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Pluriversal Sovereignty

I haven’t updated this website in an embarrassingly long time, but I’m pleased to be share that my book “Pluriversal Sovereignty and the State: Imperial Encounters in Sri Lanka” was published by Manchester University Press in 2023, and the softcover edition is now out as of June 2025. The book was awarded the Sussex InternationalContinue reading “Pluriversal Sovereignty”

DFA Motions on Gaza, including BDS

I’m happy to share and enter into the public record that the Dalhousie Faculty Association has now passed all three motions my colleagues and I (many many more than who are listed as movers and seconders in the motions). Here is the text of the three motions, for any other organizations that would like toContinue reading “DFA Motions on Gaza, including BDS”

Convocation Address, Dal Faculty of Arts & Social Science May 28, 2024

I was honoured to be invited to address the graduating class of 2024, including bringing greetings from the student encampment of Al Zeitoun University on the Dalhousie quad. Below I post the text of my speech, and a link to the YouTube recording of the full convocation. The address falls between time 2:20 – 2:32,Continue reading “Convocation Address, Dal Faculty of Arts & Social Science May 28, 2024”

Colouring In “The Pearl Fishers”

I’ve been working with a small group of people trying to workshop the problematic aspects Bizet’s “other” opera, “The Pearl Fishers” for the last couple of months. I’ll be giving some pre-show lectures ahead of the Vancouver Opera’s presentation this month (Oct. 2022) of the piece, and wrote this short essay for their website. CheckContinue reading “Colouring In “The Pearl Fishers””

Racial Fragility: A Problem of White Supremacy

I wrote a short chapter for the Open Source book, edited by P. Ballamingie & D. Szanto ,Showing Theory to Know Theory Understanding Social Science Concepts through Illustrative Vignettes. Showing Theory Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.22215/sktk/pa45 The purpose of the book is to take complex ideas in social science theory and make it accessible in creative ways.Continue reading “Racial Fragility: A Problem of White Supremacy”