Publications
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Disruption by design: planetary programming in the aftermath of geopolitics (forthcoming, Winter 2022)
Invited Lead Editor and Contributor, Special Annual Forum for Review of International Studies on the ‘Disruption by Design: Planetary Programming in the Aftermath of Geopolitics.” With additional contributions from Louise Amoore and Charmaine Chua.
The Review of International Studies (RIS) hosted a pre-publication discussion forum on 5 November 2020, organized by Nisha Shah (University of Ottawa), on how design and engineering have become forms of political intervention rather than a means of political intervention, and what happens when disruption rather than good governance becomes the metric of institutional success. Five speakers sought to examine a change in politics no longer defined by governance and what is governable, but a series of unending beta-tests hedged upon the creation of new geopolitical frontiers and lifeforms. Speakers interrogated forms of authority and legitimacy being fashioned around concepts and visions of disruptive futures, rather than demonstrations of capability in the present.
Pre-recorded talks from each of the speakers were uploaded in advance of the live Q&A session. The can be viewed here.
Complicating Risk, Home and the Field: Researching Security in Spaces of Control
Forthcoming in Salter, M., C. Mutlu and P. Frowd (eds.) Research Methods in Critical Security Studies: An Introduction, 2nd Edition, Routledge.
REFLECTIONS ON ips in translation
2022. In International Political Sociology, Introduction to our Editorial tenure. With Kyle Grayson. 16(2), 1-4.
‘Welcome to Mars’: space colonization, anticipatory authoritarianism, and the labour of hope
2021. In Globalizations Special Issue on ‘Temporality, Climate Change, Global Capital and Radical Existence’ (eds. Anna M. Agathangelou & Kyle D. Killian) 18(6), 1033-1048.
WEAPONS OF MASS PARTICIPATION: SOCIAL MEDIA, VIOLENCE ENTREPRENEURS, AND THE POLITICS OF CROWDFUNDING FOR WAR
European Journal of International Relations, Vol. 25, No. 1, 2019: 86-107, 2017.
Militarization, the Gig Economy, and the Indiscernibility of the Violence Entrepreneur
In Militarization 2.0: Communication and the Normalization of Political Violence in the Digital Age. With Susan Jackson, Rhys Crilley, Ilan Manor, Catherine Baker, Modupe Oshikoya, Nick Robinson, Jutta Joachim, Andrea Schneiker and Cynthia Enloe. International Studies Review, 2020.
Zombie Doctors, Saw-Scaled Vipers and Other Incipient Swarms: Reading William Connolly in Dubai
In Entangled Humanism as a Political Project: William Connolly’s Facing the Planetary. With Anatoli Ignatov, Alexander Livingston, and William E. Connolly. Contemporary Political Theory, 2019.
Thoughts: For Sama.” Review of the film For Sama for the Hawaiʻi Council for the Humanities and Hawaiʻi.
International Film Festival ‘Film for Thought 2019: Change Makers’ Collection. November 2019.
Towards a Beirut School of Critical Security Studies
With Omar Dahi, Samer Abboud, Coralie Pison Hindawi, Waleed Hazbun, Jamil Mouawad, and Sami Hermez. Critical Studies on Security, 2018.
Facebook Bras and #digitalharems: Fantasies of Mimesis and the Transgressions of Aliaa Elmahdy and Amina Sboui
Globalizations, Special issue on Insurrectional Politics, 2015.
The Cartographic Ambiguities of HarassMap: Crowdmapping Security and Sexual Violence in Egypt
Security Dialogue, Special issue on Questioning security devices: Performativity, resistance, politics. Vol. 46, No. 4, 2015: 345-364.
In December 2010, HarassMap was launched as a Cairo-based interactive online mapping interface for reporting and mapping incidents of sexual harassment anonymously and in real time in Egypt. The project’s use of spatial information technologies for crowdmapping sexual harassment raises important questions about the use of crowdsourced mapping as a technique of global human security governance, as well as the techno-politics of interpreting and representing spaces of gendered security and insecurity in Egypt’s urban streetscape. By recoding Egypt’s urban landscape into spaces subordinated to the visual cartography of the project’s crowdsourced data, HarassMap obscures the complex assemblage that it draws together as the differentially open space of the Egyptian street – spaces that are territorialized and deterritorialized for authoritarian control, state violence, revolt, rape, new solidarities, gender reversals, sectarian tensions, and class-based mobilizations. What is at stake in my analysis is the plasticity of victimage: to what extent can attempts to ‘empower’ women be pursued at the microlevel without amplifying the similarly imperial techniques of objectifying them as resources used to justify other forms of state violence? The question requires taking seriously the practices of mapping and targeting as an interface for securing public space.
PLAYING WITH THE WORLD: THE POLITICS OF MINIATURIZATION IN THE GULF
Forthcoming in Salter M. and S. Yao (eds.), How to do Popular Culture in International Relations. Routledge.
The Human Chain Is Not About Holding Hands
Journal of Critical Globalization Studies, 2012.