Shela Sheikh

lecturer and researcher

Shela Sheikh is senior lecturer in international politics at the University of London Institute, Paris. She is committed to practices of editing and publishing and teaches and researches across the fields of post/decolonial cultural studies, environmental humanities, and international politics.

Sheikh is coeditor, with Ros Gray, of a special issue of Third Text entitled “The Wretched Earth: Botanical Conflicts and Artistic Interventions” (2018). She is currently working on a monograph, Rehearsing Environmental Justice (forthcoming), wherein the crime of ecocide, as a violation of both human and nonhuman rights, is examined in relation to a variety of forums for testimony.