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Islamophobia in the UK
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Dr. Mona Makinejad
Lecturer | Sociology and Social Policy | University of Leeds
Mona is a Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds. She completed her BA in Sociology at the University of Tehran, followed by her MA and PhD at the University of Leeds. Her doctoral thesis, Kemalism: The Grammar of Racism in Iran, examines the traces of Islamophobia in the formation of racism and racial identities in Iran. Her research interests include Critical Muslim Studies, decoloniality, Islamophobia, nationalism, and national historiography.
Johanna Loock
Lecturer | School of Sociology and Social Policy | University of Leeds
Johanna is a Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds. She holds an MA in Islamic Studies with a course specialisation in ‘Islam in Europe’ from the Freie Universität Berlin. During her MA, a scholarship allowed her to pursue Religious Studies at New York University and Columbia University. Before that, she gained her BA in Islamic Studies and Geography from the Universität Bern. Her research interests include Islamophobia, decoloniality, subtle forms of nationalism, (re-)construction of national identity, liberal democracy, and processes of racialisation.
Dr. Sheheen Kattiparambil
Lecturer | School of Sociology and Social Policy | University of Leeds
Sheheen holds a Masters in Modern Middle East from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, where his thesis focussed on a decolonial analysis of Persian Gulf piracy in the early nineteenth century. His doctoral thesis demonstrates the possibility of Islamism as a counter-hegemonic movement against forms of racialized governmentality in the context of Muslim political subjectivity in India in relation to Brahminism. His research interests and writings cover Islamophobia, decoloniality, South Asian studies, and speculative fiction.
Dr. Shvetal Vyas Pare
Casual Academic | Flinders University | South Australia
Shvetal teaches in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Flinders University in Australia. She is the book review editor of the journal ReOrient: The Journal of Critical Muslim Studies. She did her interdisciplinary thesis in colonial Indian history and literature at the Australian National University. She did her M.Phil and M.A. A at Delhi University. She has published academically in Modern Asian Studies and South Asia, and written a variety of commentaofies and blogs on different platforms. Her areas of interest are anti colonial, decolonial and postcolonial theories, critical race theory and Indigenous theories as theories of the Global South. She is also interested in popular fiction and media, especially film and television.
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