I was invited by Graduate Students in the Department of History to be their keynote lecturer for an international conference entitled, “Encountering Colonialism: Land, Lives, Legacies.” It was great to be able to switch gears from what I’ve been working on of late and return to my deep love of land, sovereignty, and 19th centuryContinue reading “The Refrain of Territory: Archiving in Relief and the Politics of Post/Settler Land”
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LSE Review of Books
Subversive Pedagogies was reviewed by Judith Leijdekkers and Sander Hölsgens in the LSE Review of Books Blog. I feel happy that they found value in my broadcasting of personal insecurities in my chapter, “Solidarity is a Verb: Teaching Development Activism on Stolen Land.” Check out their review of the book, edited by the wonderful KateContinue reading “LSE Review of Books”
Honours Information Session
In this Info Session, I walk students through the pros and cons of pursuing an Honours degree of various formats. This video is especially useful for IDS-majors at Dalhousie who are thinking about applying to the Honours program.
Solidarity is a Verb: Teaching Development Activism on Stolen Land
I am excited to be part of this important collaboration, led by Kate Schick and Claire Timperley. My chapter describes the anxieties and obligations of being an early career teacher who takes land acknowledgements seriously. It includes very honest personal reflections in the form of “external” and “internal” diaries over the course of the WinterContinue reading “Solidarity is a Verb: Teaching Development Activism on Stolen Land”
Mining The Archive of the Present: ATI/FOI for Undergraduate Research
Authors of Policing Indigenous Movements (Fernwood, 2018) Andrew Crosby and Jeffrey Monaghan sit down with Ajay Parasram to answer questions about how to use ATI/FOI Requests as part of a mixed methodology approach to quality undergraduate research. The conversation was for INTD 4401: Honours Thesis Workshop, at Dalhousie University, unceded Mi’kma’ki and was recorded onContinue reading “Mining The Archive of the Present: ATI/FOI for Undergraduate Research”
Seeing Whiteness In The Margins
My first publication with the Journal of Narrative Politics, which demanded that I put away my footnotes and get into the evocative work of story telling. This article is part of a special issue arising from ongoing conversations themed “International Relations As if People Matter” over a couple meetings of the International Studies Association.
Imperial Afterlives: Citizenship and Racial/Caste Fragility in Canada and India
Ajay Parasram and Nissim Mannathukkaren, 2021. “Imperial Afterlives: Citizenship and Racial/Caste Fragility in Canada and India” Citizenship Studies online in advance, Oct. 8. This paper looks to the historical imbrication of racial and caste supremacy with citizenship, drawing attention to the inherent coloniality of citizenship in post-imperial Canada and India. We examine the transition from explicit toContinue reading “Imperial Afterlives: Citizenship and Racial/Caste Fragility in Canada and India”
Decolonial Jam Session
In this Keynote workshop with Dr. Jon Langdon (St. FX) delivered to the Tobias Centre For Innovation in International Development, we explore the value of radical music for the method and teaching of international development studies.
Anti-Asian Racism
Interview on the subject of Anti-Asian racism during Asian Heritage Month.
Interview with Dr. Lynn Gehl
I had the honour of interviewing Dr. Lynn Gehl on the subject The Truth that Wampum Tells: My Debwewin on the Algonquin Land Claims Process published with Fernwood Publishing in 2014. Note that around the 16 minute mark I accidentally confate Mr. Justice James B. Macaulay with Thomas Babington Macaulay. The prior was relevant toContinue reading “Interview with Dr. Lynn Gehl”
Ajay Parasram 