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We write to express our solidarity with the scholars, activists, and other knowledge producers who are targeted by the February 2021 statements by Frédérique Vidal, France’s Minister of Higher Education, Research, and Innovation. In them she denounced “Islamo-gauchisme” (Islamo-leftism) and its “gangrene” effect on France, and called for an inquiry into France’s national research organization, the CNRS, and the university. The specific kinds of knowledge in question analyze and critique colonialism and racism, and support decolonial, anti-racist, and anti-Islamophobia projects within the academy and on the streets. Vidal’s statements show the discomfort these challenges are causing the State, and hence the desire to repress them rather than engage them.

The State’s intentions are found in the language it uses. The relatively new term “Islamo-gauchisme” reflects a much older convergence of right-wing, colonial and racist ideologies working in opposition to anti-colonial, anti-Islamophobia and anti-racism struggles.

Vidal claims that anti-colonial, decolonial and postcolonial critique, anti-racist, anti-Islamophobia, intersectionality, and decolonial feminist and queer analyses are foreign imports from the US academy.

She ignores that decolonial theory actually developed in Abya Yala (Latin America), postcolonial theory in India, and that women and queers in anti-colonial and anti-racism struggles have always thought about many relations of power together. Vidal also forgets that both postcolonial and decolonial theory are indebted to the prior work of French-speaking scholars of color such as Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, and others.

This false narrative and these acts of repression effectively remove France from a vibrant and urgent global discussion. They put faculty of color and allies producing critical scholarship on colonialism, Islamophobia, anti-Black racism, etc. - already few and marginalized - at even greater risk.

The attack on progressive and radical scholars and activists seeks at all costs to preserve “French exceptionalism” and a whitewashed image of the Republic scrubbed clean of inconvenient truths. These include the fact that France remains a colonial power (in, for example, Réunion, Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, Iles des Saintes, la Désirade, Mayotte, New Caledonia, etc), and a neocolonial one in terms of its economic, political, and military relations to former colonies.

This colonial mentality is manifest in France’s structures of governance, especially with regard to both citizens and immigrants of color, as reflected in a barrage of laws such as:  the law against wearing the veil; immigration laws; the Islamophobic law against “separatism” which has already shut down the CCIF (Collective against Islamophobia in France) and threatens all forms of autonomy; the proposed "global security" bill institutionalizing mass surveillance, including by drone, and restricting publicization of police brutality; the (now-repealed) law that mandated that colonialism be taught in only one State-sanctioned manner; rights-abusive and discriminatory counterterrorism laws; and others. These measures seek to forcibly “integrate” suspect populations into subordinate roles in French society.

It is precisely the critique of this colonial history and present, and its manifestations in State racisms including Islamophobia, that the State wishes to censor and make invisible.

Elements of the White Left, including feminists without an anticolonial, anti-Islamophobia or antiracism analysis, have also been complicit in rendering colonial and racial oppression invisible, and providing ideological rationalizations for State racisms. This, too, speaks to the incoherence of the term, “Islamo-leftism.”

The repression in France is not isolated. In Brazil, Turkey, Hungary, Poland, the US, India and other places we see the rise of neoliberal, right-wing, and authoritarian governmental suppression of critical scholarship and social movements.

But wherever we find repression we also find forms of resistance networked into global chains of solidarity.  

Vidal’s statement and the planned inquiry have appeared in the context of an explosion of energy in both the academy and on the streets to address colonial, racial, and economic injustice.  For example, the demonstrations in defense of Adama Traoré in France and other anti-racist protests globally after the murder of George Floyd represent the kind of commitment and courage that Vidal and others are worried about. Repressive laws and inquiries will not stop this scholarship nor the movements.

As international scholars and activists, we pledge solidarity with our counterparts in France. We commit ourselves to monitoring the situation carefully, to publicizing cases globally, to inviting those facing repression and censorship to speak in our countries, to co-authoring essays with them and helping them get their work translated, to co-mentoring students and junior colleagues, and to engaging in other forms of collaboration that they desire.  

Authors:

Paola Bacchetta (Professor, University of California, Berkeley)
Azeezah Kanji (Legal Academic and Journalist, Toronto)
David Palumbo-Liu (Professor, Stanford University)

Signatories:

1. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor, Columbia University, USA
2. Gina Dent, Associate Professor, Feminist Studies, History of Consciousness, and Legal Studies. University of California, Santa Cruz
3. Angela Y Davis, Distinguished Professor Emerita, University of California, Santa Cruz
4. Robin DG Kelley, Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History, UCLA, USA
5. Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Distinguished Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies & Dean’s Professor of the Humanities,  Syracuse University
6. Achille Mbembe, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (South Africa)
7. Roxane Dunbar Ortiz, Historian and author
8. Hazel V. Carby, Charles C. & Dorothea S Dilley Professor Emeritus of African American Studies, Yale University
9. Viet Thanh Nguyen, University Professor, University of Southern California
10. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Assistant Professor & Charles H. Mcilwain University Preceptor, Princeton University
11. Wael Hallaq, Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University
12. Talal Asad, Professor of Anthropology Emeritus, Graduate center, City University of New York
13. Ahdaf Soueif, Writer
14. Kamila Shamsie, Novelist and Professor of Creative Writing, University of Manchester
15. Homi K. Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University
16. Sara Ahmed, independent scholar
17. Robert Warrior, Hall Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture, University of Kansas
18. Cherrie Moraga, Poet, Playwright-Director, Educator, Activist
19. Trinh T. Minh-ha, Professor of the Graduate School, Departments of Gender & Women's Studies and of Rhetoric, UC Berkeley
20. Walter D Mignolo, William H. Wannamaker Distinguished Professor of Romance Studies and Professor of Literature, Duke University
21. Hamid Dabashi, Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
22. Vijay Prashad Executive Director, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
23. amina wadud, National Islamic University Yogjakarta
24. Ninotchka Rosca, writer, AF3IRM Transnational Committee
25. Dr. Abdullahi An-Naim, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law, Emory University
26. Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Professorial Research Associate, SOAS, University of London
27. Roger Waters Musician/Activist
28. Christina Sharpe, Professor, York Univ., Toronto
29. Jin Haritaworn, Associate Professor, York University
30. Ayça Çubukçu, Associate Professor in Human Rights, London School of Economics
31. Dr Ram Puniyani, human rights defender, India
32. Nick Estes, Assistant Professor of American Studies, University of New Mexico
33. Shailja Patel, Activist, Writer. US/Kenya
34. Dina Gilio-Whitaker, MA (Coville Confederated Tribes). Lecturer, American Indian Studies, California State University, San Marcos
35. Maytha Alhassen, Historian, TV writer and producer
36. dream hampton, film-maker and writer
37. Farid Esack, Research Professor, Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Studies
38. Mishuana Goeman (Tonawanda Band of Seneca), Professor of Gender Studies and American Indian Studies IDP, UCLA
39. Ato Quayson,  Doyle Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies, Stanford. Fellow, Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences
40. Jasbir Puar, Professor, Rutgers University
41. Laila Lalami, Novelist, Professor at University of California, Riverside
42. Boaventura de Sousa Santos, University of Coimbra, Portugal
43. Ronit Lentin, Associate Professor Sociology (ret), Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
44. Suchitra Vijayan, Writer, Lawyer, New York City
45. Jamille Pinheiro Dias, University of Manchester, and Belém, Brazil.
46. Alana Lentin, Associate Professor of Cultural & Social Analysis, Western Sydney University, Australia
47. Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Professor and Director, Rutgers Advanced Institute for Critical Caribbean Studies, Rutgers
48. Harsha Walia, Activist and Writer, Vancouver
49. Dr. Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi, Director and Senior Scholar, Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies, San Francisco State University
50. Dr. Ramon Grosfoguel, Department of Ethnic Studies, UC-Berkeley
51. Arun Kundnani, Writer, New York
52. Brenna Bhandar, Associate Professor, Allard Law Faculty, UBC
53. Sunera Thobani, Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia
54. Hafsa Kanjwal, Assistant Professor, Lafayette College
55. Deepa Kumar, Professor, Rutgers University, New Jersey, United States.
56. Nader Hashemi, University of Denver
57. Juliane Hammer, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, UNC Chapel Hill, USA
58. Dr. Farid Hafez, Georgetown University and Salzburg University, Department of Sociology and Political Science
59. Khaled A. Beydoun, Wayne State Law
60. Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Brown University
61. John L. Esposito, University Professor of Religion & International Affairs, Georgetown University
62. Randa Abdel-Fattah, Writer and Research Fellow, Macquarie University I
63. Kirsten Wesselhoeft, Assistant Professor, Vassar College
64. Sherene H. Razack, UCLA
65. Susan Abulhawa, novelist
66. Junaid Ahmad, Director of the Center for Islam and Decoloniality, Pakistan
67. Fatima El-Tayeb, Professor of Literature and Ethnic Studies, University of California San Diego
68. S.Sayyid, Professor, University of Leeds, UK
69. Anna Bigelow, Associate Professor, Religious Studies, Stanford
70. Cemil Aydin, Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
71. Usha Iyer, Assistant Professor, Stanford University
72. Ethel Brooks, Rutgers University
73. Rinaldo Walcott, Professor, University of Toronto
74. Catherine Walsh, Distinguished Professor and Director Doctoral Program in Latin American Cultural Studies, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar-Ecuador
