Ali Aslam is a political theorist whose research and teaching examine how citizens negotiate key concepts like freedom, recognition, and democracy through political struggle. He is author of Ordinary Democracy: Sovereignty and Citizenship Beyond the Neoliberal Impasse (2017) and has published articles on social movements, including Black Lives Matter and Occupy. He teaches courses on grassroots democracy, political economy, democratic theory and practice, and the history of political thought.
Ali Aslam
Recent Campus News
A Baccalaureate event unlike any other
This year’s Baccalaureate at Mount Holyoke College was livestreamed for the first time in its history, due to COVID-19.
The 1619 Project is the Common Read for 2020
Mount Holyoke College’s Common Read for 2020 will be prose essays from The New York Times Magazine’s ongoing initiative The 1619 Project.
Why would Log Cabin Republicans back Trump?
Ali Aslam, assistant professor of politics at Mount Holyoke College, explains the Log Cabin Republicans’ surprising endorsement.
New House, new rules
Ali Aslam, assistant professor of politics at Mount Holyoke, discusses the new rules that could reshape the House of Representatives into “the people’s House.”
Recent Publications
Aslam, A., McIvor, D., & Schlosser, J. (2019). Democratic Theory When Democracy Is Fugitive, Democratic Theory, 6(2), 27-40. Retrieved Jan 22, 2020, from https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/democratic-theory/6/2/dt060204.xml
Aslam, A. (2017). The Future of Bad Collectivity. Law, Culture and the Humanities,174387211771344. doi:10.1177/1743872117713444
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