Ali
Biographic Data
| ID | 34561 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ali |
| FAMILY NAME | Ali |
| SIGNATURE | ALI |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8616-0376 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 128 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Ethics and social research
Visual analysis
Can the student speak? Voicing identities and experience in UK higher education
In recent years, HEIs have been under increased pressure to address persistent and significant educational inequalities. Within the current context of managerialism and ‘audit', universities are required to demonstrate how they are working to improve educational outcomes. We have also witnessed a return to research and policy which draws on the concept of student voice. In this paper, we question the epistemological foundations and effects of suc…
Mixed-race thought - making and unmaking (mixed) race
Across the globe, racial and ethnic categories continue to play a central role in the regulation and organisation of social and political life. Mixed-race in all its forms requires us to move beyond categorical thinking and question epistemological and methodological singularities. Andrew Sanchez's development of 'mixed race thought' (MRT) suggests a pluralist theory and methodology with radical potential. The papers here take a critical approach…
Porous feminism
Anne Murcott
Meaning-focused coping as a cultural process
Chronic Pain of Race and Citizenship
This article is about the torturous and protracted experiences of racialization and migration bureaucracies. I call these experiences of chronic pain. This is to (1) convey the damage they cause in the corporeal and social life of the racialized and the noncitizen and (2) to protest how in such experiences, the subject withdraws from politics. The article is based on ethnographic research at a support group for queer migrants in Helsinki. I locat…
My Gender is Precolonial
This paper takes up the visual art piece “Diwata: Queering Pre-Colonial Phillipine Mythology” by the artists Renz (he/him/they/them), Natu (he/him), and Ram (she/her) at the 2021 Southeast Asia Queer Cultural Festival. I argue that in performing tactics of transtemporal minoritarian aesthetics, the artists destabilize contemporary cultural acceptance of anti-queer and anti-trans norms. Engaging the transformative artistic embodiments of pre-colon…
Conceptualizing displacement
The paper conceptualises displacement as a process of coercive disruption to valued ways of living and functioning. It does so by engaging with coercion scholarship from moral philosophy, supported by empirical research about displacement in occupied Iraq. Coercion and force are largely taken for granted in refugee and forced migration studies, and in migration studies. The paper also considers recent scholarship on voluntariness in migration and…
Managing racism? Race equality and decolonial educational futures
The Office for Students is now holding UK universities to account for their failures to address racial inequalities, and the Teaching Excellence Framework is bringing the student experience to the fore in assessing higher education institutions. Racial inequalities persist in spite of decades of legislation aiming to promote equality and end discrimination. The paper considers two main areas of racial equalities work, namely, (1) anti-racist and …
Race, Nation, and Refuge
Siliconicity
This essay theorizes through the performance and video art of the artist Yozmit. Working through an idea of trans Asian futurity, it builds on queer of color critiques, trans studies, and feminist scholarship in order to think through a transnational approach to Asian and Asian American performance as cultural intervention. In this endeavor, the essay offers the concept of siliconicity to draw out the potential of Yozmit’s performances to enact a…
AzizAnsariToo
By attending to racialized tropes of masculinity and sexuality in U.S. media, this article explores how the #MeToo response to comedian Aziz Ansari is supported by a history of Asian American masculine media representation in the United States. The article forwards two theoretical concepts—Desi masculinity and performing funny cute—to explain the cultural response to Ansari as simultaneously desexualized as sexually undesirable and sexually devia…
Geographies of Occupation in South Asia
Nosheen Ali, Mona Bhan, Sahana Ghosh, Hafsa Kanjwal, Zunaira Komal, Deepti Misri, Shruti Mukherjee, Nishant Upadhyay, Saiba Varma, Ather Zia, Geographies of Occupation in South Asia, Feminist Studies, Vol. 45, No. 2-3, Indigenous Feminisms in Settler Contexts (2019), pp. 574-580
Health equity monitoring for healthcare quality assurance
Population-wide health equity monitoring remains isolated from mainstream healthcare quality assurance. As a result, healthcare organizations remain ill-informed about the health equity impacts of their decisions - despite becoming increasingly well-informed about quality of care for the average patient. We present a new and improved analytical approach to integrating health equity into mainstream healthcare quality assurance, illustrate how this…
The fetish of the click
This paper examines the fetish of the click through a technofeminist history of the computer mouse as vulva. It argues that this material turn is a necessary corrective to abstractions of the click in contemporary media studies and the long history of phallic technological practices. Drawing from anthropological, Marxist, and psychoanalytic approaches to fetish, this paper enables a rethinking of the computer mouse in the materiality of what it i…
