Faisal Al-Asaad
Research Assistant
School of Social and Cultural Studies
Teaching Fellow SACS
School of Social and Cultural Studies
Qualifications
BA(Hons), MA (Auck), PhD (Melb)
Research Specialties
Social and political theory, settler colonialism, imperialism, race and racial capitalism
Publications
Refereed Journal Articles
2022, The revenge economy and the problem of unpayability (review of Max Haiven’s Revenge Capitalism: The ghosts of empire, the demons of capital, and the settling of unpayable debt [2020]). Counterfutures, 13, 132-148.
2021, Reading our ‘destiny in the world we have made’: inscriptions and incantations of race in the wake of the Christchurch massacres. Counterfutures, 11, 53-77.
(with A. Rata) 2019, Whakawhanaungatanga as a Māori approach to Indigenous-settler of colour relationship building. New Zealand Population Review, 45, 211-233.
Book Chapters
2022, ‘Race is colonialism speaking’: notes on the colonial imagination. In Lopesi, L., Sankar, A., & Tecun, A. (Eds.) Towards a Local Grammar of Race in Aotearoa New Zealand. Auckland: BWB, 104-115.
2021, Contingent being from absolute loss. In S. Barber & M. Davidson (Eds.), Through that which separates us. Ōtautahi: The Physics Room, 51-59.
Other Recent Publications
2023, The Arabian Nights and the pre-history of commercial capitalism. Borderlines Journal.
2022, On debilitation and the political economy of the accident. Overland Literary Journal.
2021, ‘Except by chance’: The Christchurch Inquiry. Arena, 5, 13.
2021, ‘Islamo-leftism’, or the spectre of the Muslim Left. Overland Literary Magazine.
2021, Support communities to tackle white supremacy, not the agencies that failed us over Christchurch. The Guardian.
2019, Patterns of History. New Zealand Geographic, 157, 28.
2019, Exterminating the other: the Christchurch massacre, Islamophobia, and settler colonialism, Arena, 159, 5.
Conference Papers/Panels
2022 – ‘On debilitation and the political economy of accident compensation’ (paper) – Historical Materialism Conference, Melbourne Trades Hall.
2018 – ‘Migration and Settler Colonialism: Communities, Relations, Potentialities ’ (panel) – HE RĀKAU TAU MATUA: Pathways, Diversity and Inclusion Conference, Massey University, Auckland.
2016 – ‘The settler reality beneath the multicultural ‘swamp’’ (paper) – Space, Race, Bodies II: Sovereignty and Migration in a Carceral Age, University of Otago, Dunedin.
2014 – ‘Islamophobia and the postracial’ (panel) – Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association (ACRWSA) Conference: the State of Race II, Brisbane.
2012 – ‘Covering the Arab Spring: media representations in the neo-colonial enterprise’ (paper) – The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) Conference, University of Queensland, Brisbane.
Recent Talks/Lectures
Invited Talk: ‘Naming the Beast: Towards a Grammar of Race’ hosted by the Verb Writers and Readers Festival (November, 2022)
Guest Lecture: ‘Articulations of law, settler colonialism, and the war on terror’ presented to LAWGENRL 459: Special Topic: Race and the Law, University of Auckland (August, 2022)
Invited Talk: ‘States of the body produced by injury: race and the biopolitics of debility’ hosted by the Critical Theory Network, University of Auckland (March, 2022)
Guest Lecture: ‘Being Muslim in Aotearoa’ presented to SOCIOL 101: ‘Understanding Aotearoa/New Zealand’, University of Auckland (October, 2020)