75. Xamuel Bañales, Associate professor, California State University
76. Zareena Grewal, Assoc Professor, Yale University
77. Hamada Hamid Altalib, Yale University
78. Tariq Modood, Director, Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship, University of Bristol
79. Dr. Hatem Bazian, Editor, Islamophobia Studies Journal and UC Berkeley lecturer.
80. Jasmin Zine, Wilfrid Laurier University
81. AbdoolKarim Vakil, Lecturer, King's College London, UK
82. Roberto D. Hernandez, Associate Professor, Chicana/o Studies, San Diego State University
83. Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Political Science, Carleton College
84. Jáfia Naftali Câmara, Doctoral researcher, University of Bristol
85. Cyra Akila Choudhury, Professor of Law, FIU College of Law
86. Craig Calhoun, Arizona State University
87. Sara M Saleh, Human Rights Campaigner, Writer & Poet
88. Michele Lamont, Harvard University
89. Shaunna Rodrigues, PHD Candidate, Columbia University
90. Jennifer Lena, Columbia University
91. David Smilde, Professor of Sociology and Latin American Studies, Tulane University
92. Joseph Gerteis, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota
93. Mohamed Shaid Mathee, Senior lecturer, University of Johannesburg
94. Adi Ophir, Professor Emeritus, Tel Aviv University, Visiting Professor, Brown University
95. SHAMSUL ISLAM, FORMER FACULTY UNIVERSITY OF DELHI
96. Neelima Sharma, women-therate activist, Delhi-India
97. Barnor Hesse, Associate Professor, Department of African American Studies, Northwestern University
98. Raed Rafei, PhD candidate at the University of California, Santa Cruz
99. Sabelo J Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Chair in Epistemologies of the Global South with Emphasis on Africa, University of Bayreuth, Germany.
100. Irfan Engineer, Director, Centre for the Study of Society and Secularism, India
101. Mohamed Seedat, Unisa Institute for Social and Health Sciences
102. Dr. Marina Grzinic, Professor Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
103. Reza Zia-Ebrahimi, Associate Professor of History, King’s College London
104. Dr. Tina Magazzini, Research Associate, EUI
105. Shahnaaz Suffla, University of South Africa
106. Prof Olivette Otele, University of Bristol
107. Garth Stevens, Professor and Dean of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
108. Tjaša Kancler, Associate Professor, University of Barcelona
109. Schirin Amir-Moazami, Professor of Islam in Europe, Freie Universität Berlin
110. Asli Bali, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
111. Mike Savage, Prof of Sociology, LSE
112. Nadia Fadil, Associate Professor in Anthropology, KU Leuven (Belgium)
113. Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, Professor in Global Thought, SOAS University of London
114. Dr. Jason Allen-Paisant, Lecturer in Decolonial Thought, University of Leeds, UK
115. Scott Timcke, writer
116. Myria Georgiou, Professor in Media and Communications, LSE
117. Kopano Ratele, Professor, University of South Africa
118. Tajul Islam, Iqbal Centre, University of Leeds, UK
119. Lara Sheehi, Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology, The George Washington University
120. Dr Syed Mustafa Ali, Lecturer, The Open University, UK
121. Dr MG Khan, Lecturer, Ruskin College, Oxford.
122. Dr Ismail Patel
123. Devin Atallah, Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Massachussets Boston
124. Baljeet Gill/Programme Coordinator/Ruskin College/Oxford/UK
125. Asma Afsaruddin, Professor of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, Indiana University, Bloomington
126. Laurie Brand, Robert Grandford Wright Professor of International Relations and Middle East Studies
127. Zachary Lockman, Professor, New York University
128. Dina Khoury, Professor of History and International Affairs, George Washington University
129. Miriam R. Lowi, Professor, The College of New Jersey, USA
130. Nadia Yaqub, Professor, Dept. of M.E. and Asian Studies, UNC Chapel Hill
131. Carole L. Crumley, Professor of Anthropology (Emerita), University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
132. Asli Peker, Clinical Associate Professor, New York University
133. Lawrence Grossberg, Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
134. Allison De Marco, Advanced Research Scientist, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
135. Sherryl Kleinman, Emerita Professor of sociology, UNC-Chapel Hill
136. Joel Beinin, Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History, Emeritus, Stanford University
137. Eve Troutt Powell, Professor, University of Pennsylvania
138. Jesica Siham Fernández, Assistant Professor, Ethnic Studies, Santa Clara University (USA)
139. Mezna Qato, University of Cambridge
140. Juan Cole, University of Michigan
141. Jane Hathaway, Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of History, Ohio State University
142. Aslı Iğsız, Associate Professor, New York University
143. Kabir Tambar, Associate Professor, Stanford University
144. Kelda Jamison, Stanford University
145. Don Nonini, Professor of Anthropology, UNC Chapel Hill
146. Lizabeth Roemer, Professor and Chair of Psychology, University of Massachusetts Boston
147. Hồng-Ân Trương, Associate Professor, UNC-Chapel Hill
148. Radhika Balakrishnan, Rutgers University
149. Professor Ali Rattansi.  City University of London
150. Jonathan Rosa, Associate Professor of Education and Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University
151. Sharika Thiranagama, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Stanford
152. Sylvia Yanagisako, Edward Clark Crossett Professor of Humanistic Studies, Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University
153. Jose David Saldivar, Leon Sloss, Jr. Professor, Stanford University
154. Lisa Lowe, Professor, Yale University
155. Neha Vora, Associate Professor, Lafayette College
