Maisam Alomar
Biographic Data
| ID | 905388 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maisam Alomar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maisam |
| FAMILY NAME | Alomar |
| SIGNATURE | ALOMAR M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Toward a Collective Undertaking of Self-Abolition
This article takes up the call to witness, reckon, and contemplate (the possibility of) solidarity by reading various expressions of and meditations on Black-Palestinian solidarity, with a particular focus on the response to the 2023–24 military assault on Gaza, to show first that key moments of “transnational solidarity” have helped push the “work” of solidarity, and that of liberation more generally, away from analogy, reciprocity, and appeals …
“This Isn’t the South Bronx”
This article takes up the issue of substance use disorder, arguing that the discourses surrounding the 1980s crack cocaine epidemic and the present-day opioid epidemic rely on similarly racialized rhetoric, and examining the implications regarding pain and suffering, safety and employment of establishing substance use disorder as a (white) disability and not a (black) criminal liability as it was understood throughout the Reagan-Bushera War on Dr…
Crisis, Care, and the Terror of Uncertainty
Crisis, Care, and the Terror of UncertaintyCoVId-19 and the speCtaCular faIlure of the response in the United States have brought the contradictions of racial capitalism to the forefront.As many have pointed out, the crisis has exposed many failures of racist, capitalist American infrastructures, revealing all too clearly the dysfunction of our "normal" operating procedures and the inequities they produce.To quote poet and novelist Dionne Brand, …
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“This Isn’t the South Bronx”
This article takes up the issue of substance use disorder, arguing that the discourses surrounding the 1980s crack cocaine epidemic and the present-day opioid epidemic rely on similarly racialized rhetoric, and examining the implications regarding pain and suffering, safety and employment of establishing substance use disorder as a (white) disability and not a (black) criminal liability as it was understood throughout the Reagan-Bushera War on Dr…
Crisis, Care, and the Terror of Uncertainty
Crisis, Care, and the Terror of UncertaintyCoVId-19 and the speCtaCular faIlure of the response in the United States have brought the contradictions of racial capitalism to the forefront.As many have pointed out, the crisis has exposed many failures of racist, capitalist American infrastructures, revealing all too clearly the dysfunction of our "normal" operating procedures and the inequities they produce.To quote poet and novelist Dionne Brand, …
Toward a Collective Undertaking of Self-Abolition
This article takes up the call to witness, reckon, and contemplate (the possibility of) solidarity by reading various expressions of and meditations on Black-Palestinian solidarity, with a particular focus on the response to the 2023–24 military assault on Gaza, to show first that key moments of “transnational solidarity” have helped push the “work” of solidarity, and that of liberation more generally, away from analogy, reciprocity, and appeals …
Political science (3 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Business (1 work) · Categorization (1 work) · Civil rights (1 work) · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) (1 work) · Criminalization (1 work) · Criminology (1 work) · Critical Race Theory in Education (1 work)