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I am transnational, multigenerational byproduct of empire and this is central to my research and teaching. Working broadly around the theme of the colonial present, I study structural forms of violence (e.g. race, caste, class, patriarchy) rooted or exacerbated through imperial encounters that have been sanitized of their colonial histories and normalized in the present day. At the moment, I have three primary areas of research:

• The first is a book on the subject pluriversal sovereignty, focusing on 19^th century Sri Lanka and its entanglements as part of the British empire
• The second concerns settler-colonial studies and decolonial options grounded in life as an immigrant to 惭颈鈥檏尘补鈥檏颈听.This work involves recent and in-progress writing analyzing citizenship as a mode of colonization, as well as pluriversal ethics and values associated with taking Indigenous sovereignty seriously.
• The third is a four-year SSHRC Insight Grant funded project studying experiences of racialization of Asian international students to Canadian universities, where I work as the Co-Investigator and project lead for the Halifax case study.

I am cross-appointed to the Departments of International Development Studies, History, and Political Science and am interested in working with graduate students interested in similar and related themes. I am also a Founding Fellow at the MacEachen Institute of Public Policy and Governance听 (2019 鈥� 2021) and served as the Chair and Program Chair of the 听of the International Studies Association (2019 鈥� 2020). I teach courses on the colonial foundations of development studies and the state, M.K. Gandhi, postcolonial politics, and activism. In 2020/2021 I will be teaching:

• INTD 听/听: International Development Studies Honours Thesis Seminar
• INTD 2001: 3-week module听on (neo)colonialism and development
• HIST : Empire, War, and Resistance in Sri Lanka (Also an IDS-Approved class)
• HIST : Becoming The State (Also an IDS-Approved class)

Academic Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Ajay Parasram, 2019. 鈥�鈥� Studies in Political Economy 100/2: 194 鈥� 207. Doi: 10.1080/07078552.2019.1646457

鈥淓苍驳补驳颈苍驳 Capitalism and Slavery as Decolonial Text鈥� in John Munro and Kirrily Freeman (eds) 听. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 113 鈥� 128.

With Jean Michel Montsion. 鈥�鈥� Postcolonial Studies 21/8(2018), 154 鈥� 171.

鈥淗unting the State of Nature: Race and Ethics in Postcolonial International Relations鈥� in Brent J. Steele and Eric Heinze (eds) . New York: Routledge, 2018 102 鈥� 115

With Lisa Tilley. 鈥淕lobal Environmental Harm, Internal Frontiers, and Indigenous Protective Ontologies鈥� in Robbie Shilliam and Olivia Rutazibwa (eds) 听. New York: Routledge,2018. 300 鈥� 315.

鈥淥rbits of Influence: The Sino-Indian Waltz in South/Southeast Asian New Regionalism,鈥� in Huhua Cao and Jeremy Paltiel (eds), F听.Beijing: Springer Publishing, 2016

听鈥�听,鈥� Caribbean Journal of International Relations & Diplomacy 2/4(2014): 51, 79

鈥�,鈥澨�Geopolitics听17/4(2012):听 902-925.

Academic Blogs and Podcasts

With Bob Huish, 鈥淐olonialism and Neocolonialism in International Development Studies.鈥� s, July 11, 2019.

鈥�听鈥� Face2Face Podcast with David Peck, episode 378. Recorded April 27, 2018 at the University of Toronto.

听鈥�听鈥� E-International Relations听July 25, 2017.

听鈥�听鈥� Symposium on The Black Pacific: Anti-Colonial Struggles and Oceanic Connections by Robbie Shilliam. The Disorder of Things: For The Relentless Criticism of All Existing Conditions. Feb. 1, 2016

Videos

- June 10, 2020. Faculty of Arts and Social Science Preview Day, AV俱乐部.听

鈥� May 6, 2020 hosted by the Canada Research Chair in Global and International Studies & the New Brunswick Media Coop, online.

Strategies for Dismantling Racial Fragility in Public Institutions 鈥� Jan 27, 2020 hosted by the MacEachen Institute for Public Policy and Governance
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鈥溾�� - Jan 18, 2017 President Trump, Now What? Public Panel hosted by the Dean of FASS, AV俱乐部.

鈥溾�� 鈥� March 9, 2016, Carleton University, Ottawa.

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Select Recent Media Publications

听鈥�鈥� Trinidad Guardian Sun. Dec. 1, 2019.

听鈥� 听鈥� The Conversation Oct. 22, 2019.

鈥�听鈥� Richochet Oct. 20, 2019.

听鈥�听鈥� Trinidad & Tobago Guardian Oct. 19, 2019

听鈥�听鈥� The Conversation Oct. 16, 2019

鈥�鈥� New Brunswick Media Coop July 12, 2019

听鈥�e听鈥� The Nova Scotia Advocate Nov. 15, 2018.

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