156. Atiya Husain, University of Richmond
157. Françoise Lionnet, Research Professor, Harvard University
158. S Faizi, Ecologist, India
159. Frances Thirlway, Research Fellow, University of York
160. Naomi Waltham-Smith, Associate Professor, University of Warwick
161. Humeira Iqtidar, King's College London
162. Lamia Irfan, Postdoctoral research fellow, Birkbeck University of London
163. Anil Eklavya, Researcher
164. Bandana Purkayastha, Professor of Sociology and Asia and Asian American Studies, University of Connecticut.
165. Debashree Mukherjee, Columbia University
166. Karen Suyemoto, Professor, Psychology and Asian American Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston
167. Rajiv Gupta Former Professor and head department of Sociology University of Rajasthan Jaipur India
168. John Reynolds, Associate Professor, National University of Ireland - Maynooth
169. Laura Betancur-Restrepo, Associate Professor, Facultad de derecho, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
170. Amar Bhatia, Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
171. Sujith Xavier, Associate Professor University of Windsor
172. Miriam Grossi, Full Professor at Federal University of Santa Catarina – Brazil
173. María del Rosario Acosta Lopez, Professor, Universiry of California- Riverside and International Chair of Contemporary Philosophy at University of Paris 8
174. Shu-mei Shih, Edward W. Said Professor of Comparative Literature, UCLA
175. Usha Natarajan, Edward W Said Fellow, Columbia University
176. Oliver D'Souza, Editor, Peoples Post India
177. Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín, PhD Student - Graduate institute, Geneva
178. J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Professor of American Studies, Wesleyan University
179. Shireen Hamza, PhD Candidate, History of Science, Harvard
180. Steven Salaita, USA
181. Nicole R. Fleetwood, Professor of American Studies and Art History, Rutgers University
182. Rohan D'Souza, Associate Professor, Kyoto University
183. Karen Kuo, Associate Professor, School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University
184. Neshat Quaiser, centre de sciences humaines, former teacher of sociology
185. Sarah Hayes-Skelton, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Massachusetts Boston
186. Minoo Moallem, Professor, University of California, Berkeley
187. Glen Coulthard (Yellowknives Dene), University of British Columbia
188. Jaspal Singh Sidhu , writer
189. Abdourahman Waberi, Writer, Professor, George Washington University
190. Dr. Philipp Krämer, Acting Professor of Linguistics, Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
191. Caroline Jacquet, docteure en science politique
192. Kevin Thomas, Assistant Professor of Multicultural Branding, Marquette University
193. Claudy Delne independent researcher/author
194. Michael Baum, Professor, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa
195. Arianne Des Rochers, Assistant Professor of Translation, University of Moncton, Canada
196. Paulina Peñaherrera - Red de mujeres con discapacidad
197. Maël Voegeli, MD, PhD, Independant Researcher France-India
198. Sergio Rigoletto, Associate Professor, University of Oregon
199. Kitty Kelly Epstein, PhD, professor at Holy Names University, host of radio show on KPFA FM
200. Veronica Gomez-Temesio, research fellow, University of Copenhagen
201. Allison Loconto, Research Scientist, INRAE France, member of the ISA Executive Committee
202. Davud Cobham, professor of economics, Heriot-Watt Uni, UK
203. Dr Francesca Cavallaro, Research Fellow, UCL Institute of Child Health
204. Catherine Cobham Lecturer in Arabic, University of St Andrews
205. Welliton Caixeta Maciel, Anthropologist and Ph.D in Law candidate, University of Brasilia (UnB), Brazil.
206. Mamadou Diouf, Leitner Family Professor of African Studies and History, Columbia University, New York
207. Tiago Afonso / professeur Universidade Lusófona do Porto, réalisateur.
208. Giulia Bonanno, PhD Student, Sapienza University of Rome
209. Jill Jarvis, Assistant Professor, French, Yale University
210. Raquel Schefer, post-doctoral researcher, University of Lisbon, NOVA University of Lisbon, University of the Western Cape
211. Antoine Traisnel, Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature and English, University of Michigan
212. Sandro Loi, PhD Student - University of Geneva
213. Joan Grandjean, Université de Genève
214. Omar Berrada, writer and adjunct professor, The Cooper Union
215. Christophe Bresoli, Lecturer, University of Constance, Germany
216. Morgane Burnel, University Grenoble-Alpes
217. Pascal Menoret, Associate Professor, Brandeis University
218. Oumelbanine Zhiri , Professor, University of California San Diego
219. Imène Ghernati, Assistant Professor, University of San Francisco
220. Alba Rodríguez-García, Enseignante-chercheure, Université Gaston Berger, Sénégal
221. Fabiana EX-SOUZA, PhD Student, University of Paris 8
222. Daniel A. Arboleda, PhD student - Aix-Marseille University
223. Tania El Khoury, Director, Center for Human Rights & The Arts, Bard College
224. Bora Erden, Researcher, SITU Research
225. Laura Aristizabal Arango, PhD Candidate, Université de Liège, Belgium
226. Claske Dijkema, Post-doc, swisspeace, University of Basel
227. Michael L. Thomas, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Susquehanna University
228. Dr Eloïse Bertrand, Early Career Fellow, University of Warwick
229. Philippe Pirotte, adjunct senior curator at UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Prof Art History and Curatorial Studies Städelschule Frankfurt
230. Noemie Arazi, Université Libre de Bruxelles
231. Soumaya Mestiri, Professor, University of Tunis, Tunisia
232. Edgar Schmitz, Reader in Art, Goldsmiths, University of London
233. Dr. Simon Sheikh, Programme Director, MFA Curating, Goldsmiths, University of London
234. Isobel Harbison, Lecturer, Goldsmiths, University of London
