hisham.bustani
Hisham Bustani
hisham.bustani@sciencespo.frHisham Bustani is a scholar of political theory, decolonial/postcolonial studies, and energy studies. He is the author of (Dys)Functional Polities: The Limits of Politics in the Postcolonial Arab Region, a two-volume Arabic book of postcolonial-decolonial studies, drawing on a broad range of disciplines (anthropology, history, geography, the social and political sciences, studies of social movements and protest, and of state and state formation, and Gramscian studies), exploring the reasons behind the stagnation facing movements of change in the Arab region, and how international actors and global power politics define what a state is.
He holds a PhD in Politics from the University of Westminster, London, and is currently a researcher on the political economy of energy in the Middle East at Sciences Po’s Center for International Research (CERI), Paris, in an affiliation with the French Institute of the Near East (Ifpo). Hisham is also an award-winning author of numerous books of short fiction, poetry, and hybrids, the latest of which is The Monotonous Chaos of Existence, and writes about urban transformations and malformations of his hometown Amman.
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Teaching
International Relations and Dynamics of State Formation in the Middle East, Sciences Po - PSIA, Master's level
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Languages
Arabic (mother language), English (advanced)
Bustani, H. (forthcoming) “Preparing for Revolutionary Times? Chronic Crisis of Authority and Constructive Subversion in Contemporary Jordan”, Interventions: The International Journal of Postcolonial Studies.
لبستاني، هشام (قيد النشر). "إخضاع المنظور: الترجمة وتحرير النصوص كإعادة إنتاج أورو-أميركيّة للأدب العربيّ." المستقبل العربي
[Bustani, H. (forthcoming). “Subاjugation of Worldview: Translation and Editing as a Euro-American Reproduction of Arabic Literature.” Al-Mustaqbal Al-Arabi.]
البستاني، هشام (2024). "الحداثة المُتخيّلة والرّهان على السلطة: المثقّف كظاهرة (ما بعد) استعماريّة، والمفكّر الممارس كإمكانيّة تحرريّة." المستقبل العربي 548 (47)، تشرين الأول 2024. ص.ص. 61-79
[Bustani, H. (2024). “Imagined Modernity and Allying with Authority: al-Muthaqqaf as a Postcolonial Phenomenon.” Al-Mustaqbal Al-Arabi (47) 548, pp. 61-79 (in Arabic).]
البستاني، هشام (2023). "طرد العقول لا هجرتها: التركة الاستعماريّة، والكيانات الوظيفية، وتدمير آفاق التحديث والإبداع." المستقبل العربي 533 (46)، تموز 2023. ص.ص. 134-140
[Bustani, H. (2023). “Brain Drain or Brain Expulsion? Colonial Heritage, (Dys)functional Polities, and the Elimination of Creative Horizons,” Al-Mustaqbal Al-Arabi (46) 533, pp. 134-140 (in Arabic).]
Bustani, H. (2023). “(Dys)Functional Polities: The Limits of Politics in the Postcolonial Arab Region.” PhD diss., University of Westminster Research Repository. DOI: https://doi.org/10.34737/w67yx.
البستاني، هشام. (2021). الكيانات الوظيفيّة: حدود الممارسة السياسية في المنطقة العربية ما بعد الاستعمار (جزءان)، بيروت: المؤسسة العربية للدراسات والنشر
[Bustani, H. (2021). (Dys)Functional Polities: The Limits of Politics in the Postcolonial Arab Region (two volumes, in Arabic). Beirut: Arab Institute for Research and Publishing. 532 pp.]
Bustani, H. (2019). "Exposing Jordan’s Gas Deal with Israel," translated by Vickie Langohr. Middle East Report 291, pp. 35-39.
Bustani, H. (2014). “Dissonances of the Arab Left,” translated by Samir Taha. Radical Philosophy 184, pp. 35-41.
Bustani, H. (2012). “Pas de soulévement en Jordanie: les raisons d’une impasse,” traduit par Hadjar Aouardji, Les Cahiers de l’Orient 107, pp. 115-129.
