Shakeel Anjum is a senior Assistant Professor at the IILM School of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. He has been associated with the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, The University of Edinburgh as a RACE. ED Postdoctoral Fellow. Dr. Anjum is a Jean Genet Scholar and his areas of interest are Structures of Feeling, Love, Sovereignty, Radical intellectual traditions of Decoloniality, Psychoanalysis, Philosophy of History, Semiology of Black Radicalism and the Palestinian Revolutionary Practice. Besides publications in peer reviewed journals, he is also the author of The Politics of Space and the Question of Palestine.
Qualification
- PhD – Global Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- PostDoc – Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, The University of Edinburgh
Selected Research Works
- 2021 Review Article (Co-Author). William Chacko Jacob’s For God or Empire. Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies, 5, 1 (2021), McGill University, Canada
- 2018 Politics of Space and the Question of Palestine (Book, 2018), Adroit Publishers, New Delhi
- 2016 Geo-graphical Conditions: Memory, Time, and Rift, Indian Journal of Politics and International Relations, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2016
- 2015 Jean Genet: Flanerie, Mimesis and Journalism, Summerhill: IIAS Review, Vol. XXI, No. 1 (Summer 2015).
- 2014 Everyday Resistance (Book Review) Hardnews Magazine December 2014 issue (Print).
Selected Conferences
- 2024 Invited Talk- Histories of Love, Longing and Desire, Department of History, LSR, University of Delhi.
- 2024 Colloquium Panelist— Political Queer: Pinkwashing and Homonationalism, Centre for Studies in Gender and Sexuality, Ashoka University, Sonipat.
- 2023 Co-organized Susan Manning workshop with Dr. Thomas Metcalf (Junior Anniversary Fellow, Institute for the Advanced Studies in Humanities, The University of Edinburgh) on Notation, Decolonial Resistance, and the Political Sovereignty of ‘Late Liberalism’ | IASH with Prof. Elizabeth Povinelli (Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University); Nadia Abu El-Haj (Ann Whitney Olin Professor, Departments of Anthropology at Barnard College: Columbia University); Morag Grant (Chancellor’s Fellow, Reid School of Music)
- 2023 Paper Presentation (March 8-9) “Revolutionary Surgeons of the Political” in Decolonial Thinking and Revolutionary Events, Goldsmiths, University of London, London.
- 2021 “Jean Genet, the Blacks and the Palestinians” (Paper presented at Millennium Journal, London School of Economics, annual conference, 2021, 22nd-24th October)
- 2020 “Jean Genet and the Metaphors of Pharmaceutical Reprieve” (Paper presented at Millennium Journal, London School of Economics, 2020 annual conference)