235. Ros Gray, Senior Lecturer, Goldsmiths, University of London
236. Meriem Agrebi, PhD, University of Carthage (TN)
237. Mehdi ALIOUA, Associate Professor, Université Internationale de Rabat, Morocco
238. Nancy Adajania, Cultural Theorist and Curator, Bombay
239. Mosbah Salah  Université de Tunis- Tunisai
240. Dr Clémentine Deliss,  Associate Curator, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
241. Meryem Belkaid, Assistant Professor, Bowdoin College
242. Shela Sheikh, Lecturer, Goldsmiths, University of London
243. Candice Breitz, Professor, HBK Braunschweig, Germany
244. Guy Halsall, Professor of History, University of York
245. Matthew Fuller, Professor of Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London
246. Dilyana Mincheva, Assistant Professor, McMaster University
247. Amel grami professor of gender studies. University of manouba tunisia
248. Howard Rechavia-Taylor, PhD Candidate, Columbia University
249. Dennis Arnold, Associate Professor, University of Amsterdam
250. Amahl Bishara, Tufts University
251. Walner Osna, PhD student, University of Ottawa
252. Daniel Moshenberg, Associate Professor, George Washington University
253. Pierre-Jean Clausse, King’s College London
254. Jean Beaman, Associate Professor, University of California-Santa Barbara
255. Philip Savage, Associate Professor, McMaster University, Canada
256. Michael Newman, Professor of Art Writing, Goldsmiths, University of London
257. Sam Jones, PhD Student, Yale University
258. Ximena Gonzalez Broquen, Researcher  Centro de Estudio de Transformaciones Sociales IVIC- VENEZUELA
259. Grant Kester, Professor, University of California
260. Ricardo Dominguez, Associate Professor, UCSD
261. Maia Nichols, PhD student, UC San Diego
262. Tina Catania, PhD Candidate, Syracuse University
263. Dakota Bailey, M.A. Candidate/TA, Syracuse University
264. Zohra Triki,  University of Tunis, TUNISIA
265. Magalie Civil, PhD Student, University of Ottawa
266. Luca Muscarà, Università del Molise & CNR Ismar
267. Sami Bargaoui, Professor, University of La Manouba, Tunisia
268. GOD'S ARM GLOBAL FOUNDATION; Amb. Adetunji Temitope Felix-CrownReawake
269. Elena dell'Agnese, Professor, Università di Milano-bicocca
270. Massimiliano Tabusi, Geographer, Associate Professor, Università per Stranieri di Siena, Italy
271. Lia Séval, tutor, Istituto Marangoni Paris
272. Filippo Celata, Professor of geography, University of Rome La Sapienza
273. Valentina Albanese, Researcher, University of Pisa
274. Doris Wastl-Walter, Prof.em. University of Berne, Switzerland
275. Pamela Sertzen, PhD Candidate, Syracuse Unviersity
276. Giorgia Riconda, MA Sociology, University of Milano Bicocca
277. Anthony Kwame Harrison, Edward S. Diggs Professor in Humanities, Virginia Tech
278. Estevão Bosco, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of São Paulo, Brazil
279. Silvia Aru, Assistant Professor
280. Bodeler JULIEN, PhD Student, EHESS
281. Emanuel Licha, Associate Professor, Université de Montréal
282. Jonah S. Rubin, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Knox College
283. Michal Ran-Rubin, Knox College
284. Kevin G Karpiak, Associate Professor, Eastern  Michigan University
285. Sara Martins, PhD Candidate, Goldsmiths College
286. Chiara Rabbiosi, Researcher, University of Padova
287. Yannis Hamilakis, Joukowsky Family Professor of Archaeology and Professor of Modern Greek Studies, Brown University
288. Stathis Papastathopoulos, Assistant Professor, University of Ioannina, Greece
289. Jen Meller, Associate Tutor of Law, Birkbeck University of London
290. David Thomas, PhD candidate, Birkbeck College, University of London
291. Iskander Abbasi, PhD Candidate, University of Johannesburg
292. Philippe Forêt, Professor and Dean, Brac University, Bangladesh
293. Giuseppe Muti, Geographer, Researcher, University of Insubria, Como and Varese
294. Jörg Plöger, Senior Researcher, ILS, Dortmund, GermanyAktina Stathaki, Curator and independent scholar, Greece
295. Élise Atangana, Commissaire de d’expositions
296. Jo Miller, Affiliated Lecturer, University of Cambridge
297. Barry Schwabsky, art critic, The Nation
298. Faouzi Mahbouli, Human Rights activist, Tunisia.
299. Trevor Stark, Assistant Professor, Art History, University of Calgary
300. Nicolas ZorIn, Assistant Professor, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
301. Yaiza Hernández Velázquez, Lecturer in Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London
302. Silja Klepp, Professor of Human Geography, Kiel
303. Gala Nettelbladt, Research Associate, Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space, Germany
304. Andrea Phillips, BALTIC professor of Contemporary Art, Northumbria University
305. Jarkko Saarinen, Professor, University of Oulu
306. Paola Minoia, Associate Prof., University of Turin and Helsinki
307. Maggi Leung, Associate Professor, Utrecht University
308. Brenden Rensink, Associate Professor of History, Brigham Young University
309. Xavier Oliveras, researcher and professor, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Mexico
310. Hayet Moussa.  Universitaire. . Tunisie
311. Diane Duclos, Assistant Professor, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
312. Gabriel Fauveaud, assistant professor, Université de Montréal
313. Yomaira C. Figueroa, Associate Professor, Michigan State University
314. Kenza Sefrioui, En toutes lettres, Morocco
315. Zeynep Kaşlı, Assistant Professor, International Institute of Social Studies
316. Dr. Søren Tinning, Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Sociology, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
317. Gabriel Fauveaud, assistant professor, Université de Montréal
318. Angelos Parigoris Lecturer, Department of Archaeology, University of Iceland
319. Carlotta Cossutta, post doc, Università del Piemonte Orientale
320. Giada Bonu, PhD Student, Scuola Normale Superiore
