International Statement of Solidarity with Decolonial Academics and Activists in France

By Paola Bacchetta (Professor, University of California, Berkeley), Azeezah Kanji (Legal Academic and Journalist, Toronto) and David Palumbo-Liu (Professor, Stanford University) | –

Earliest Signatories:

We write to express our solidarity with the scholars, activists, and other knowledge producers who are targeted by the February 2021 statements by Frédérique Vidal, France’s Minister of Higher Education, Research, and Innovation. In them she denounced “Islamo-gauchisme” (Islamo-leftism) and its “gangrene” effect on France, and called for an inquiry into France’s national research organization, the CNRS, and the university. The specific kinds of knowledge in question analyze and critique colonialism and racism, and support decolonial, anti-racist, and anti-Islamophobia projects within the academy and on the streets. Vidal’s statements show the discomfort these challenges are causing the State, and hence the desire to repress them rather than engage them.

The State’s intentions are found in the language it uses. The relatively new term “Islamo-gauchisme” reflects a much older convergence of right-wing, colonial and racist ideologies working in opposition to anti-colonial, anti-Islamophobia and anti-racism struggles.

Vidal claims that anti-colonial, decolonial and postcolonial critique, anti-racist, anti-Islamophobia, intersectionality, and decolonial feminist and queer analyses are foreign imports from the US academy.

She ignores that decolonial theory actually developed in Abya Yala (Latin America), postcolonial theory in India, and that women and queers in anti-colonial and anti-racism struggles have always thought about many relations of power together. Vidal also forgets that both postcolonial and decolonial theory are indebted to the prior work of French-speaking scholars of color such as Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, and others.

This false narrative and these acts of repression effectively remove France from a vibrant and urgent global discussion. They put faculty of color and allies producing critical scholarship on colonialism, Islamophobia, anti-Black racism, etc. – already few and marginalized – at even greater risk.

The attack on progressive and radical scholars and activists seeks at all costs to preserve “French exceptionalism” and a whitewashed image of the Republic scrubbed clean of inconvenient truths. These include the fact that France remains a colonial power (in, for example, Réunion, Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, Iles des Saintes, la Désirade, Mayotte, New Caledonia, etc), and a neocolonial one in terms of its economic, political, and military relations to former colonies.

This colonial mentality is manifest in France’s structures of governance, especially with regard to both citizens and immigrants of color, as reflected in a barrage of laws such as: the law against wearing the veil; immigration laws; the Islamophobic law against “separatism” which has already shut down the CCIF (Collective against Islamophobia in France) and threatens all forms of autonomy; the proposed “global security” bill institutionalizing mass surveillance, including by drone, and restricting publicization of police brutality; the (now-repealed) law that mandated that colonialism be taught in only one State-sanctioned manner; rights-abusive and discriminatory counterterrorism laws; and others. These measures seek to forcibly “integrate” suspect populations into subordinate roles in French society.

It is precisely the critique of this colonial history and present, and its manifestations in State racisms including Islamophobia, that the State wishes to censor and make invisible.

Elements of the White Left, including feminists without an anticolonial, anti-Islamophobia or antiracism analysis, have also been complicit in rendering colonial and racial oppression invisible, and providing ideological rationalizations for State racisms. This, too, speaks to the incoherence of the term, “Islamo-leftism.”

The repression in France is not isolated. In Brazil, Turkey, Hungary, Poland, the US, India and other places we see the rise of neoliberal, right-wing, and authoritarian governmental suppression of critical scholarship and social movements.

But wherever we find repression we also find forms of resistance networked into global chains of solidarity.

Vidal’s statement and the planned inquiry have appeared in the context of an explosion of energy in both the academy and on the streets to address colonial, racial, and economic injustice. For example, the demonstrations in defense of Adama Traoré in France and other anti-racist protests globally after the murder of George Floyd represent the kind of commitment and courage that Vidal and others are worried about. Repressive laws and inquiries will not stop this scholarship nor the movements.

