Faisal Al-Asaad
Qualifications
BA(Hons), MA (Auck), PhD (Melb)
Research Specialties
Social and political theory, settler colonialism, imperialism, race and racial capitalism
Publications
Refereed Journal Articles
2026. Cancer and Capitalism: Towards a Critical Sociological Agenda. Sociology Lens. First published: 02 April 2026 https://doi.org/10.1111/johs.70043
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
Forthcoming 2025, Settler colonialism, race, and international law. In M. al Attar & C. Smith (Eds). Emancipating International Law: Confronting the Violence of Racialised Boundaries. Oxford University Press (accepted)
Forthcoming 2025, On theory and praxis in migration studies and settler colonial critique. In A. Piperoglou & F. Ricatti (Eds.) Researching Migration on Indigenous Lands: Challenges, Reflections, Pathways. IMISCOE-SPRINGER Series. (accepted)
2022, ‘Race is colonialism speaking’: notes on the colonial imagination. In Lopesi, L., Sankar, A., & Tecun, A. (Eds.) Towards a 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
2024, Reflections on the ‘Global Student Intifada’. Ebb Magazine.
2024, Key Concept: Elimination in Settler Colonialism. Critical Legal Thinking.
2024, Temporalities of Revolt. Allegra Lab: Anthropology for Radical Optimism.
2024, The ‘crisis’ in the Red Sea and paying tribute to the empire. Overland Literary Journal.
2023, The Arabian Nights and the pre-history of commercial capitalism. Borderlines Journal.
Conference Papers/Panels
2024 – ‘Settler capitalism and dollar imperialism’ (paper) – Dollar Hegemony, State Sovereignty and International Order: An International Workshop, University of New South Wales.
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.
Lectures & Talks
Guest lecture: ‘Racial capitalism’ presented to SPOL316: Intersectionality, Social Policy, and Change, Victoria University of Wellington (September, 2024)
Panel discussion: ‘The student fight for Palestine’ hosted by the International Socialist Organisation, Victoria University of Wellington (July, 2024)
Guest Lecture series: ‘Power in the sociological imagination’ presented to SOSC102: Doing Sociology, Victoria University of Wellington (September, 2023)
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)