Nalini Persram PhD

Education
PhD 1997. International Politics. University of Wales Aberystwyth.
MA 1992. International Relations. University of East Anglia, UK.
BA 1990. Political Science. University of Victoria, Canada.
BA 1986. Music. University of Regina, Canada.

Previous Posts
Department of Political Science, University of Dublin, Trinity College 1999-2006

Cultural Studies Program, Department of Liberal Arts, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago 2004-2005

International Graduate Summer Seminar in the African-New World Studies Program, Florida International University July 2005

Selected Contributions
Postcolonialism and Political Theory, edited by Nalini Persram (Lexington Books, May 2007 hbk; Feb 2008 pbk)
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Sovereignty and Subjectivity, Jenny Edkins, Nalini Persram, Véronique Pin-Fat (eds) (Lynne Rienner, 1999).

N. Persram, Guest Editor, Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology: Special Issue "Post/Coloniality and Subjectivity," 3(3), 2013

“The Clash and 'Civilisation': Representation, Rhetoric and Popular Legitimacy,” co-authored with Francesco Cavatorta and Shiera El-Malik, in Lise Garon (ed.), Et puis vint le 11 septembre... Remise en question de l'hypothèse du choc des civilisations (Les Presses de l’Université Laval, 2003)

“wartimeviolence: pulping fictions of the subaltern,” in Vivienne Jabri and Eleanor O'Gorman (eds.), Women, Culture and International Relations (Lynne Rienner, 1999)

“In my father's house are many mansions: the nation and postcolonial desire,” Heidi Safia Mirza (ed.), Black British Feminism: A Reader (London: Routledge, 1997)

"Spatial and Temporal Dislocations of Theory, Subjectivity and Post()Reason in the Geopolitics of Subaltern Studies," Cultural Studies<->Critical Methodologies 10(5), 2010

"Subaltern," entry in Encyclopedia of Political Theory (Sage, 2010)

“The Importance of Being Cultural: Nationalist Thought and Jagan’s Colonial World,” Small Axe: A (Caribbean) Journal of Criticism Special Issue: Guyana, The Present against the Past, #15 March 2004: 82-105

“Guerrillas, Games and Governmentality,” Small Axe: A (Caribbean) Journal of Criticism “Politics/Nation” Special Issue #10, September 2001: 21-40.

“Politicizing the Féminine, Globalizing the Feminist,” Alternatives 19(3), 1994: 275-313.

“The Attack on Iraq from a Postcolonial Perspective,” European Political Science War Symposium, no. 3.1, Autumn 2003 http://www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr/publications/eps/onlineissues
/autumn2003/feature/persram.htm

“Trinidadian Identity: Gender, Ethnicity and Nation in the Calypso Economy of Meaning,” Occasional Papers Series, UWI, St Augustine, 1995

Research Interests:
Subjectivity and survival; critical theory; postcoloniality; feminism; Caribbean culture and resistance; international political theory.