As international scholars and activists, we pledge solidarity with our counterparts in France. We commit ourselves to monitoring the situation carefully, to publicizing cases globally, to inviting those facing repression and censorship to speak in our countries, to co-authoring essays with them and helping them get their work translated, to co-mentoring students and junior colleagues, and to engaging in other forms of collaboration that they desire.

Authors:

Paola Bacchetta (Professor, University of California, Berkeley)
Azeezah Kanji (Legal Academic and Journalist, Toronto)
David Palumbo-Liu (Professor, Stanford University)

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Relevant Video added by Informed Comment:

France 24 English: “France’s ‘Islamo-leftism’ row: Uproar over minister’s probe into academic research”

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The text has appeared in French in Le Nouvel Observateur:

« Nous voulons exprimer ici notre solidarité avec les universitaires français », par Angela Davis, Gayatri Spivak, Achille Mbembe…
TRIBUNE. Dans une tribune que nous publions en exclusivité, des intellectuels du monde entier, dont l’américaine Angela Davis, l’indienne Gayatri Spivak ou le camerounais Achille Mbembe, dénoncent les attaques de Frédérique Vidal.

Par Collectif
Publié le 17 mars 2021 à 16h57 Mis à jour le 18 mars 2021 à 13h23
Temps de lecture 5 min
Frédérique Vidal à l’Assemblée nationale, le 21 avril 2020. (JACQUES WITT / AFP)
Frédérique Vidal à l’Assemblée nationale, le 21 avril 2020. (JACQUES WITT / AFP)

Nous voulons ici exprimer notre solidarité avec les universitaires, activistes et d’autres producteurs de savoir, qui, en France sont visés par les déclarations faites en février 2021 par Frédérique Vidal, ministre de l’Enseignement supérieur, de la Recherche et de l’Innovation. Elle y dénonce « l’islamo-gauchisme » et son effet de « gangrène » sur la France, et appelle à une enquête au sein du CNRS et de l’université. Les travaux en question analysent et critiquent le colonialisme et le racisme, et soutiennent des projets décoloniaux, antiracistes et anti-islamophobes au sein de l’académie comme dans l’espace commun. Les déclarations de Vidal montrent l’embarras de l’État devant ces défis, et, partant, la volonté de les réprimer plutôt que de s’y intéresser.

Les intentions de l’État apparaissent dans le langage utilisé. Le terme relativement nouveau d’« islamo-gauchisme » reflète une convergence beaucoup plus ancienne d’idéologies de droite, coloniales et racistes opposées aux luttes anticoloniales, anti-islamophobes et antiracistes.

Vidal affirme que la critique anticoloniale, décoloniale et postcoloniale, antiraciste, anti-islamophobie, l’intersectionnalité, ainsi que les analyses féministes et queer décoloniales, sont des importations étrangères depuis les universités américaines.
« Race et sciences sociales » : enquête sur le débat qui déchire l’université
Une image blanchie de la République

Elle ignore que la théorie décoloniale s’est développée à Abya Yala (Amérique latine), la théorie postcoloniale en Inde, et que les femmes et les queers dans les luttes anticoloniales et antiracistes ont toujours pensé aux liens entre toutes ces relations de pouvoir. Vidal oublie également que la théorie postcoloniale et décoloniale est redevable aux travaux antérieurs d’auteurs francophones racisés et du sud, tels que Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire et d’autres.

Ce faux récit et ces actes de répression retirent effectivement la France d’un débat mondial animé et urgent. Ils soumettent les universitaires racisé.e.s – déjà peu nombreux.ses et marginalisé.e.s – qui produisent des études critiques sur le colonialisme, l’islamophobie, le racisme anti-noir, etc., ainsi que leurs allié.e.s, à des risques encore plus importants.

