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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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”
Safe Space For White Questions Season 3 Launch
Today we launched the third season of SSFWQ – the first episode since Frequently Asked White Questions was published last fall. Lots of great questions – the recording is available on the Fernwood Publishing YouTube channel here.
Sovereignty Beyond Eurocentricity
I wrote a short chapter of this name 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 accessibleContinue reading “Sovereignty Beyond Eurocentricity”
The Refrain of Territory: Archiving in Relief and the Politics of Post/Settler Land
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”
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 