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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”

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.

The Anti-Colonial Revolution of the 2020s

Ajay Parasram, 2021. “The Anti Colonial Revolution of the 2020s” in Letters From New Brunswick’s Future edited by Daniel Tubb, Abram Lutes, and Susan O’Donnell. Woodstock: Chapel Street Editions.

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”

Anti-Asian Racism

Interview on the subject of Anti-Asian racism during Asian Heritage Month.

On the Jan. 6 2021 Insurrection

Interview on the significance of this the MAGA riot in the US capital and the politics of race within the policing response.

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”

Strategies for Dismantling Racial Fragility In Public Institutions

I organized and moderated this public panel following a public policy roundtable session as part of my work with the MacEachen Institute. The insights from Professor Cristina Rojas, Professor Alex Khasnabish, Dr. Gaynor Watson-Creed, and Dr. Rachel Zellers helped to catalyze and fuel much work on the question in the years following this roundtable.

Pathological White Fragility and the Canadian Nation

Ajay Parasram, 2019. “Pathological White Fragility and the Canadian Nation” Studies in Political Economy 100/2: 194 – 207. We are at a critical moment when we must confront the relationship between racial stress and white supremacy in order to provide tools and education to combat the radicalization of young white men in Canada. White fragility insulates structuralContinue reading “Pathological White Fragility and the Canadian Nation”