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Khaled Al-Kassimi
Khaled Al-Kassimi is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the American University in the Emirates. His research engages in law and philosophy, history and political science with an eye appreciating and critiquing the civilizational heritage accentuating the epistemic reconnaissance between the Orient and Occident. Also, Arab-Islamic and Latin-European epistemological differences pertaining to their different jurisprudent and philosophical theology.
Subjects: Geography , History, Law, Middle East Studies, Political Science, Religion
Biography
Dr. Khaled Al-Kassimi is an Assistant Professor of Political Sociology, International Relations, and Legal Jurisprudent Philosophy at the American University in the Emirates. His teaching expertise includes subjects navigating International Law and International Relations, Geopolitics and Geography, International Relations and Diplomacy, and finally, Critical Security Studies and (Post)-Development Studies. He holds a Philosophical Doctorate in Political Science from the faculty of Social Sciences at McMaster University (2016-2020), a Masters’ degree in International Relations from McMaster University (2015-2016), and an Honours Bachelor of Arts with a combined specialist in History and Political Science from the University of Toronto (2009-2013).In addition, his academic research navigates approaches accenting critical security studies and decolonial studies with a particular interest in Arab-Islamic and Latin-European epistemological differences pertaining to their different jurisprudent and philosophical sources (i.e., revealed Law and rationalized law). Such eclectic disciplinary navigation has permitted Khaled Al-Kassimi to publish peer-reviewed articles in a variety of journals interested in law and philosophy, history and political science with an eye appreciating the civilizational heritage accentuating the cultural reconnaissance between the Orient and Occident.
His most recent monograph published by Routledge entitled "International Law, Necropolitics, and Arab Lives - The Legalization of Creative Chaos in Arabia" argues that International Relations and International Law continue to be accented by epistemic violence by naturalizing a separation between law and morality. The main question accenting the monograph is: what does such positivist juridical ethos make possible when considering that both disciplines reify a secular (immanent) ontology?. The monograph emphasizes that positivist jurisprudence (re)-conquered Arabia by subjugating Arab life to the power of death (i.e., necropower) using extrajudicial techniques of violence seeking the implementation of a "New Middle East" that is no longer "resistant to Latin-European modernity", but amenable to such exclusionary telos. The monograph goes beyond the limited remonstration asserting that the problématique with both disciplines is that they are primarily "Eurocentric". Rather, the epistemic inquiry uncovers that legalizing necropower is necessary for the temporal coherence of secular-modernity since a humanitarian logic masks sovereignty inherently being necropolitical by categorizing Arab-Islamic epistemology as an internal-external enemy from which national(ist) citizenship must be defended. This creates a sense of danger around which to unite "modern" epistemology whilst reinforcing the purity of a particular ontology at the expense of banning and de-humanizing a supposed impure Arab world-view.
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McMaster University
University of Toronto
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