Multicultural families
In 2010, the Coalition government announced its plans for adoption reform which included ‘removing barriers’ to transracial adoption. The government has blamed social workers’ looking for ‘perfect ethnic matches’ for denying black and minority ethnic children placements with ‘loving and stable families’. The paper draws upon qualitative research with professionals and parents, which shows that the government has failed to take into account the co…
Governing multicultural populations and family life
Shortly after coming to power in Britain, the Conservative-Liberal Democratic alliance placed family life at the heart of their political agenda, and set out their plans to reform adoption. The paper draws upon debates about the reforms and considers them in articulation with concerns about health of the nation expressed in political pronouncements on 'broken Britain' and the failures of 'state multiculturalism'. The paper considers the debates a…
Strike a Pose
Impeccable advice
At the time when Diana was writing A woman's guide to doctoral studies (2001), she was supervising a number of female doctoral students. She drew on some of their experiences in the writing of the book, and they in return benefited from the extensive insights she had about the politics of academic life that she portrays in her book. In this article, two of those students will reflect on the experience of working with Diana during this period of t…
The Sense of Memory
In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in the role of collective memory in ethno-national projects. In addition, there has been an expansion of research utilising memory work and auto/biographical methods, which have been particularly effective in the writing of feminists of colour. The paper is prompted by a return to Avtar Brah's 'The Scent of Memory' that it uses as a starting point to explore the relationships between competin…
The Creolisation of London Kinship
THE CREOLISATION OF LONDON KINSHIP: MIXED AFRICAN-CARIBBEAN AND WHITE BRITISH EXTENDED FAMILIES, 1950–2003." Ethnic and Racial Studies, 34(12), pp. 2215–2216
Intersectionality, Black British feminism and resistance in education
This roundtable discussion was the opening plenary panel of the 7th Gender and Education Association Conference, entitled 'Regulation and Resistance', held at the Institute of Education, London, 25–27 March 2009. The discussion centred on exploring the historical development and continuing relevance of intersectional and Black British feminist approaches for contemporary debates in gender and education. Notes 1. As described in the introduction t…
Race, gender and educational desire
To Be a Girl
The problem of theorising multiplicities is one with which many feminists are currently engaged. This paper utilises recent feminist writing on social class to investigate the interplay of ethnicity, 'race' and class in the production of femininities. Drawing on ethnographic data gathered with children aged 8-11 years old, it argues that politically engaged cultural studies of class have most to offer in terms of analyses of the identifications o…
Feminism and Postcolonial
This article charts a partial and situated engagement with some of the debates about the development of feminist and postcolonial theory. It looks at the importance of maintaining an engagement with both these perspectives in contemporary struggles around knowledge/politics in the (British) academy. In addition it discusses the ways in which the conjunction of feminist with postcolonial provides impetus for new methodological agendas in future re…
Conceptualizing displacement
The paper conceptualises displacement as a process of coercive disruption to valued ways of living and functioning. It does so by engaging with coercion scholarship from moral philosophy, supported by empirical research about displacement in occupied Iraq. Coercion and force are largely taken for granted in refugee and forced migration studies, and in migration studies. The paper also considers recent scholarship on voluntariness in migration and…
Racializing research
This article engages with the issue of power relations within ethnographic research into 'race'. Taking as its starting point the importance of understanding processes of racialization, it draws upon ethnographic work with children in order to explore the role of reflexivity in managing issues of power in knowledge production. Using the concept of 'subjectivation' it argues that we cannot ever hope to escape (non)hierarchical power relations in r…
Managing racism? Race equality and decolonial educational futures
The Office for Students is now holding UK universities to account for their failures to address racial inequalities, and the Teaching Excellence Framework is bringing the student experience to the fore in assessing higher education institutions. Racial inequalities persist in spite of decades of legislation aiming to promote equality and end discrimination. The paper considers two main areas of racial equalities work, namely, (1) anti-racist and …
Black feminist praxis