L’attaque contre les universitaires et activistes progressistes et radicaux cherche à tout prix à préserver « l’exceptionnalisme français » et une image blanchie de la République lavée des vérités qui dérangent. Il s’agit notamment du fait que la France reste une puissance coloniale (par exemple à la Réunion, en Guadeloupe, en Martinique, en Guyane, aux Iles des Saintes, la Désirade, Mayotte, en Nouvelle-Calédonie, etc.), et néocoloniale en termes de relations économiques, politiques et militaires avec les anciennes colonies.
Islamo-gauchisme : « Les macronistes font n’importe quoi », par Olivier Roy

Cette mentalité coloniale se manifeste dans les structures de gouvernance de la France, en particulier vis-à-vis des citoyen.ne.s et des immigré.e.s racisé.e.s, comme en témoignent des mesures comme la dissolution du CCIF (Collectif contre l’islamophobie en France), et un ensemble de lois telles que : la loi contre le port du voile ; les lois sur l’immigration ; la loi islamophobe contre le « séparatisme » qui menace toutes les formes d’autonomie ; le projet de loi en cours d’adoption sur la « sécurité globale », qui légaliserait et institutionnaliserait la surveillance de masse, y compris au moyen de drones ; la loi interdisant de filmer les brutalités policières ; la loi (maintenant abrogée) qui exigeait que le colonialisme ne soit enseigné que comme le décidait l’État ; lois antiterroristes abusives et discriminatoires ; et d’autres. Ces mesures visent à « intégrer » de force les populations suspectes dans des rôles de subordonnés au sein de la société française.
Lois répressives et enquêtes internes

C’est précisément la critique de cette histoire coloniale, de ce qui s’en perpétue, avec le racisme, et l’islamophobie, que l’État souhaite censurer et rendre invisible.

Une partie de la gauche blanche, ainsi que des féministes qui ne font aucune analyse anticoloniale, anti-islamophobe et antiraciste, sont également des complices de l’invisibilisation de l’oppression coloniale et du racisme, en fournissant des rationalisations idéologiques au racisme structurel porté également par l’État. Cela aussi montre l’incohérence du terme « islamo-gauchisme ».

La répression en France n’est pas isolée. Au Brésil, en Turquie, en Hongrie, en Pologne, aux États-Unis, en Inde et dans d’autres pays, nous assistons à la montée de la répression du savoir, des études, et de mouvements sociaux critiques par des gouvernements néolibéraux, de droite et autoritaires.
Lettre ouverte aux étudiants qui veulent lutter contre les discriminations

Mais partout où il y a de la répression, il y a également des formes de résistance en réseau avec des chaînes mondiales de solidarité.

La déclaration de Vidal et l’enquête envisagée sont apparues dans un contexte où, à la fois à l’université et dans les rues, s’est exprimée énergiquement la volonté de lutter contre l’injustice coloniale, raciale et économique. Par exemple, en France, les manifestations pour la défense d’Adama Traoré, et d’autres manifestations antiracistes dans le monde après le meurtre de George Floyd sont des formes courageuses d’engagement qui ne peuvent qu’inquiéter Vidal et tous ceux qui l’encouragent et la soutiennent. Les lois répressives et les enquêtes n’arrêteront ni cette production de savoir, ni ces recherches, ni ces mouvements.

En tant que chercheurs et activistes internationaux, nous nous engageons à être solidaires de nos homologues de France. Nous nous engageons à suivre attentivement la situation, à faire connaître les cas de répression à l’échelle mondiale, à inviter ceux qui sont confrontés à la répression et à la censure à s’exprimer dans nos pays, à co-rédiger des essais avec elles et eux et à les aider à traduire leur travail, à co-encadrer des étudiant.e.s et des jeunes collègues, et à s’engager dans d’autres formes de collaboration qu’elles et ils désirent.

