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”
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A Gift of a Samosa
Yesterday, I was identified by a worker at one of my fav Indian take-out places here in Halifax as having a Hindu name, which shouldn’t be a very surprising thing given that I have one of the most common Hindu names imaginable. (If you ask a Hindu if their name is Ajay, if they sayContinue reading “A Gift of a Samosa”
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”
Interview with CBC Mainstreet on AI, decolonial research and pedagogy
I had the chance to discuss my syllabus policy related to AI in social sciences this afternoon with CBC Radio’s Mainstreet. https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-37-mainstreet-ns/clip/16009253-students-avoid-using-ai-research-dalhousie-prof-says
Engaging Capitalism and Slavery as Decolonial Text
Ajay Parasram, 2019. “Engaging Capitalism and Slavery as Decolonial Text” in Reading the Post War Future: Textual Turning Points from 1944 edited by John Munro and Kirrily Freeman. London: Bloomsbury, 113 – 128.
Ajay Parasram 