This essay takes a personal, reflexive approach to the positioning of black feminism in higher education in the UK. It asks how we might best understand the political economy of black feminist knowledge in higher education. It argues that challenges for black British feminist pedagogies and embodied positionality are best explored through postcolonial paradigms, and coalitions amongst black feminists continue to be of vital importance in contempo…
Multicultural families
In 2010, the Coalition government announced its plans for adoption reform which included ‘removing barriers’ to transracial adoption. The government has blamed social workers’ looking for ‘perfect ethnic matches’ for denying black and minority ethnic children placements with ‘loving and stable families’. The paper draws upon qualitative research with professionals and parents, which shows that the government has failed to take into account the co…
Impeccable advice
At the time when Diana was writing A woman's guide to doctoral studies (2001), she was supervising a number of female doctoral students. She drew on some of their experiences in the writing of the book, and they in return benefited from the extensive insights she had about the politics of academic life that she portrays in her book. In this article, two of those students will reflect on the experience of working with Diana during this period of t…
Intersectionality, Black British feminism and resistance in education
This roundtable discussion was the opening plenary panel of the 7th Gender and Education Association Conference, entitled 'Regulation and Resistance', held at the Institute of Education, London, 25–27 March 2009. The discussion centred on exploring the historical development and continuing relevance of intersectional and Black British feminist approaches for contemporary debates in gender and education. Notes 1. As described in the introduction t…
Governing multicultural populations and family life
Shortly after coming to power in Britain, the Conservative-Liberal Democratic alliance placed family life at the heart of their political agenda, and set out their plans to reform adoption. The paper draws upon debates about the reforms and considers them in articulation with concerns about health of the nation expressed in political pronouncements on 'broken Britain' and the failures of 'state multiculturalism'. The paper considers the debates a…
The Sense of Memory
In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in the role of collective memory in ethno-national projects. In addition, there has been an expansion of research utilising memory work and auto/biographical methods, which have been particularly effective in the writing of feminists of colour. The paper is prompted by a return to Avtar Brah's 'The Scent of Memory' that it uses as a starting point to explore the relationships between competin…
Health equity monitoring for healthcare quality assurance
Population-wide health equity monitoring remains isolated from mainstream healthcare quality assurance. As a result, healthcare organizations remain ill-informed about the health equity impacts of their decisions - despite becoming increasingly well-informed about quality of care for the average patient. We present a new and improved analytical approach to integrating health equity into mainstream healthcare quality assurance, illustrate how this…
Strike a Pose
Friendship and Fandom
This paper explores the relationships between knowledge of popular culture and power negotiations among young children's friendship groups and derives from a research project on the identity formations of 'mixed race' children. The paper begins with a consideration of existing work on music, ethnicity and cultural identities and how this is implicated in formations of 'imagined communities' (Anderson, 1991, Imagined Communities , Verso). Next, I …
Can the student speak? Voicing identities and experience in UK higher education
In recent years, HEIs have been under increased pressure to address persistent and significant educational inequalities. Within the current context of managerialism and ‘audit', universities are required to demonstrate how they are working to improve educational outcomes. We have also witnessed a return to research and policy which draws on the concept of student voice. In this paper, we question the epistemological foundations and effects of suc…
Mixed-race thought - making and unmaking (mixed) race
Across the globe, racial and ethnic categories continue to play a central role in the regulation and organisation of social and political life. Mixed-race in all its forms requires us to move beyond categorical thinking and question epistemological and methodological singularities. Andrew Sanchez's development of 'mixed race thought' (MRT) suggests a pluralist theory and methodology with radical potential. The papers here take a critical approach…
Meaning-focused coping as a cultural process
Race, Nation, and Refuge
AzizAnsariToo
By attending to racialized tropes of masculinity and sexuality in U.S. media, this article explores how the #MeToo response to comedian Aziz Ansari is supported by a history of Asian American masculine media representation in the United States. The article forwards two theoretical concepts—Desi masculinity and performing funny cute—to explain the cultural response to Ansari as simultaneously desexualized as sexually undesirable and sexually devia…
Geographies of Occupation in South Asia
