The entire handbook is a gem. It contains a wealth of chapters that conceptualize key concepts and issues in politics and society from the perspective of the Global South. Shireen Hassim & Anna Korteweg have been amazing editors. e-elgar.com/shop/usd/handb

I'm looking forward to presenting research that builds on this work at the @esil-sedi.bsky.social conference in Berlin on September 12th. @cailesil.bsky.social

Other authors have sketched a variety of techniques of producing ignorance. In our case we highlight: insistence on uncertainty (as opposed to denial), rejection of external knowledges, over-valuing of own institutional knowledges, and a lack of effort to know more & better. 3/

New co-authored chapter alert!
What if we think of institutional ignorance as a practice and achievement rather than a failure? Using the case of the US military's responses to civilian casualty allegations as an example, we develop suggestions for researching organized ignorance. 1/

The chapter has been marinating for a while; an early draft was presented in March 2023. @helyehdoutaghi.bsky.social and Hijaab Yahya have been ownderful co-authors. Many thanks our collaborators at @airwars.bsky.social who are doing the work of documenting civilian harm against organized ignorance.

📝 Out now from Vol. 53, Issue 2 is a new article "Privileged and Other Civilians: Hierarchies of Credibility, Security, and Compensation in Afghanistan and Iraq" by @christianew.bsky.social, Helyeh Doutaghi, Hijaab Yahya, Abdul Basir Yosufi, and Leah Wilson ⤵️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

In contemporary armed conflicts, not all civilians are equal. There are steep hierarchies between local and international civilians in terms of security, compensation (if they are harmed) and credibility. Our new article in @millenjournal.bsky.social shows differential treatment of civilians. 1/

Our analysis also speaks to genocide in Palestine. In this, we honor the legacy of journalists like Hossam, who gave his life exposing the violence and the hierarchies of credibility that devalue Palestinian lives. May our work carry forward his truth./end

Rather than translating practices of unequal civilian recognition and protection into law, we should be working on recognizing and mitigating the existing inequalities that are shaped by the gendered and racialized ideologies that shape Western imperial missions in West Asia./5

The legal category of the civilian has regularly and predictably failed to protect non-European non-combatants in practice. The stratification of security, credibility, and compensation among civilians mirrors the political & epistemic dynamics of the wars in which it occurs./4

What do these practices of recognizing, compensating, believing, and protecting civilians stratified by race, gender, and proximity to Western organizations suggest about the legal status of the civilian? 3/ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Building on work on gendered & racialized imaginaries of civilianhood, we find that the epistemic work required to convince the US military that victims were in fact civilians was made easier when Western orgs (Reuters/MSF) claimed victims as employees or patients. 2/

Our article is out in @millennjournal.bsky.social, co-authored w/ @christianew.bsky.social,Hijaab, Leah & Basir. Drawing on Iraq & Afghanistan, we argue when civilians r harmed by US forces, their proximity to Western institutions shapes their credibility & compensation. 1/

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Few humans would choose to lose their life or job for what is right, but much less than that would have gone a long way here. For the latest on this case and Yale's complicity, see this @dropsitenews.com interview with Dr. Helyeh Doutaghi www.dropsitenews.com/p/exclusive-...

I think I may vomit.
I’m in shock.

One of the most prestigious legal institutions in America just suspended an International Legal Scholar, because a far right AI model analyzed her SPEECH, and deemed her a terrorist.

And Yale Law School *complied* w/the AI allegations.

A must read. Terrifying

Helyehs statement 1/4

So Yale Law essentially terminated one of their resident scholars, Helyeh Doutaghi, as a result of her Palestinian advocacy.

The way she was treated should be deeply embarrassing to Yale Law, and to the @lpeproject.bsky.social specifically: yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/03...

We are at post 9-11 levels of hysteria (with no terrorist attack) combined with 2025 surveillance and misinformation.
A scholar at Yale suspended when an AI-driven article, co-authored by humans who want to remain anonymous (doxxing is bad!!) labels her a terrorist.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/u...

This story seems almost unbelievable. Yale Law School suspended Helyeh Doutaghi, an international law scholar, because an AI-powered news site claimed she had ties to terrorists, which she denies. How is an AI-powered site able to dictate the employment status of someone at a leading university?

Yale Law School has suspended Helyeh Doutaghi, the Deputy Director of the Law and Political Economy Project and an Associate Research Scholar. The decision follows a report from an AI-powered Zionist platform that targeted her for her pro-Palestine stance and activism, labeling it as “terrorism.”

I don’t share New York Times pieces lightly but this is too wild not to share. This woman, Helyeh Doutaghi, an Iranian lawyer, was maligned by a Zionist AI run news site, and began to receive hate messages, and was suspended at a cowardly Yale that caved to the pressure. Unbelievable. Link below.

Solidarity with Helyeh Doutaghi who was fired by Yale Law School for speaking unequivocally for Palestinian liberation. Shame on her Yale colleagues for their silent cowardice and complicity. May you fall with the fascist institution.

🚨Last week Helyeh Doutaghi, a scholar in international law, was barred from Yale and put on administrative leave: ‘The decision came three days after a news site powered by artificial intelligence, published a story calling her a member of a terrorist group.’

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