Leftist-Islamist cross-ideological opposition and cooperation in Morocco3rd Apr 2024The author thanks the Garda Henkel Foundation's Security, Society and the State research programme for its financial support in writing this blog post. In 2019, the then vice-president of the National Council of the Moroccan Islamist ‘Justice and...Read More
Call for Papers: State Islam and Authoritarian Rule20th Mar 2024State Islam and Authoritarian Rule: Comparing Control Over Religious Institutions in Muslim-majority states
December 2024
Lancaster University
Neil Russell and Simon Mabon
Scholars have detailed how authoritarian regimes utilise state institutions to...Read More
Critical Approaches to State and Sovereignty: Part 5 (Uysal)15th Jan 2024The State, exception and Turkey
Gönenç Uysal
Lecturer in International Political Economy, Lancaster University.
g.uysalwhittingham@lancaster.ac.uk
There is a burgeoning academic interest in the notion of exception to discuss the state and its...Read More
Critical Approaches to State and Sovereignty: Part 4 (Mabon)11th Dec 2023Re-Imaging Sovereignty and the State
“We are at war with one another; a battlefront runs through the whole of society, continuously and permanently, and it is this battlefront that puts us all on one side or the other. There is no such thing as...Read More
Critical Approaches to State and Sovereignty: Part 3 (Teti)7th Dec 2023Simulacra of Sovereignty and Statehood: The Biopolitics of Deferral, Simulation and Subalternity
Andrea TetiDepartment of Political and Communication Sciences (DISPC)
University of Salerno, Italy
Email: gteti@unisa.it
The...Read More
Critical Approaches to State and Sovereignty: Part 2 (Delatolla)4th Dec 2023Colonialism and the State
Andrew Delatolla, University of Leeds
The modern state as a concept is elusive; just when you think you have some formulation, some definition, or some working theoretical grounding, the rug is pulled out from...Read More
Critical Approaches to State and Sovereignty: Part 1 (Baumann)28th Nov 2023Sovereignty and international political economy: The Middle East’s role in the uneven geography of money
(This contribution is part of a SEPAD report into the interplay of state and sovereignty)
Sovereignty concerns not just security but also economy....Read More
كلمة الأب.. كلمة الرب26th Oct 2023لطالما كتبتُ من خلال قصائدي عن قضايانا اليومية الواقعية كنساء وعني أنا كإمرأة, لقد سخّرتُ ملَكتي الأدبية من أجل ذلك, بكل ما تحمله حياتنا...Read More