321. Barbara Poggio, Full Professor, University of Trento
322. Marco Pustianaz, Associate Professor of English and Theatre, Lecturer of gender and queer studies, Università del Piemonte Orientale
323. Luisa Stagi, Associate Prof., University of Genoa, Italy
324. Mariano Croce, Associate Professor, Sapienza University of Rome
325. Annalisa Murgia, Associate Professor, University of Milan
326. Cirus Rinaldi, University of Palermo (IT)
327. Giovanna Vingelli, Università della Calabria
328. Fabrizio Chello, Researcher, Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa - Napoli
329. Brunella Casalini, Associate Prof., University of Florence, Italy
330. Giulia Garofalo Geymonat/Researcher, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy
331. Giuseppe BURGIO, Associate Professor of Gender Education, KORE University of Enna (Italy)
332. Alessandro Pratesi, University of Florence (Italy)
333. Arien MacL Professor New School for Social Research Research
334. Annalisa Sscchi, associate professor, Iuav university of Venice
335. Lorenzo Bernini, Associate Professor, University of Verona
336. Stefano Tomassini, Assistant Professor at Università Iuav di Venezia (I)
337. Jacobé Huet, PhD Candidate, History and Theory of Architecture, Harvard University
338. Daniela Cherubini, Assistan Professor, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
339. Serena Calvi, Teacher, Italy
340. Arianna Mainardi, postdoctoral esearcher, University of Milano-Bicocca
341. Federica Timeto, Ca' Foscari University, Venice
342. Federica Castelli, Post-Doc Researcher, University of Roma Tre
343. Vincenza Perilli - Italy
344. Massimo Prearo, Post-doc Researcher, PoliTeSse-University of Verona
345. Aaminah Malik, PhD student, University of North Texas
346. Rui Gomes Coelho, Assistant Professor, Durham University, UK
347. Maddalena Cannito, Postdoc Researcher, Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento
348. Raffaella Ferrero Camoletto, Associate Professor, Department of Cultures, Politics and Society, University of Turin, Italy
349. Charlotte Gleghorn, Senior Lecturer, Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, University of Edinburgh
350. Audrey Córdova Rampant / Journalist-Filmmaker / Peru
351. Nicola Frith, Senior Lecturer in Francophone Studies, University of Edinburgh
352. Elisabetta Ferrari, Human Rights activist, Italia
353. Michela Mariotto Phd student Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
354. Cristiana Ottaviano, Associate Professor, Università di Bergamo (Italia)
355. Goldie Osuri, Associate Professor, University of Warwick, UK
356. Adi Saleem Bharat, University of Michigan
357. Dr Leona Vaughn, Research fellow, University of Liverpool
358. Natscia de Matteis, Formatrice, Centro Studi e Documentazione Pensiero Femminile aps, Torino, Italia
359. Stefania Doglioli, Co-founder di SAFE, Torino, Italia
360. Chiara Paglialonga, PhD Student, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy
361. Cesare Pozzuoli, Adjunct Professor of English Literature, University of Naples "Federico II"
362. Prof. Sveva Magaraggia, Associate Professor, University of Milan-Bicocca
363. Julie Cupples, Professor of Human Geography and Cultural Studies, University of Edinburgh
364. Valeria Ribeiro Corossacz, Associate Professor, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia - Italy
365. Fraser McQueen, Ph.D. candidate, University of Stirling
366. Inês Cordeiro Dias, Lecturer, University of Leeds
367. Matteo Botto, PhD candidate, University of Genoa (IT)
368. Stephanie Dennison, Professor of Brazilian Studies, University of Leeds
369. Dr Charlotte Ross, Reader, University of Birmingham
370. Alec Badenoch, Professor and Transnational Media VU Amsterdam/Assistant Prof, Media and Cultural Studies Utrecht University
371. Tanveer Ahmed, PhD student, The Open University, UK
372. Mara Pieri, Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra
373. Anssi Paasi, Professor, University of Oulu
374. Cristina Gamberi, Univeristy of Bologna
375. Habibe Sentürk, PhD student, University of Göttingen
376. Ilenia Caleo, researcher, University IUAV di Venezia (Italia)
377. Wanda Tommasi, Diotima, University of Verona
378. Rita Monticelli, Full Professor, University of Bologna, Italy
379. Laura Corradi, Studi di Genere e Metodo Intersezionale
380. Sarah Arens, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of St Andrews
381. Liana Borghi independent scholar
382. Alberica Bazzoni, Research Fellow, ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
383. Paolo Valerio professore onorario università Napoli  Federico II
384. Fareen Parvez, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
385. Nausica Palazzo, Postdoctoral Fellow, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
386. Laura Mentasti, sociologa e formatrice, Brescia-Italia
387. Costanza Guazzo, Phd Candidate in Sociology, University of Turin, Italy
388. Francesca R. Recchia Luciani, Professor History of Philosophy, University of Bari , Italy
389. Dr Aileen A. Espiritu
390. Greta Persico, post doc researcher, University of Bergamo
391. Marta Panighel, PhD student, University of Genoa
392. Iracema Dulley, Fellow/ICI-Berlin
393. Alina Dambrosio Clementelli, PhD student, University of Genoa, Italy
394. Dr Samuele Grassi, Adjunct Lecturer, University of Florence
395. Beatrice Gusmano, researcher, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy
396. Zine-Eddine Hathat, post-doc researcher, CAU Kiel
397. Federica de Cordova, assistant professor, Università di Verona, Italy
398. Fernanda Rojas, Phd candidate, University of British Columbia, Canada
399. Reuben Rose-Redwood, Professor of Geography, University of Victoria
400. Simon Springer, Professor of Human Geography, University of Newcastle, Australia
401. Christina Baade, Professor and Chair, Communication Studies and Multimedia McMaster University
402. Alessia Prati, PhD candidate, IUAV di Venezia, Italy
