your Work Is Not International Relations’. Thank you very much to the editorial team! : millenniumjournal.org/call-for-abs...
October 22, 2025 at 7:52 AM
I am really honoured to share that I will be a keynote at this year’s Millennium: Journal of International Studies symposium. I’ll be focusing my talk on my 2022 piece ‘Your Work Is Not International Relations’. Thank you very much to the editorial team! : millenniumjournal.org/call-for-abs...
Spoke about Malcolm X and his legacy with some brilliant panellists yesterday at the 2025 Birmingham Literature Festival. Thank you to the Writers Mosaic team for having me ! @royalliteraryfund.bsky.social @writersmosaic.bsky.social #birminghamlit2025
October 12, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Spoke about Malcolm X and his legacy with some brilliant panellists yesterday at the 2025 Birmingham Literature Festival. Thank you to the Writers Mosaic team for having me ! @royalliteraryfund.bsky.social @writersmosaic.bsky.social #birminghamlit2025
Im in an IR textbook as a reference in world politics! Check out : ‘Thinking World Politics Otherwise: A Diverse Introduction to International Relations’ from Oxford University Press 📚 Thank you to the amazing editors for highlighting my work! @livunipol.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social
September 22, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Im in an IR textbook as a reference in world politics! Check out : ‘Thinking World Politics Otherwise: A Diverse Introduction to International Relations’ from Oxford University Press 📚 Thank you to the amazing editors for highlighting my work! @livunipol.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social
Thank you to everyone who came to our @oxfordunipress.bsky.social book launch , Narratives of Hope, and Storytelling against the colonial panels and round tables ☺️it’s been an honour to share my thoughts and research with the @europeanisa.bsky.social research community ! #eisapec2025
August 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Thank you to everyone who came to our @oxfordunipress.bsky.social book launch , Narratives of Hope, and Storytelling against the colonial panels and round tables ☺️it’s been an honour to share my thoughts and research with the @europeanisa.bsky.social research community ! #eisapec2025
Really enjoyed the panel on ‘ Memory, Justice, and the Politics of knowing : Decolonial Perspectives on Transitional Contexts’ ! Got to see some great presentations from Noga Glucksam and Sung-Jin Park! @uni-jena.de @richmondunildn.bsky.social #eisapec2025
August 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Really enjoyed the panel on ‘ Memory, Justice, and the Politics of knowing : Decolonial Perspectives on Transitional Contexts’ ! Got to see some great presentations from Noga Glucksam and Sung-Jin Park! @uni-jena.de @richmondunildn.bsky.social #eisapec2025
Excited to listen to the role of Critical/Orthodox Terrorism Studies in the permissibility of violence this morning with @lisastampnitzky.bsky.social @rmkhan.bsky.social @nicolapratt.bsky.social Madeline-sophie abbas and @amnakaleem.bsky.social
#eisapec2025
#eisapec2025
August 27, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Excited to listen to the role of Critical/Orthodox Terrorism Studies in the permissibility of violence this morning with @lisastampnitzky.bsky.social @rmkhan.bsky.social @nicolapratt.bsky.social Madeline-sophie abbas and @amnakaleem.bsky.social
#eisapec2025
#eisapec2025
Congratulations to @malikalnasir.bsky.social on his book launch for ‘Searching for My Slave Roots:From Guyana’s Sugar Plantations to Cambridge’ yesterday at @walkerartgallery.bsky.social It’s been an honour to witness Malik win and share his story with the world: harpercollins.co.uk/products/sea...
August 24, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Congratulations to @malikalnasir.bsky.social on his book launch for ‘Searching for My Slave Roots:From Guyana’s Sugar Plantations to Cambridge’ yesterday at @walkerartgallery.bsky.social It’s been an honour to witness Malik win and share his story with the world: harpercollins.co.uk/products/sea...
Stay safe Liverpool. It’s shame that in 2025 we still have to tell the police that the safety of racialised people matters more than ensuring white supremacists are happy,content, and ‘free’
August 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Stay safe Liverpool. It’s shame that in 2025 we still have to tell the police that the safety of racialised people matters more than ensuring white supremacists are happy,content, and ‘free’
From God we are to god we shall return. Rest in power Alia Hogben. A beautiful kind and radical soul. My condolences to all those grieving Alia today ❤️
June 16, 2025 at 8:56 PM
From God we are to god we shall return. Rest in power Alia Hogben. A beautiful kind and radical soul. My condolences to all those grieving Alia today ❤️
Saw the @mosalahbr.bsky.social parade today #liverpoolFC!! ❤️⚽️🚩🚩
May 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Saw the @mosalahbr.bsky.social parade today #liverpoolFC!! ❤️⚽️🚩🚩
Me and Lily taking a water break at the park while being indirectly serenaded. The artists name is Ike Thomas : ikethomas.os.fan
May 16, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Me and Lily taking a water break at the park while being indirectly serenaded. The artists name is Ike Thomas : ikethomas.os.fan
This time last year, when asked at the @gvagrad.bsky.social
to comment on the EU’s rise of the far right, I said I was more worried about what the election of #KeirStarmer would mean for the normalization of the far Right and that I couldn’t overlook the politics of my backyard. I stand by that.
to comment on the EU’s rise of the far right, I said I was more worried about what the election of #KeirStarmer would mean for the normalization of the far Right and that I couldn’t overlook the politics of my backyard. I stand by that.