Signatories as of March 20:

1. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor, Columbia University, USA
2. Gina Dent, Associate Professor, Feminist Studies, History of Consciousness, and Legal Studies. University of California, Santa Cruz
3. Angela Y Davis, Distinguished Professor Emerita, University of California, Santa Cruz
4. Robin DG Kelley, Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History, UCLA, USA
5. Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Distinguished Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies & Dean’s Professor of the Humanities, Syracuse University
6. Achille Mbembe, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (South Africa)
7. Roxane Dunbar Ortiz, Historian and author
8. Hazel V. Carby, Charles C. & Dorothea S Dilley Professor Emeritus of African American Studies, Yale University
9. Viet Thanh Nguyen, University Professor, University of Southern California
10. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Assistant Professor & Charles H. Mcilwain University Preceptor, Princeton University
11. Wael Hallaq, Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University
12. Talal Asad, Professor of Anthropology Emeritus, Graduate center, City University of New York
13. Ahdaf Soueif, Writer
14. Kamila Shamsie, Novelist and Professor of Creative Writing, University of Manchester
15. Homi K. Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University
16. Sara Ahmed, independent scholar
17. Robert Warrior, Hall Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture, University of Kansas
18. Cherrie Moraga, Poet, Playwright-Director, Educator, Activist
19. Trinh T. Minh-ha, Professor of the Graduate School, Departments of Gender & Women’s Studies and of Rhetoric, UC Berkeley
20. Walter D Mignolo, William H. Wannamaker Distinguished Professor of Romance Studies and Professor of Literature, Duke University
21. Hamid Dabashi, Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
22. Vijay Prashad Executive Director, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
23. amina wadud, National Islamic University Yogjakarta
24. Dr. Abdullahi An-Naim, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law, Emory University
25. Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Professorial Research Associate, SOAS, University of London
26. Roger Waters Musician/Activist
27. Christina Sharpe, Professor, York Univ., Toronto
28. Jin Haritaworn, Associate Professor, York University
29. Ayça Çubukçu, Associate Professor in Human Rights, London School of Economics
30. Dr Ram Puniyani, human rights defender, India
31. Nick Estes, Assistant Professor of American Studies, University of New Mexico
32. Shailja Patel, Activist, Writer. US/Kenya
33. Dina Gilio-Whitaker, MA (Coville Confederated Tribes). Lecturer, American Indian Studies, California State University, San Marcos
34. Maytha Alhassen, Historian, TV writer and producer
35. dream hampton, film-maker and writer
36. Farid Esack, Research Professor, Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Studies
37. Mishuana Goeman (Tonawanda Band of Seneca), Professor of Gender Studies and American Indian Studies IDP, UCLA
38. Ato Quayson, Doyle Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies, Stanford. Fellow, Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences
39. Jasbir Puar, Professor, Rutgers University
40. Laila Lalami, Novelist, Professor at University of California, Riverside
41. Boaventura de Sousa Santos, University of Coimbra, Portugal
42. Ronit Lentin, Associate Professor Sociology (ret), Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
43. Suchitra Vijayan, Writer, Lawyer, New York City
44. Jamille Pinheiro Dias, University of Manchester, and Belém, Brazil.
45. Alana Lentin, Associate Professor of Cultural & Social Analysis, Western Sydney University, Australia
46. Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Professor and Director, Rutgers Advanced Institute for Critical Caribbean Studies, Rutgers
47. Harsha Walia, Activist and Writer, Vancouver
