War between good citizens and bad citizens: tools for today’s totalitarianism in Brazil and the Philippines
On May 6, 2021, on the heels of Brazil’s deadliest month since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, special police forces in …
This safety asphyxiates us: The banal border in Barcelona
Last month, while in Spain, we woke up to the news that local residents in the Canary Islands were planning to set …
How does/did Modi do it? The significance of ‘decisionism’
An introductory note: In the short space of time that has elapsed since I first drafted this essay – in the last …
Totalizing Infrastructures: Statecraft in the Uyghur Penal Colony
There were three lanes at the checkpoint in Turpan—an old Uyghur-majority oasis city on the northern reaches of the Taklamakan Desert in …
Sinicizing Islam in Contemporary China
Modern states, both liberal and non-liberal, tend to deploy totalitarian-style strategies which force an “internal other” to assimilate into the dominant group. …
Casting Out the Disabled and Ill Immigrant: The Legacies of Australia’s Immigration Restriction Act of 1901
Collectively, immigration policies function to perform national sovereignty by reinforcing the division between citizen and migrant, usually conflated with ‘native’ and ‘outsider.’ …
Today’s Totalitarian Menace
Wherever one looks across the globe today democracy is in decline and trends towards what was once called “totalitarianism” are on the …
Today’s Totalitarianism – Call for Submissions
Today’s Totalitarianism welcomes written opinion pieces that increase our awareness of the dangers we confront at this historical juncture anywhere in the …
The Search for a Good Online Journal Platform
There’s an old saying, probably from a management textbook somewhere, that I see pop up on the software developer side of the …
On Pandemic Prophecy, Unsustainable Lockdowns and the Magic of Numbers: A Conversation with Carlo Caduff #MUHUM
As vast parts of the world went into Covid-19 lockdown over the past months critics of this approach have emerged from a …
Muslim NGOs Facing COVID-19 in France #MUHUM
Since the beginning of the Covid-19, Muslim NGOs have been at the forefront of the crisis in France. Their implication at the …
#MDGCOMICS: MZUNGUS IN DEVELOPMENT AND GOVERNMENTS! #10
In Episode 10, Going Native, Omar grasps the true meaning of kizunguzungu: but is the dizziness coming from denying local researchers authorship, or …
#MDGComics: Mzungus in Development and Governments! #9
In Section 9 Omar teaches Greta the amount of adjectives required to break government gatekeeping – while Naga defends the precious Ministry data …
#MDGComics: Mzungus in Development and Governments! #8
In Section 8, Linguistic Interpretation (or lost in MDGs translation), the role of language is explored. Will Omar understand Mzungus better if he improves …
#MDGComics: Mzungus in Development and Governments! #7
In Section 7 Omar is in search of his own existential place within the research: definitely not inside the Cheraton, maybe far from …
Welcome to #MDGcomics: Mzungus in Development and Governments!
Welcome to #MDGcomics: Mzungus in Development and Governments! A Phd turned Graphic novel about Mzungus in Development and Governments. Meet Omar, the …
Muslim Humanitarianism: An Afterword #MUHUM
What kind of practices, forms of moral reasoning and ethical orientation does Muslim humanitarianism entail? In what contexts and in response to …
Islam, Humanitarianism and everyday religion #MUHUM
In this intervention I argue that charitable or humanitarian practices among contemporary Muslims— and everyday religiosity more generally—are constituted and experienced not …
At Odds with the Impulse: Muslim Humanitarianism and its Exclusions in Northern Pakistan #MUHUM
Drawing on fieldwork undertaken between 2004 and 2013 in Gilgit Town, the multi-sectarian capital of the Gilgit-Baltistan region of northern Pakistan, this …
A Postcolonial Civic? Shi‘i Philanthropy and the Making and Marking of Urban Space in Mumbai #MUHUM
Scholarly discussions of charity, philanthropy and humanitarianism in varied contexts tend to uphold the moral ideal of giving for the sake of …
The Egyptian Red Crescent in the Twentieth Century #MUHUM
The Egyptian Red Crescent was founded in 1912 by Sheikh Ali Yussuf with a clear Panislamic and anticolonial agenda. In the following …
Saudi Arabia, Humanitarian Aid and Knowledge Production: What do we really know? #MUHUM
Saudi Arabia has one of the largest humanitarian aid budgets in the world. It counts as an ‘emerging’ donor of substantial influence …
Reflections on a Theory of Zakat #MUHUM
This inquiry into the role of “obligatory almsgiving” (zakat) within Muslim humanitarianism presents a theorization of two modes of Islamic charity: the …
Theorizing Humanitarianism for an Islamic Counterpublic #MUHUM
Closely attending to Muslim theorizations provides an opportunity for social scientists to stop asking such questions as ‘what is so Islamic about …