Thread by @mahvishahmad

Just out! Movement Texts as Anticolonial Theory in @sociologyjnl.

Many decolonise debates in the university (here #sociology) circumvent anticolonial movements. I show how, and illustrate one way to engage movement thought through their texts.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

To illustrate how we can engage movement texts, I talk about a 1970s underground pamphlet called #Jabal. This section draws on a Teaching Tool about #Jabal that I co-authored with @mmatalpur. Check it out here.

revolutionarypapers.org/teaching-tool/…

The paper lays out my reason for co-launching @RevPapers, a transnational research collaboration investigating anticolonial text and prints as sites of Left, anti-imperial, and anti-colonial critical production.

Check out our revamped website here:

revolutionarypapers.org

It also gives some insight into why I worked with the South Asian Resource and Research Centre, a library housing 40,000 documents of Pakistan's progressive, left movements. Check out their website here.

sarrc.org.pk

Special thanks goes to Chana Morgenstern, @konibenson, Sara Kazmi, @meznaqato, @NavaroYael for all our conversations at @RevPapers and @ArchivesandRuin.

And special thanks to Ahsan Kamal, @saramsalem, @ChetanBhatt62, @jgo34 and @tariqDesai for pushing me to sharpen the paper!