48. Dr. Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi, Director and Senior Scholar, Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies, San Francisco State University
49. Dr. Ramon Grosfoguel, Department of Ethnic Studies, UC-Berkeley
50. Arun Kundnani, Writer, New York
51. Brenna Bhandar, Associate Professor, Allard Law Faculty, UBC
52. Sunera Thobani, Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia
53. Hafsa Kanjwal, Assistant Professor, Lafayette College
54. Deepa Kumar, Professor, Rutgers University, New Jersey, United States.
55. Nader Hashemi, University of Denver
56. Juliane Hammer, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, UNC Chapel Hill, USA
57. Dr. Farid Hafez, Georgetown University and Salzburg University, Department of Sociology and Political Science
58. Khaled A. Beydoun, Wayne State Law
59. Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Brown University
60. John L. Esposito, University Professor of Religion & International Affairs, Georgetown University
61. Randa Abdel-Fattah, Writer and Research Fellow, Macquarie University I
62. Kirsten Wesselhoeft, Assistant Professor, Vassar College
63. Sherene H. Razack, UCLA
64. Susan Abulhawa, novelist
65. Junaid Ahmad, Director of the Center for Islam and Decoloniality, Pakistan
66. Fatima El-Tayeb, Professor of Literature and Ethnic Studies, University of California San Diego
67. S.Sayyid, Professor, University of Leeds, UK
68. Anna Bigelow, Associate Professor, Religious Studies, Stanford
69. Cemil Aydin, Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
70. Usha Iyer, Assistant Professor, Stanford University
71. Ethel Brooks, Rutgers University
72. Rinaldo Walcott, Professor, University of Toronto
73. Catherine Walsh, Distinguished Professor and Director Doctoral Program in Latin American Cultural Studies, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar-Ecuador
74. Xamuel Bañales, Associate professor, California State University
75. Zareena Grewal, Assoc Professor, Yale University
76. Hamada Hamid Altalib, Yale University
77. Tariq Modood, Director, Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship, University of Bristol
78. Dr. Hatem Bazian, Editor, Islamophobia Studies Journal and UC Berkeley lecturer.
79. Jasmin Zine, Wilfrid Laurier University
80. AbdoolKarim Vakil, Lecturer, King’s College London, UK
81. Roberto D. Hernandez, Associate Professor, Chicana/o Studies, San Diego State University
82. Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Political Science, Carleton College
83. Jáfia Naftali Câmara, Doctoral researcher, University of Bristol
84. Cyra Akila Choudhury, Professor of Law, FIU College of Law
85. Craig Calhoun, Arizona State University
86. Sara M Saleh, Human Rights Campaigner, Writer & Poet
87. Michele Lamont, Harvard University
88. Shaunna Rodrigues, PHD Candidate, Columbia University
89. Jennifer Lena, Columbia University
90. David Smilde, Professor of Sociology and Latin American Studies, Tulane University
91. Joseph Gerteis, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota
92. Mohamed Shaid Mathee, Senior lecturer, University of Johannesburg
93. Adi Ophir, Professor Emeritus, Tel Aviv University, Visiting Professor, Brown University
94. SHAMSUL ISLAM, FORMER FACULTY UNIVERSITY OF DELHI
95. Neelima Sharma, women-therate activist, Delhi-India
96. Barnor Hesse, Associate Professor, Department of African American Studies, Northwestern University
97. Raed Rafei, PhD candidate at the University of California, Santa Cruz
98. Sabelo J Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Chair in Epistemologies of the Global South with Emphasis on Africa, University of Bayreuth, Germany.
99. Irfan Engineer, Director, Centre for the Study of Society and Secularism, India
100. Mohamed Seedat, Unisa Institute for Social and Health Sciences
101. Dr. Marina Grzinic, Professor Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
102. Reza Zia-Ebrahimi, Associate Professor of History, King’s College London
103. Dr. Tina Magazzini, Research Associate, EUI
104. Shahnaaz Suffla, University of South Africa
105. Prof Olivette Otele, University of Bristol
