Sherif Abdelkarim
Biographic Data
| ID | 1055170 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sherif Abdelkarim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sherif |
| FAMILY NAME | Abdelkarim |
| SIGNATURE | ABDELKARIM S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Grinnell College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7617-087X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Way of the Superbious Man: Alexander to Aristotle and the Riddle of the Letter
Space-making ‘after rights’: Carcerality, rights-claims, and the practice of freedom
The paper examines the capacity to act in counter-hegemonic human rights approaches. It concerns non-liberal subjectivities like the incarcerated person that are inconceivable in their action and are assumed to be lacking in autonomy. Counter-hegemonic human rights scholars have addressed the contributions of excluded subjectivities and decolonial struggles in shaping the emancipatory function of human rights. Their scholarship also alludes to th…
A Roundtable Conversation: Feminist Collaborative Ethos in International Law
This roundtable discussion focuses on the collective commitment and the praxis of a feminist collaborative ethos in international law to imagine and centre alternative futures in the field. This discussion took place as part of the virtual workshop ‘International Law Dis/Oriented: Queer Legacies, and Queer Futures Workshop’ from which this special issue emerged. In this transcript of the roundtable, Shaimaa Abdelkarim, Farnush Ghadery, and Rohini…
Chaucer’s Amoral Lyrics
Scholarship on Chaucer’s “Boethian lyrics” continues to show the discrepancy between their moral and political ambiguities on one hand and the fixed precepts of their source text, De consolatione philosophiae , by Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (d. 524), on the other. While Chaucer’s “The Former Age,” “Fortune,” “Truth,” “Gentilesse,” and “Lak of Stedfastnesse” revive topics first raised in the sixth-century treatise, they trade philosophy’s …
Decolonising the Curriculum in International Law: Entrapments in Praxis and Critical Thought
Calls to decolonise the curriculum gain traction across the academe. To a great extent, the movement echoes demands of the decolonisation era itself, a period from which academics draw both impetus and legitimacy. In this article, we examine the movement’s purchase when applied to the teaching of international law. We argue that the movement reinvigorates debates about the origins of international law, centring its violent foundations as well as …
This land is your land: Naturalization in England and Arabia, 500–1000
Sīrah
Sīrah Sherif Abdelkarim (bio) Sīrah (pl. siyar) means path in Arabic and refers to a character's behavior, history, or biography.1 The genre that goes by the same name is just as far-reaching and includes romances, biographies, and something between history and fantasy. Subjects include prophets, kings, commanders, and cities, and registers range from high to low style, erring on the side of the vernacular. On paper, so to speak, most siyar—espec…
Decolonising the Curriculum in International Law: Entrapments in Praxis and Critical Thought
Calls to decolonise the curriculum gain traction across the academe. To a great extent, the movement echoes demands of the decolonisation era itself, a period from which academics draw both impetus and legitimacy. In this article, we examine the movement’s purchase when applied to the teaching of international law. We argue that the movement reinvigorates debates about the origins of international law, centring its violent foundations as well as …
Sīrah
Sīrah Sherif Abdelkarim (bio) Sīrah (pl. siyar) means path in Arabic and refers to a character's behavior, history, or biography.1 The genre that goes by the same name is just as far-reaching and includes romances, biographies, and something between history and fantasy. Subjects include prophets, kings, commanders, and cities, and registers range from high to low style, erring on the side of the vernacular. On paper, so to speak, most siyar—espec…
This land is your land: Naturalization in England and Arabia, 500–1000
Chaucer’s Amoral Lyrics
Scholarship on Chaucer’s “Boethian lyrics” continues to show the discrepancy between their moral and political ambiguities on one hand and the fixed precepts of their source text, De consolatione philosophiae , by Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (d. 524), on the other. While Chaucer’s “The Former Age,” “Fortune,” “Truth,” “Gentilesse,” and “Lak of Stedfastnesse” revive topics first raised in the sixth-century treatise, they trade philosophy’s …
Decolonising the Curriculum in International Law: Entrapments in Praxis and Critical Thought
Calls to decolonise the curriculum gain traction across the academe. To a great extent, the movement echoes demands of the decolonisation era itself, a period from which academics draw both impetus and legitimacy. In this article, we examine the movement’s purchase when applied to the teaching of international law. We argue that the movement reinvigorates debates about the origins of international law, centring its violent foundations as well as …
Space-making ‘after rights’: Carcerality, rights-claims, and the practice of freedom
The paper examines the capacity to act in counter-hegemonic human rights approaches. It concerns non-liberal subjectivities like the incarcerated person that are inconceivable in their action and are assumed to be lacking in autonomy. Counter-hegemonic human rights scholars have addressed the contributions of excluded subjectivities and decolonial struggles in shaping the emancipatory function of human rights. Their scholarship also alludes to th…
A Roundtable Conversation: Feminist Collaborative Ethos in International Law
This roundtable discussion focuses on the collective commitment and the praxis of a feminist collaborative ethos in international law to imagine and centre alternative futures in the field. This discussion took place as part of the virtual workshop ‘International Law Dis/Oriented: Queer Legacies, and Queer Futures Workshop’ from which this special issue emerged. In this transcript of the roundtable, Shaimaa Abdelkarim, Farnush Ghadery, and Rohini…
The Way of the Superbious Man: Alexander to Aristotle and the Riddle of the Letter
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Byzantine Studies and History (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works)