ADI Publications and presentations

On 30 September, Prof Michele Grossman presented at the US Department of Defence’s Threat Lab online Social and Behavioural Sciences Summit on ‘Five Factors for Building Youth Resilience to Violent Extremism’. The date was misreported as 30 March in our 12 Oct bulletin. 

Dr Cameo Dalley‘s new book, What Now: Everyday Endurance and Social Intensity in an Australian Aboriginal Community, has been published by Berghahn Books

A/Prof Melinda Hinkson has edited a special issue of Postcolonial Studies, ‘Refiguring the postcolonial for precarious times’. The special issue is an outcome of the Heritage and Indigeneity stream/ADI sponsored symposium held in conjunction with the Institute of Postcolonial Studies in September 2018. Aside from Melinda’s introductory essay, the issue includes contributions by Tim Neale (with Mick Bourke and Amos Atkinson),  Yin Paradies, Will Smith (with Wolfram Dressler), and a critical dialogue section on Mignolo and Walsh’s On Decoloniality curated by Michele Lobo.
 
Melinda also published ‘To let things live: Anthropology, images and the breach of distance’, and ‘Stop press: Farewell to Arena Printing’ (with Guy Rundle and Simon Cooper), in Arena Quarterly #3.

Prof Ihsan Yilmaz’s book “Creating the Desired Citizen: Ideology, State and Islam in Turkey” is now being published by the Cambridge University Press. It will be available by June 2021. The book shows how historical traumas, victimhood, insecurities, anxieties, fears and siege mentality have negatively impacted on and radicalised the nation-building projects of the two competing hegemonic ideologies/regimes (Secular Nationalist Kemalism and Islamist Populist Erdoganism) in Turkey. The book also shows the significant degree of overlap between the desired, undesired citizen and tolerated citizen categories of the two regimes. Both regimes wanted to create a Sunni Muslim Turkish nation that is militarist, nationalist, ready to die for the nation, while securitising the Kurdish, Alevi, non-Muslim, leftist, liberal and practicing Muslim identities and tolerating the citizens belonging to liminal category: The Homo Diyanetus. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1108832555

On 20 October, Dr Zahid Ahmed was invited by the National Defence University of Pakistan to present a paper in the international seminar on ‘Challenges to regional stability in South Asia: A way forward’.

On 21 October, Dr Zahid Ahmed was invited by Pakistan’s University of Peshawar to speak to the participants from Afghanistan and Pakistan in its summer school on ‘Regional connectivity, economic prosperity and stability’.

Prof Shahram Akbarzadeh is invited to submit a report to the UK House of Lords International Relations and Defence Committee on Iran’s role in Afghanistan, as part of the Committee’s inquiry into UK’s policy in the region.