Sunera Thobani
Queer Necropolitics
by Silvia Posocco, Aren Aizura, Elijah A Edelman, Morgan Bassichis, and Sunera Thobani
This book comes at a time when the intrinsic and self-evident value of queer rights and protectio more This book comes at a time when the intrinsic and self-evident value of queer rights and protections, from gay marriage to hate crimes, is increasingly put in question. It assembles writings that explore the new queer vitalities within their wider context of structural violence and neglect. Moving between diverse geopolitical contexts – the US and the UK, Guatemala and Palestine, the Philippines, Iran and Israel – the chapters in this volume interrogate claims to queerness in the face(s) of death, both spectacular and everyday.
Queer Necropolitics mobilises the concept of ‘necropolitics’ in order to illuminate everyday death worlds, from more expected sites such as war, torture or imperial invasion to the mundane and normalised violence of racism and gender normativity, the market, and the prison-industrial complex. Contributors here interrogate the distinction between valuable and pathological lives by attending to the symbiotic co-constitution of queer
| Intro | Feminist sociologist， academic， and activist |
| Is | Activist Feminist Sociologist Academic |
| From | Tanzania |
| Type | Activism Education Social science |
| Gender | female |
| Birth | ， Tanzania |
| Age | 64 years |
| Education |
Sunera Thobani (born ) is a feminist sociologist， academic， and activist. Her research interests include critical race theory， postcolonial feminism， anti-imperialism， Islamophobia， Indigeneity， and the War on Terror. She is currently an associate professor at the Institute for Gender， Race， Sexuality and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia. Thobani is also a founding member of Researchers and Academics of Colour for Equality/Equity (R.A.C.E.)， the former president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women (NAC)， and the director for the Centre for Race， Autobiography， Gender， and Age (RAGA).
Early life and education
Thobani was born in in Tanzania to parents of South Asian descent. After spending her childhood in East Africa， she attended Middlesex University in England， completing her bachelor&#;s degree in In ， Thobani received a master&#;s degree from University of Colorado in the United States. Deciding to
Sunera Thobani
I am a Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. My scholarship is located at the intersection of the Social Sciences and Humanities. I study and work on critical race, postcolonial, transnational and feminist theory; intersectionality, social movements and critical social theory; colonialism, indigeneity and racial violence; globalization, citizenship and migration; South Asian women's, gender and sexuality studies; representations of Islam and Muslims in South Asian and Western media; and Muslim Women, Islamophobia and the war on terror.
The geographical areas of my research include Canada, the US, South Asia and the South Asian diaspora.
My academic work is informed by a commitment to the scholarship of engagement and by my activism in the anti-racist, feminist and anti-war movements.
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Biography:
Sunera Thobani is Associate Professor at the Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of British Columbia. Prior to coming to UBC she was the Ruth Wynn Woodward Endowed Professor in Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University (). Dr. Thobani was the Lansdowne Scholar in Residence at the School of Social Work, University of Victoria (), and the Robert Sutherland Visitor at Queen’s University (). Since her appointment at UBC, Dr. Thobani has been committed to using an interdisciplinary approach in her teaching and research, and to maintaining her involvement in community and social justice activities. Dr. Thobani's academic publications include articles in journals such as Canadian Woman Studies, Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal, Journal of Canadian Women and the Law, Refuge, Feminist Theory and Race & Class. Her research focuses on globalization, citizenship, migration and race and gender relations. Her book, Exalted Subjects: Studies in the Making of Race and Nation in Canada, was by the University of Toronto Press (), and her current research projects focus on Gender, Race, Globalization and Media Representations of th
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