hello, I’m rémy-paulin twahirwa and I’m a PhD Candidate in Sociology at LSE. ☞ More about me

From the series Destination Europe, 2015–2016, Jason Florio

Recent Entries in my Research Diary:

Published Online Elsewhere

How to Teach Repair into A Doomed World: From A Sociology of Doom to A Sociology of Repair

The best bookshops in Montreal, Canada

Author Q and A with editor Phil Crockett Thomas and contributors on Abolition Science Fiction

On the Destiny of our Species: Reading Octavia E. Butler’s Parable Series

Book Review: Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

Haunted Memory, Haunted Waters

Oui, nous vous voulons littéralement dire « abolir les frontières » (partie 1/3) (French)

The Bravest Road: Why BIPOC/IBPOC is essential to understanding Canada’s racial history

Book Review: The Death of Asylum: Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago by Alison Mountz

Selected Writings

Twahirwa, R.-P. (2023). Un monde sans police, un monde sans frontières. In Ricordeau, G. (ed.). 1312 raisons d’abolir la police, p.115-127. Lux Éditeur.

Twahirwa, R-P. (2021). Au sortir de la matrice crépusculaire. Liberté, 33. https://revueliberte.ca/article/1645/au-sortir-de-la-matrice-crepusculaire

Twahirwa, R-P. (2021, September 14th). Book Review: Empire’s Endgame: Racism and the British State by Gargi Bhattacharyya, Adam Elliott-Cooper, Sita Balani, Kerem Nişancıoğlu, Kojo Koram, Dalia Gebrial, Nadine El-Enany and Luke de Noronha. LSE Review of Books. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2021/09/14/book-review-empires-endgame-racism-and-the-british-state-by-gargi-bhattacharyya-adam-elliott-cooper-sita-balani-kerem-nisancioglu-kojo-koram-dalia-gebrial-nadine-el-enany-and-luke-de-n/

Twahirwa, R.P. (2021, June 7th). Book Review: The End of Asylum by Andrew I. Schoenholtz, Jaya Ramji-Nogales and Philip G. Schrag. LSE Review of Books. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2021/06/07/book-review-the-end-of-asylum-by-andrew-i-schoenholtz-jaya-ramji-nogales-and-philip-g-schrag/

Twahirwa, R.P. (2021, February 9th). Book Review: The Death of Asylum: Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago by Alison Mountz. LSE Review of Books. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2021/02/09/book-review-the-death-of-asylum-hidden-geographies-of-the-enforcement-archipelago-by-alison-mountz/

Twahirwa, R-P. (2018). Robyn Maynard, Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present (Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 2017), Canadian Journal of Women and Law, 30 (2), https://doi.org/10.3138/cjwl.30.3.012

Twahirwa, Rémy-Paulin (2017). Un débat national sur la valeur des vies : le cadrage des « vies noires », des « vies blanches » et de « toutes les vies » sur #blacklivesmatter, #whitelivesmatter et #alllivesmatter. Master thesis. Université du Québec à Montréal. https://archipel.uqam.ca/10465/

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