May 13, 2025 at 12:46 AM
This time last year, when asked at the @gvagrad.bsky.social
to comment on the EU’s rise of the far right, I said I was more worried about what the election of #KeirStarmer would mean for the normalization of the far Right and that I couldn’t overlook the politics of my backyard. I stand by that.
to comment on the EU’s rise of the far right, I said I was more worried about what the election of #KeirStarmer would mean for the normalization of the far Right and that I couldn’t overlook the politics of my backyard. I stand by that.
Had the pleasure of attending Lanre Bakare’s @lanre-bakare.bsky.social book launch of ‘We were there’ yesterday at Tate Liverpool. I’ve only just started reading but it’s an incredible reckoning of the presence Black power in the North so far ! Highly recommend!: www.penguin.co.uk/books/453942...
May 1, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Had the pleasure of attending Lanre Bakare’s @lanre-bakare.bsky.social book launch of ‘We were there’ yesterday at Tate Liverpool. I’ve only just started reading but it’s an incredible reckoning of the presence Black power in the North so far ! Highly recommend!: www.penguin.co.uk/books/453942...
Really enjoying a workshop on the affective economy of memes organised by @ngellwitzki.bsky.social of @york.ac.uk. Learning about the origins and affects of Pepe, the feels guy, the Godchancellor and the role of memes in the global communication of political sentiments and discourse
April 7, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Really enjoying a workshop on the affective economy of memes organised by @ngellwitzki.bsky.social of @york.ac.uk. Learning about the origins and affects of Pepe, the feels guy, the Godchancellor and the role of memes in the global communication of political sentiments and discourse
With my MA class titled ‘Anticolonial legacies in international politics’,students organise a 20min seminar conversation focused on discussing how colonial legacies connect with epistemic violence, the narration of time and space, worlding and more.Incredibly proud to watch them lead their learning!
April 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
With my MA class titled ‘Anticolonial legacies in international politics’,students organise a 20min seminar conversation focused on discussing how colonial legacies connect with epistemic violence, the narration of time and space, worlding and more.Incredibly proud to watch them lead their learning!
Thank you so much to Dr Ajay Parasram of @dalhousieu.bsky.social for speaking with our @livunipol.bsky.social POLI265 students today on the topic of Global Racial Fragility and White Supremacy
March 31, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Thank you so much to Dr Ajay Parasram of @dalhousieu.bsky.social for speaking with our @livunipol.bsky.social POLI265 students today on the topic of Global Racial Fragility and White Supremacy
Eid Mubarak to you and yours ☪️🎉
March 30, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Eid Mubarak to you and yours ☪️🎉
I had a great field trip with my @livunipol.bsky.social students to the Benin and Liverpool exhibit at the World Museum. Thank you to @mobbackhouse.bsky.social
for taking the time to walk us through the design and decolonising politics of museum curation and for a detailed Q&A
for taking the time to walk us through the design and decolonising politics of museum curation and for a detailed Q&A
March 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I had a great field trip with my @livunipol.bsky.social students to the Benin and Liverpool exhibit at the World Museum. Thank you to @mobbackhouse.bsky.social
for taking the time to walk us through the design and decolonising politics of museum curation and for a detailed Q&A
for taking the time to walk us through the design and decolonising politics of museum curation and for a detailed Q&A
Typical Monday at @livunipol.bsky.social .Today I used Kendrick Lamar to introduce the idea of music being a medium for communicating the racial politics of care.We discussed the migrant as the ‘new’ precariat, Amy Niang’s scholarship on acknowledging Others through love,and the Windrush generation.
March 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Typical Monday at @livunipol.bsky.social .Today I used Kendrick Lamar to introduce the idea of music being a medium for communicating the racial politics of care.We discussed the migrant as the ‘new’ precariat, Amy Niang’s scholarship on acknowledging Others through love,and the Windrush generation.
Really excited to be the topic of the @livunihss.bsky.social recent ‘Researcher in Focus’ podcast series episode discussing my work on counterterrorism and race as part of @livunipol.bsky.social 📚
March 15, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Really excited to be the topic of the @livunihss.bsky.social recent ‘Researcher in Focus’ podcast series episode discussing my work on counterterrorism and race as part of @livunipol.bsky.social 📚
Congratulations to Sumuyya Khader and all the artists of #Conversations, A @walkerartgallery.bsky.social exhibition bringing together work by around 40 leading Black women and non-binary artists.
March 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Congratulations to Sumuyya Khader and all the artists of #Conversations, A @walkerartgallery.bsky.social exhibition bringing together work by around 40 leading Black women and non-binary artists.
The president’s address at @isanet.bsky.social was peacefully disrupted to draw institutional attention to the issue of democratisation in ISA governance and the acknowledgement of scholasticide in how we conduct research ‘as normal’ #isa2025
March 4, 2025 at 11:06 PM
The president’s address at @isanet.bsky.social was peacefully disrupted to draw institutional attention to the issue of democratisation in ISA governance and the acknowledgement of scholasticide in how we conduct research ‘as normal’ #isa2025
“Our country’s national crime is lynching.It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob. It represents the cool, calculating deliberation of intelligent people”.
– Ida B. Wells, “Lynch Law in America” speech, Chicago (1900)
– Ida B. Wells, “Lynch Law in America” speech, Chicago (1900)
March 4, 2025 at 10:40 PM
“Our country’s national crime is lynching.It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob. It represents the cool, calculating deliberation of intelligent people”.
– Ida B. Wells, “Lynch Law in America” speech, Chicago (1900)
– Ida B. Wells, “Lynch Law in America” speech, Chicago (1900)