Khaled Aboudahham

Visiting Scholar

Khaled Aboudahham is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Kuwait University. He holds a PhD and MA in Political Science from the University of Connecticut, with subfields in International Relations and Political Theory, and a BA in Political Science from Kuwait University. His dissertation, A Theory of the Forever War: How the Global War on Terror Is Waged to Last, develops a theory of late-modern warfare that examines how the pursuit of security and the management of uncertainty have expanded warfare beyond the battlefield and reconfigured the relationship between war and peace. He is currently revising the dissertation into a book.

His research brings together critical war and security studies, political theory, and interdisciplinary perspectives on space, technology, and governance to examine the administrative, algorithmic, and infrastructural forms through which political order is organized and imagined. Central to his work is the concept of liminality, particularly as a way of understanding how administrative and digital forms of power produce contingent political conditions. More recently, his research has turned to reconstruction and stabilization planning, examining how anticipatory governance and administrative infrastructures shape political futures and the management of uncertainty. He is extending these questions through ongoing research drawing on fugitive archives and interface ethnography.

Participating Years

2026–2027

Radical Imagination: Temporalities and Geographies of Struggle

In a world of deepening crises, of socioeconomic inequities, of environmental collapse, of resurgent fascism and institutionalized authoritarianism, what is the place of radical imagination in creating more just worlds? While some think of the work of imagination as being outside of—at a distance to, or even in a different temporality than—everyday struggle, we want to shine a light on the work of radical practice as a form of imagination. We look to anticapitalist and antiracist organizing and thought, and the complex practices in time and place through which change is not only presented and represented but produced.