Fanon's Psychopolitics & Empire's Anxiety w/ Sarah Jilani

Guerrilla History

Henry

Education, History

4.8 • 669 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2026

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring back our friend and comrade, Sarah Jilani (whom you will remember from our episode Subjectivity and Decolonization in the Post-Independence Novel and Film) to discuss one of our favorite topics - Fanon. Specifically here, we are talking about two articles that Sarah wrote, the first being Fanon's psycho-politics of decolonisation, a fascinating scholarly article that came out in the Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE). We then talk about a ROAPE blog piece that Sarah cowrote titled Fanon, Gaza and the anxieties of empire which was a response to members of the British government and diplomatic corps denigrating Fanon and even calling out Sarah by name in doing so. A really fascinating discussion, and the articles are really great too so be sure to check them out!

Sarah Jilani is a Lecturer in English at City, University of London. She is the author of several articles on postcolonial literatures and film that have appeared in Textual Practice, Interventions, and Journal of Commonwealth Literature, amongst others, and a widely published culture journalist. Be sure to check out her book Decolonisation in the Post-Independence Novel and Film and her show The Global Gaze. Keep up to date with Sarah by checking out her website for more of her work, and follow her on twitter @sarahjilani.

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0:00.0	You don't remember Den Van Boo?
0:09.0	No!
0:10.0	The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa.
0:15.0	They didn't have anything but a rank.
0:17.0	The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on.
0:28.6	Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the
0:37.8	present. I'm one of your co-hosts, Henry Huckamacki, joined as usual by my co-host, Professor
0:43.2	Adnan Hussein, historian and director of the School of Religion at Queens University in Ontario,
0:47.8	Canada. Hello, Adnan. How are you doing today? I'm doing really well, Henry. It's great to be
0:53.8	with you. Nice to see you as well. It's been
0:55.7	about a week or so since I last saw you. So nice to see you again. And we are joined, rejoined,
1:02.6	I should say, by a great friend of ours. But before I reintroduce this guest, I want to remind
1:08.3	the listeners that they can help support the show and allow us to continue
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1:31.3	So we are truly 100% listeners supported.
1:35.3	Now, as I mentioned, we have a returning guest.
1:38.3	We have my dear friend, Sarah Jalani.
1:40.3	Sarah, it's really great to have you back on.
1:43.3	Sarah is a lecture in, in English, at
1:45.9	City University of London. We've had her on the show before, and we have plans to bring her
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