Dr Ihab Shalbak
Ihab is a lecturer in human rights and social justice. Before joining the University of Sydney, Ihab worked both in community and government positions including as a Senior Research and Policy Advisor at the Australian Human Rights Commission.
Ihab’s research examines the relation between dominant forms of knowledge and politics, and interrogates the politics of institutional knowledge production. Along these lines, he has written on think tanks, hegemony, international law and human rights.
SCLG6923: Social Justice Vocational Project Design
SCLG6913 Social Justice Vocational Placement
HRTD6901: Human Rights Norms and Mechanisms
SSPS: Vocational Placement
Ihab is currently working on a book project that traces the emergence of the think tank form and demonstrates that it emerged as a distinctive response to the crisis of authority and the problematic of governmentality in American society in the twentieth-century.
| Project title | Research student |
|---|---|
| Islam and Electoral Politics in Indonesia: The New Relation between Islamic Boarding Schools (Pesantren) and Political Parties during 2020 Indonesian Local Elections. | Miftah MIFTAHUDDIN |
| Decolonizing Indigenous: Struggling Over Cultural Economic Access Toward Political Recognition | Hery PRASETYO |
| Muslim Refugee Women's Identity and Economic Empowerment | Ume Rubab SHEIKH |
Publications
Book Chapters
- Shalbak, I., Whyte, J. (2023). The war against the people and the people's war: Palestine and the additional protocols to the Geneva conventions. Making Endless War: The Vietnam and Arab-Israeli Conflicts in the History of International Law, (pp. 145-172). Michigan: University of Michigan Press.
- Shalbak, I. (2018). The Birth of the Think Tank: RAND and the Development of a Technocratic Worldview. In Anna Yeatman and Bogdan Costea (Eds.), The Triumph of Managerialism: New Technologies of Government and their Implications for Value. US: Rowman and Littlefield.
- Shalbak, I. (2010). Edward Said and the Palestinian Experience. In Joseph Pugliese (Eds.), Transmediterranean: Diasporas, Histories, Geopolitical Spaces, (pp. 71-83). United states: Peter Lang AG, International Academic Publishers.
Journals
- Shalbak, I. (2023). Human rights in Palestine: from self-determination to governance. Australian Journal of Human Rights. [More Information]
- Shalbak, I. (2018). Hegemony thinking: A detour through Gramsci. Thesis Eleven, 147(1), 45-61. [More Information]
- Humphrys, E., Shalbak, I. (2018). On 'heroic fury' and questions of method in Antonio Gramsci. Thesis Eleven, 147(1), 3-8. [More Information]
2023
- Shalbak, I. (2023). Human rights in Palestine: from self-determination to governance. Australian Journal of Human Rights. [More Information]
- Shalbak, I., Whyte, J. (2023). The war against the people and the people's war: Palestine and the additional protocols to the Geneva conventions. Making Endless War: The Vietnam and Arab-Israeli Conflicts in the History of International Law, (pp. 145-172). Michigan: University of Michigan Press.
2018
- Shalbak, I. (2018). Hegemony thinking: A detour through Gramsci. Thesis Eleven, 147(1), 45-61. [More Information]
- Humphrys, E., Shalbak, I. (2018). On 'heroic fury' and questions of method in Antonio Gramsci. Thesis Eleven, 147(1), 3-8. [More Information]
- Shalbak, I. (2018). The Birth of the Think Tank: RAND and the Development of a Technocratic Worldview. In Anna Yeatman and Bogdan Costea (Eds.), The Triumph of Managerialism: New Technologies of Government and their Implications for Value. US: Rowman and Littlefield.
2010
- Shalbak, I. (2010). Edward Said and the Palestinian Experience. In Joseph Pugliese (Eds.), Transmediterranean: Diasporas, Histories, Geopolitical Spaces, (pp. 71-83). United states: Peter Lang AG, International Academic Publishers.
Other Publications
Book Reviews and Scholarly Commentary
•‘Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine’, State Crime Journal (Forthcoming).
•‘The Crime of Nationalism: Britain, Palestine, and Nation-Building on the Fringe of Empire’, Journal of Palestine Studies 2018.
• ‘The Roots of Bernard Lewis’ Rage’, Postcolonial Studies Journal, vol. 21, no. 3 (2018).
Public Articles
• ‘War Against the People and the People’s War” (with Jessica Whyte), Insight – the publication of the Institute of Middle Eastern Studies, National University of Singapore, (2019).
• ‘The Deal of the Century, the Fortune of a Salesman and the Fate of the Palestinians’, Arena Magazine, (2019)
• ‘Prejudice and Pride: The Legacy of Orientalism in the Work of Bernard Lewis’, Arena Magazine, (2018).
• ‘Trump’s Side-Swipe: The Palestinian Refugees and UNRWA’, Arena Magazine, (2018).
• ‘How Small the State': The Battle for Jerusalem, and the Struggle to Keep Palestine Alive’, ABC Religion and Ethics Program, (2017).
Conference and seminar presentations
• 2019 ‘How Does a Palestinian Die? How Should a Palestinian Live? Humanity, Identity and Biopolitics in Post-Globalization Symposium, University of Sydney.
• 2018 ‘War Against the People and the People’s War: Palestine andInternational Humanitarian Law in the 1970s’ (with Jessica Whyte), The Vietnam and Arab-Israeli Conflicts: International Legal Migrations, Comparisons, and Connections Workshop, National University of Singapore.
• Also presented at the Unit for Global Justice, Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London.
• 2018 ‘Donald Trump the Palestinian Question’, Trump and the Middle East Conference, Deakin University.
• 2018 ‘Constantine Zurayk, on the Meaning of Nakba: Between Catastrophe and Redemption’, The Palestinian Nakba in Arab Historical Writing, Arab Centre for Research and Policy Studies, Doha.
• 2018, ‘RAND Corporation’s Decision-Making Theoretic’, Second Australian Political Theory and Philosophy Conference, University of Sydney.
• 2017, ‘RAND Corporation: The Uncertainties of Certain Death, The Invention of Collateral Damage Workshop, Western Sydney University.
• 2017, ‘Palestine and the Humanitarian Imaginary’, Palestine in the International Imaginary 1987-2017, University of Sydney.
• 2016, ‘Politics and Form’, Historical Materialism Conference, Sydney.
• 2016 ‘Think Tanks and the Rise of Neoliberalism’ Australian Political Science Association Conference, University of New South Wales.
• 2015 ‘Praxis: Between Marxism and Pragmatism’, Antonio Gramsci and the Question of Method’ Workshop, University of Sydney.