106. Garth Stevens, Professor and Dean of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
107. Tjaša Kancler, Associate Professor, University of Barcelona
108. Schirin Amir-Moazami, Professor of Islam in Europe, Freie Universität Berlin
109. Asli Bali, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
110. Mike Savage, Prof of Sociology, LSE
111. Nadia Fadil, Associate Professor in Anthropology, KU Leuven (Belgium)
112. Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, Professor in Global Thought, SOAS University of London
113. Dr. Jason Allen-Paisant, Lecturer in Decolonial Thought, University of Leeds, UK
114. Scott Timcke, writer
115. Myria Georgiou, Professor in Media and Communications, LSE
116. Kopano Ratele, Professor, University of South Africa
117. Tajul Islam, Iqbal Centre, University of Leeds, UK
118. Lara Sheehi, Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology, The George Washington University
119. Dr Syed Mustafa Ali, Lecturer, The Open University, UK
120. Dr MG Khan, Lecturer, Ruskin College, Oxford.
121. Dr Ismail Patel
122. Devin Atallah, Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Massachussets Boston
123. Baljeet Gill/Programme Coordinator/Ruskin College/Oxford/UK
124. Asma Afsaruddin, Professor of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, Indiana University, Bloomington
125. Laurie Brand, Robert Grandford Wright Professor of International Relations and Middle East Studies
126. Zachary Lockman, Professor, New York University
127. Dina Khoury, Professor of History and International Affairs, George Washington University
128. Miriam R. Lowi, Professor, The College of New Jersey, USA
129. Nadia Yaqub, Professor, Dept. of M.E. and Asian Studies, UNC Chapel Hill
130. Carole L. Crumley, Professor of Anthropology (Emerita), University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
131. Asli Peker, Clinical Associate Professor, New York University
132. Lawrence Grossberg, Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
133. Allison De Marco, Advanced Research Scientist, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
134. Sherryl Kleinman, Emerita Professor of sociology, UNC-Chapel Hill
135. Joel Beinin, Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History, Emeritus, Stanford University
136. Eve Troutt Powell, Professor, University of Pennsylvania
137. Jesica Siham Fernández, Assistant Professor, Ethnic Studies, Santa Clara University (USA)
138. Mezna Qato, University of Cambridge
139. Juan Cole, University of Michigan
140. Jane Hathaway, Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of History, Ohio State University
141. Aslı Iğsız, Associate Professor, New York University
142. Kabir Tambar, Associate Professor, Stanford University
143. Kelda Jamison, Stanford University
144. Don Nonini, Professor of Anthropology, UNC Chapel Hill
145. Lizabeth Roemer, Professor and Chair of Psychology, University of Massachusetts Boston
146. Hồng-Ân Trương, Associate Professor, UNC-Chapel Hill
147. Radhika Balakrishnan, Rutgers University
148. Professor Ali Rattansi. City University of London
149. Jonathan Rosa, Associate Professor of Education and Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University
150. Sharika Thiranagama, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Stanford
151. Sylvia Yanagisako, Edward Clark Crossett Professor of Humanistic Studies, Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University
152. Jose David Saldivar, Leon Sloss, Jr. Professor, Stanford University
153. Lisa Lowe, Professor, Yale University
154. Neha Vora, Associate Professor, Lafayette College
155. Atiya Husain, University of Richmond
156. Françoise Lionnet, Research Professor, Harvard University
157. S Faizi, Ecologist, India
158. Frances Thirlway, Research Fellow, University of York
159. Naomi Waltham-Smith, Associate Professor, University of Warwick
160. Humeira Iqtidar, King’s College London
161. Lamia Irfan, Postdoctoral research fellow, Birkbeck University of London
162. Anil Eklavya, Researcher
163. Bandana Purkayastha, Professor of Sociology and Asia and Asian American Studies, University of Connecticut.
