In Conversation with Yassir Morsi: Slow Ontology as Resistance

Yassir Morsi is an Adjunct Research Fellow at La Trobe University, Melbourne and a provisional psychologist at an Islamic academy in Australia. His main area of research is the critical analysis of contemporary racism and Islamophobia and is the author of the auto-ethnography, Radical Skin, Moderate Masks: De-radicalising the Muslim and Racism in Post-racial Societies, published in 2017 with Rowman & Littlefield. Debbie Bargallie engages in a conversation with Morsi about his work as an academic and lecturer and as a provisional psychologist at an Islamic academy in Australia. Morsi speaks about the ways he navigates spaces that uphold white supremacy by keeping ‘one foot in and one foot out’ of the academy and enacts the concept of slow ontology as a praxis of resistance.