Edward Said Award
In 2016, the annual Edward Said Award was set up and awarded to the best Graduate Paper by the Global Development Section (GDS) of the International Studies Association (ISA) in collaboration with Third World Quarterly (TWQ).
The award honours the intellectual legacy of Edward Said (one of the founding TWQ editorial board members) and to recognise outstanding Graduate Research. TWQ sponsors the reception after the award every year.
Edward Said was a Palestinian-American academic, literary critic and political activist who is best known for his book Orientalism, a critical perspective on how the Western World perceives the East.
Image: Edward Said, Lannan Foundation
The award winner receives a grant of US$500 and is encouraged to promptly submit their winning article to TWQ for publication, where it will receive rapid peer review and feedback. Once published, award winning articles benefit from wide dissemination and visibility through the journal’s extensive platforms and networks.
If you want to find out more about the award visit the Edward Said Award page on the ISA Global Development Studies (GDS).
Award Winners
- 2022 Sabrina Axster: “Managing’ a World in Motion: The Racial Capitalist and Colonial Roots of Immigration Detention”
- 2021 Laura Jung: “Made to ‘Remain in the Concentration Camp’ – Psychiatric Treatment of Holocaust Survivors in Post-WWII West-Germany.”
- 2019 Columba Achilleos-Sarll: Seeing the Women, Peace and Security Agenda: Exploring Visual Representations of Race and Gender, published in International Affairs 96(6).
- 2018 Maria José Méndez Gutiérrez: The River Told Me”: Rethinking Intersectionality from the World of Berta Cáceres, published in Capitalism Nature Socialism 29(1).
- 2017 Ida Danewid: A Drowned Memory Space: White Innocence and the Politics of Mourning in the Black Mediterranean, published in Third World Quarterly 38(7).
- 2016 Timothy Seidel: Occupied Territory Is Occupied Territory’: James Baldwin, Palestine and the Possibilities of Transnational Solidarity, published in Third World Quarterly 37(9).
Image: Book Cover of Edward Said’s Orientalism (Penguin, 2019 )
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