Hassan Bashir

I am a political scientist with teaching and research interests in global political thought, moral dimensions of globalization, and environmentalism in the Global South. My work focuses on the formation of the political in the context of intercultural interactions between the West and its cultural others. My earlier published work argues that our relationship with our cultural others provides the continuous impetus for renewing and sustaining the normative traditions to which we belong. As well, these intercultural interactions necessarily result in the emergence of hybrid understandings of the political and an expansion of horizons for the interacting parties at both ends of the contact equation. I am a Fulbright scholar and an H. B. Earhart fellow and have received research funding from national funding agencies in the Middle East and the US to support my research.

My current research has a twin focus on comparative political theory and the global politics of the environment and sustainability. The developing focus of this work is on environmentalism in the Global South from the perspective of identity formation and climate change adaptability under conditions of extreme political, social, cultural, and economic affordability. I am interested in questions of power and politics: Are resource governance struggles about resources at all? How does a concern for the environment impact traditional power alignments? Can we achieve global environmental justice without addressing past injustices to marginalized communities? How do religious and cultural identities impact individual, communal, and societal approaches to natural and ecological phenomena?  Is climate change a political or ethical concern?

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