164. Debashree Mukherjee, Columbia University
165. Karen Suyemoto, Professor, Psychology and Asian American Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston
166. Rajiv Gupta Former Professor and head department of Sociology University of Rajasthan Jaipur India
167. John Reynolds, Associate Professor, National University of Ireland – Maynooth
168. Laura Betancur-Restrepo, Associate Professor, Facultad de derecho, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
169. Amar Bhatia, Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
170. Sujith Xavier, Associate Professor University of Windsor
171. Miriam Grossi, Full Professor at Federal University of Santa Catarina – Brazil
172. María del Rosario Acosta Lopez, Professor, Universiry of California- Riverside and International Chair of Contemporary Philosophy at University of Paris 8
173. Shu-mei Shih, Edward W. Said Professor of Comparative Literature, UCLA
174. Usha Natarajan, Edward W Said Fellow, Columbia University
175. Oliver D’Souza, Editor, Peoples Post India
176. Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín, PhD Student – Graduate institute, Geneva
177. J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Professor of American Studies, Wesleyan University
178. Shireen Hamza, PhD Candidate, History of Science, Harvard
179. Steven Salaita, USA
180. Nicole R. Fleetwood, Professor of American Studies and Art History, Rutgers University
181. Rohan D’Souza, Associate Professor, Kyoto University
182. Karen Kuo, Associate Professor, School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University
183. Neshat Quaiser, centre de sciences humaines, former teacher of sociology
184. Sarah Hayes-Skelton, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Massachusetts Boston
185. Minoo Moallem, Professor, University of California, Berkeley
186. Glen Coulthard (Yellowknives Dene), University of British Columbia
187. Jaspal Singh Sidhu , writer
188. Abdourahman Waberi, Writer, Professor, George Washington University
189. Dr. Philipp Krämer, Acting Professor of Linguistics, Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
190. Caroline Jacquet, docteure en science politique
191. Kevin Thomas, Assistant Professor of Multicultural Branding, Marquette University
192. Claudy Delne independent researcher/author
193. Michael Baum, Professor, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa
194. Arianne Des Rochers, Assistant Professor of Translation, University of Moncton, Canada
195. Paulina Peñaherrera – Red de mujeres con discapacidad
196. Maël Voegeli, MD, PhD, Independant Researcher France-India
197. Sergio Rigoletto, Associate Professor, University of Oregon
198. Kitty Kelly Epstein, PhD, professor at Holy Names University, host of radio show on KPFA FM
199. Veronica Gomez-Temesio, research fellow, University of Copenhagen
200. Allison Loconto, Research Scientist, INRAE France, member of the ISA Executive Committee
201. Davud Cobham, professor of economics, Heriot-Watt Uni, UK
202. Dr Francesca Cavallaro, Research Fellow, UCL Institute of Child Health
203. Catherine Cobham Lecturer in Arabic, University of St Andrews
204. Welliton Caixeta Maciel, Anthropologist and Ph.D in Law candidate, University of Brasilia (UnB), Brazil.
205. Mamadou Diouf, Leitner Family Professor of African Studies and History, Columbia University, New York
206. Tiago Afonso / professeur Universidade Lusófona do Porto, réalisateur.
207. Giulia Bonanno, PhD Student, Sapienza University of Rome
208. Jill Jarvis, Assistant Professor, French, Yale University
209. Raquel Schefer, post-doctoral researcher, University of Lisbon, NOVA University of Lisbon, University of the Western Cape
210. Antoine Traisnel, Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature and English, University of Michigan
211. Sandro Loi, PhD Student – University of Geneva
212. Joan Grandjean, Université de Genève
213. Omar Berrada, writer and adjunct professor, The Cooper Union
214. Christophe Bresoli, Lecturer, University of Constance, Germany
215. Morgane Burnel, University Grenoble-Alpes