403. Matias Julian Nativo, MA student/Artist, Iuav di Venezia, IT
404. Trevor Wideman, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto
405. Alessandra Ferlito, PhD, Independent researcher
406. Carmela Ferrara, PhD candidate in Mind, Gender and Language at University of Napoli Federico II
407. Barbara Boninsegna direttrice artistica Centrale Fies
408. Mi Medrado, PhD Student, University of California, Los Angeles
409. Virginia Sommadossi, art director, Centrale Fies
410. Pedro Schacht Pereira, The Ohio State University
411. Simone Ranocchiari, PhD candidate, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
412. Francesca De Rosa, post-doc researcher, L'Orientale University, Naples
413. LucaManunza, researcher/URIT University Suor Orsola Benincasa, Naples
414. Gaia phd student in political science university of pisa
415. Claudia Borgia, free-lance photographer
416. Francesca Lopez, PhD studente, CUNY Graduate Center
417. Ottavia Voza, adjunct professor, Università degli Studi di Salerno
418. Noemi Rinaldi, student, Università degli studi di Napoli "L'Orientale"
419. Francois Questiaux, PhD student, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
420. Ilenia Iengo, PhD fellow at ICTA UAB
421. Laura Gemini, Associate Professor, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy
422. Fabiola Fiocco, PhD researcher, University of Edinburgh
423. Siti Maimunah, PhD student, University of Passau, Germany
424. Alessio Fabbro, No University affiliation, Berlin
425. Agata Tomsic, artist and independent scholar
426. Vincenzo Del Gaudio, research fellow Università degli studi di Salerno
427. Irene Leonardelli, PhD fellow, IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, the Netherlands
428. Irene Villa, PhD candidate, University of Verona
429. Ankita Shrestha, Marie Skłodowska Curie PhD Research Fellow, University of Oslo
430. Eunice Muneri
431. Nanako Nakamura
432. Elena Barattini, graduate student, Turin university, Italy
433. Serena Fiorletta Master in Gender studies Roma Tre
434. roberta paoletti, Scientific coordinator, Master Studi e politiche di genere Roma Tre University
435. Carolina Topini, PhD candidate, University of Geneva (CH)
436. Alessandra Saviotti, PhD researcher, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
437. Angela Balzano, Adjunct Professor, University of Bologna
438. Claudia Di Gianfrancesco, PhD student, Birkbeck University of London, UK
439. Davide Sgambaro, Visual Artist, Turin, IT
440. Eleonora Castagna, independent curator, member of Art Workers Italia
441. Nick Bourguignon, PhD candidate, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
442. Ilaria Santoemma, PhD Student, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy
443. Giovanna Maina, Associate Professor, University of Turin, Italy
444. Marlene Gombou, OSI, Freie Universität Berlin,
445. Enid Still, PhD student, Passau University
446. Dian Ekowati/PhD student/University of Brighton
447. Méris Angioletti, phd researcher, Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
448. Constance Dupuis, PhD candidate, Erasmus University Rotterdam
449. Nancy Worth, Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo, Canada
450. Giada Coleandro, PhD student in Sociology, University of Bologna
451. Sophie Oldfield, Professor, University of Cape Town, University of Basel
452. Silvia De Simone, Professoressa, Università di Cagliari
453. Gilda Sensales Professoressa Associata alla Sapienza Università di Roma
454. Lorenzo Vergani, Post Doc fellow, University of Milan
455. Luca Falzea, PhD candidate in Sociology and Methodology of Social Research
456. Kamelia El Ghaddar, Phd student in Gender Studies, University of Bologna
457. Valentina Mangano, Associate Professor, University of Pisa
458. Irene Ferigo, student, Ca' Foscari University
459. Veronica Valentini, curator
460. Giuliana Sano' Post-doc fellow, University of Messina
461. Valeria Quaglia, postdoctoral researcher, University of Milano-Bicocca
462. Francesco Sticchi/Lecturer in Film Studies/Oxford Brookes University
463. Sara Bonfanti, ERC postdoc fellow, University of Trento
464.  APS G.I.R.A.F.F.A Onlus - Bari
465. Marina Franchi, London School of Economics, UK
466. Giorgia Serughetti Research Fellow University of Milano-Bicocca
467. Noemi Martorano, PhD student,  University of Padova
468. Claudia Contu, Independent Curator and Writer
469. Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti, Curator and member of Art Workers Italia
470. Dafne Boggeri, Artist, @sprintmilano, IT
471. Eugenia Delfini, Curator
472. Paolo Gabriotti, graduate at Università di Bologna
473. Sabeth Buchmann, Professor of the History of Modern and Postmodern Art, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
474. Giulia Sbaffi, PhD candidate, NYU
475. Marianna Plat, student, University of Turin
476. Giulia Mengozzi, curator and member of Art Workes Italia
477. Emanuela Abbatecola, University of Genova, Italy, Editor In chief of AG-Aboutgender
478. Valerio Del Baglivo, independent curator
479. Lilia Giugni, University of Cambridge, Research Associate
480. Jack Gieseking, Asst Prof of Geography, University of Kentucky
481. Luigi De Angelis / Fanny & Alexander
482. Stefania Barca, University of Uppsala, Sweden
483. Lucia Bricco, Athens GR, artist
484. Chiara Bertone, Associate Professor, University of Eastern Piedmont
485. Andrea Di Bernardo, Student, University of Turin
486. Ignazio Favaloro, Teacher Secondary school, Italy
487. Mariavita Cambria, Associate Professor,  University of Messina (Italy)
488. Paola Cardiano, Associate professor, University of Messina
489. Francesca Topini, graduate student in Anthropology, Università degli studi di Torino
490. Noemi Novello, Università di Milano-Bicocca
491. Nurcin Ileri, Visiting Scholar, EUME- Forum Transregionale Studien
492. Endangered Scholars Worldwide @ the New School, New York
493. Michael Baum, Professor, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa
494. Andrea Salvatore Associate Professor, Sapienza University of Rome
495. Rosanna Zanella, Milano
496. Clotilde Barbarulli Il Giardino dei Ciliegi Firenze
497. Nicholas Crane, Assistant Professor, University of Wyoming
498. Miles Kenney-Lazar, Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore
499. Gabriel Popescu, Associate Professor of Political Geography, Indiana University
500. Philip Steinberg, Durham University, U.K.
501. Venere S. Sanna, Sogesid S.p.a. - The Ministry for the Ecological Transition, Italy
502. raffaella baccolini, professor, University of Bologna
503. Andrew Grant, Boston College
504. Beverley Mullings, Professor, Queen's University, Canada
505. Karen Culcasi, associate professor, West Virginia University
506. Dennis Grammenos, Professor of Geography, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
507. Shannon O'Lear, Professor of Geography, University of Kansas, US
508. Marco Barletta, PhD student, University of Bari Aldo Moro (Italy)
509. Gennaro Veneziano master student UniMi
510. Derek J. Barthel, MA Geography, NEIU - Activist & Independent Scholar
511. Giulia De Rocco, PhD student in pedagogical science, University of Bologna
512. Silvia Rodeschini researcher at the Department of social and political sciences - Università di Firenze
513. intersexioni, Italy
514. Madeleine Onguene/ Social worker Groupe sos solidarité
515. Silvia Lorusso, student, Università di Roma La Sapienza
516. Chiara Carbone- feminist activist
517. Giulia Longoni, Phd Student, University of Pisa
518. Luca Trappolin, University of Padova (Italy)
519. Alessandra Catalisano, Literature and humanities student, University of Palermo
520. Michael Tortorella, student, Alma Mater Studiorum of Bologna
521. Cecilia Milza, Artist
522. Fabio Mostaccio, University of Messina, Italy
523. Isabella Pinto, Coordinator of Gender's Studies and Politics, Roma Tre University
524. Steven Seegel, Professor of History, University of Northern Colorado
525. Darren Purcell, Associate Professor of Geography, University of Oklahoma
526. Emily Gilbert, Professor, University of Toronto
527. Erinn Nicley, institutional affiliation withheld
528. Carl Dahlman, Professor, Miami University
529. Kate Dannies, Assistant Professor, Miami University
530. Angela Alaimo, geographer and teacher SSPG  Rovereto, Italy
531. Joe Painter, Professor of Geography, Durham University, UK
532. Federico Ferrari, associate professor Ensa Nantes - Université de Nantes
533. Silvia Bongiardina, Italy
534. M. Martin Guiney, Professor of French and Literature, Kenyon College (USA)
535. Freddy Paul Grunert/Curatore intradisciplinare/ZKM/Baltan/Eu Comission
536. Rosenstein, Adeline / Theater Director, Bruxelles
537. Mónica Farías, CONICET-Instituto de Geografía, Universidad de Buenos Aires
538. Andrew Burridge, Lecturer, Macquarie University, Australia
539. Geoff Boyce, Academic Director, Earlham College Border Studies Program
540. Noe Cornago, Associate Professor of International Relations, University of the Basque Country (Spain)
541. Constance Penley, Professor of Film and Media Studies, University of California - Santa Barbara
542. Dimitris Zachos, Assistant Professor, Aristotle's University of Thessaloniki, Greece
543. Roberta Bueno, student of International Cooperation, University of Turin
544. Christopher Winks, Associate Professor and Chair, Comparative Literature, Queens College/CUNY
545. Fareed Armaly, Artist
546. Valentina Greco, Indipendent and Precarious Researcher
547. Leece M. Lee-Oliver, Assistant Professor WGSS and American Indian Studies, Director, AIS, CSU Fresno
548. Ester Micalizzi, phd student, University of Genoa
549. monika jaeckel PhD student University of Westminster
550. Rosa Maria Currò, Anthropology student, University of Bologna
551. Asma Barlas, Professor Emerita of Politics, Ithaca College, New York, USA
552. Simina Dragos, PhD student, University of Cambridge (UK)
553. Imran Syed Zaidi, International Politics (MSc) graduate, Leiden University (Netherlands)
554. Jeanette Jouili, Associate Professor, Syracuse University
555. Idrissou Mora-Kpai, Filmmaker, Assistant Professor, Ithaca College
556. Ulises Ali Mejias, Professor, State University of New York at Oswego
557. Patrick Pasture, Professor of European and Global History, KU Leuven (Belgium)
558. Nikolay Karkov, Associate Professor, SUNY Cortland, U.S.A.
559. Mohammed Sawaie, Professor of Arabic, University of Virginia
560. Jonathan Wyrtzen, Associate Professor of Sociology, Yale University
561. Catherine Cobham, Lecturer in Arabic, University of St Andrews
562. David Cobham, professor of economics, Heriot-Watt Uni, Scotland, UK
563. Elizabeth Bittel, Assistant Professor of Sociology/Anthropology, SUNY Cortland
564. Avanti Mukherjee, Assistant Professor, SUNY Cortland
565. Stas Prentiss Communication Studies -Holy Names University
566. Christian Berndt, Professor of Economic Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland
567. Rabiat Akande, Harvard University
568. Zishad Lak, Lecturer, University of Ottawa
569. Sruti Bala, Associate Professor Theatre Studies, University of Amsterdam
570. Birsen Erdogan, Maastricht University
571. Giovanna Vingelli, Centro di Women's Studies "Milly Villa" - Università della Calabria
572. Federica Sarro, International cooperation and development studenti, UNICAL (Italy)
573. Antinella Vitale
574. Martina Mazziotti, member Differenza Donna ONG
575. Sandra Burchi, post-doc, University of Pisa
576. Annika Lindberg, Postdoctoral researcher, University of Copenhagen
577. Ylenia Porco Assistente Sociale e student del Dipartimento di scienze politiche e sociali dell'Università della Calabria.
578. salvatore marra, university student of science for cooperation and development at the university of Calabria
579. Adrián Groglopo, Lecturer, Gothenburg university - Sweden
580. Giovanna Gioli, Senior Lecturer, Bath Spa University, UK
581. Laurel Harig-Khan, The Newberry Library