216. Pascal Menoret, Associate Professor, Brandeis University
217. Oumelbanine Zhiri , Professor, University of California San Diego
218. Imène Ghernati, Assistant Professor, University of San Francisco
219. Alba Rodríguez-García, Enseignante-chercheure, Université Gaston Berger, Sénégal
220. Fabiana EX-SOUZA, PhD Student, University of Paris 8
221. Daniel A. Arboleda, PhD student – Aix-Marseille University
222. Tania El Khoury, Director, Center for Human Rights & The Arts, Bard College
223. Bora Erden, Researcher, SITU Research
224. Laura Aristizabal Arango, PhD Candidate, Université de Liège, Belgium
225. Claske Dijkema, Post-doc, swisspeace, University of Basel
226. Michael L. Thomas, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Susquehanna University
227. Dr Eloïse Bertrand, Early Career Fellow, University of Warwick
228. Philippe Pirotte, adjunct senior curator at UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Prof Art History and Curatorial Studies Städelschule Frankfurt
229. Noemie Arazi, Université Libre de Bruxelles
230. Soumaya Mestiri, Professor, University of Tunis, Tunisia
231. Edgar Schmitz, Reader in Art, Goldsmiths, University of London
232. Dr. Simon Sheikh, Programme Director, MFA Curating, Goldsmiths, University of London
233. Isobel Harbison, Lecturer, Goldsmiths, University of London
234. Ros Gray, Senior Lecturer, Goldsmiths, University of London
235. Meriem Agrebi, PhD, University of Carthage (TN)
236. Mehdi ALIOUA, Associate Professor, Université Internationale de Rabat, Morocco
237. Nancy Adajania, Cultural Theorist and Curator, Bombay
238. Mosbah Salah Université de Tunis- Tunisai
239. Dr Clémentine Deliss, Associate Curator, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
240. Meryem Belkaid, Assistant Professor, Bowdoin College
241. Shela Sheikh, Lecturer, Goldsmiths, University of London
242. Candice Breitz, Professor, HBK Braunschweig, Germany
243. Guy Halsall, Professor of History, University of York
244. Matthew Fuller, Professor of Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London
245. Dilyana Mincheva, Assistant Professor, McMaster University
246. Amel grami professor of gender studies. University of manouba tunisia
247. Howard Rechavia-Taylor, PhD Candidate, Columbia University
248. Dennis Arnold, Associate Professor, University of Amsterdam
249. Amahl Bishara, Tufts University
250. Walner Osna, PhD student, University of Ottawa
251. Daniel Moshenberg, Associate Professor, George Washington University
252. Pierre-Jean Clausse, King’s College London
253. Jean Beaman, Associate Professor, University of California-Santa Barbara
254. Philip Savage, Associate Professor, McMaster University, Canada
255. Michael Newman, Professor of Art Writing, Goldsmiths, University of London
256. Sam Jones, PhD Student, Yale University
257. Ximena Gonzalez Broquen, Researcher Centro de Estudio de Transformaciones Sociales IVIC- VENEZUELA
258. Grant Kester, Professor, University of California
259. Ricardo Dominguez, Associate Professor, UCSD
260. Maia Nichols, PhD student, UC San Diego
261. Tina Catania, PhD Candidate, Syracuse University
262. Dakota Bailey, M.A. Candidate/TA, Syracuse University
263. Zohra Triki, University of Tunis, TUNISIA
264. Magalie Civil, PhD Student, University of Ottawa
265. Luca Muscarà, Università del Molise & CNR Ismar
266. Sami Bargaoui, Professor, University of La Manouba, Tunisia
267. GOD’S ARM GLOBAL FOUNDATION; Amb. Adetunji Temitope Felix-CrownReawake
268. Elena dell’Agnese, Professor, Università di Milano-bicocca
269. Massimiliano Tabusi, Geographer, Associate Professor, Università per Stranieri di Siena, Italy
270. Lia Séval, tutor, Istituto Marangoni Paris
271. Filippo Celata, Professor of geography, University of Rome La Sapienza
272. Valentina Albanese, Researcher, University of Pisa
273. Doris Wastl-Walter, Prof.em. University of Berne, Switzerland
274. Pamela Sertzen, PhD Candidate, Syracuse Unviersity
275. Giorgia Riconda, MA Sociology, University of Milano Bicocca
276. Anthony Kwame Harrison, Edward S. Diggs Professor in Humanities, Virginia Tech