Nosheen Ali, Mona Bhan, Sahana Ghosh, Hafsa Kanjwal, Zunaira Komal, Deepti Misri, Shruti Mukherjee, Nishant Upadhyay, Saiba Varma, Ather Zia, Geographies of Occupation in South Asia, Feminist Studies, Vol. 45, No. 2-3, Indigenous Feminisms in Settler Contexts (2019), pp. 574-580
The fetish of the click
This paper examines the fetish of the click through a technofeminist history of the computer mouse as vulva. It argues that this material turn is a necessary corrective to abstractions of the click in contemporary media studies and the long history of phallic technological practices. Drawing from anthropological, Marxist, and psychoanalytic approaches to fetish, this paper enables a rethinking of the computer mouse in the materiality of what it i…
The Creolisation of London Kinship
THE CREOLISATION OF LONDON KINSHIP: MIXED AFRICAN-CARIBBEAN AND WHITE BRITISH EXTENDED FAMILIES, 1950–2003." Ethnic and Racial Studies, 34(12), pp. 2215–2216
Friendship and Fandom
This paper explores the relationships between knowledge of popular culture and power negotiations among young children's friendship groups and derives from a research project on the identity formations of 'mixed race' children. The paper begins with a consideration of existing work on music, ethnicity and cultural identities and how this is implicated in formations of 'imagined communities' (Anderson, 1991, Imagined Communities , Verso). Next, I …
To Be a Girl
The problem of theorising multiplicities is one with which many feminists are currently engaged. This paper utilises recent feminist writing on social class to investigate the interplay of ethnicity, 'race' and class in the production of femininities. Drawing on ethnographic data gathered with children aged 8-11 years old, it argues that politically engaged cultural studies of class have most to offer in terms of analyses of the identifications o…
Changing Women, Unchanged Men? Sociological Perspectives on Gender in a Post-industrial Society
Uses of the Exotic
Racializing research
This article engages with the issue of power relations within ethnographic research into 'race'. Taking as its starting point the importance of understanding processes of racialization, it draws upon ethnographic work with children in order to explore the role of reflexivity in managing issues of power in knowledge production. Using the concept of 'subjectivation' it argues that we cannot ever hope to escape (non)hierarchical power relations in r…
Crossing lines
Feminism and Postcolonial
This article charts a partial and situated engagement with some of the debates about the development of feminist and postcolonial theory. It looks at the importance of maintaining an engagement with both these perspectives in contemporary struggles around knowledge/politics in the (British) academy. In addition it discusses the ways in which the conjunction of feminist with postcolonial provides impetus for new methodological agendas in future re…
Troubling times
These are ‘troubled times’. For some, such troubles are felt immediately in and on the body, for others they are filtered through media and representations. But it is not only the ‘trouble’ itself that forms the object of analysis for Judith Butler's paper, it is also the ‘times’; and the plurality of the temporal is key. For Butler, it might be said that time itself, specifically secular time, is the trouble; but a different conception of time m…
Black feminist praxis
This essay takes a personal, reflexive approach to the positioning of black feminism in higher education in the UK. It asks how we might best understand the political economy of black feminist knowledge in higher education. It argues that challenges for black British feminist pedagogies and embodied positionality are best explored through postcolonial paradigms, and coalitions amongst black feminists continue to be of vital importance in contempo…
Intersectionality, Black British feminism and resistance in education
This roundtable discussion was the opening plenary panel of the 7th Gender and Education Association Conference, entitled 'Regulation and Resistance', held at the Institute of Education, London, 25–27 March 2009. The discussion centred on exploring the historical development and continuing relevance of intersectional and Black British feminist approaches for contemporary debates in gender and education. Notes 1. As described in the introduction t…
Race, gender and educational desire
The Creolisation of London Kinship
THE CREOLISATION OF LONDON KINSHIP: MIXED AFRICAN-CARIBBEAN AND WHITE BRITISH EXTENDED FAMILIES, 1950–2003." Ethnic and Racial Studies, 34(12), pp. 2215–2216
Impeccable advice
At the time when Diana was writing A woman's guide to doctoral studies (2001), she was supervising a number of female doctoral students. She drew on some of their experiences in the writing of the book, and they in return benefited from the extensive insights she had about the politics of academic life that she portrays in her book. In this article, two of those students will reflect on the experience of working with Diana during this period of t…
The Sense of Memory
In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in the role of collective memory in ethno-national projects. In addition, there has been an expansion of research utilising memory work and auto/biographical methods, which have been particularly effective in the writing of feminists of colour. The paper is prompted by a return to Avtar Brah's 'The Scent of Memory' that it uses as a starting point to explore the relationships between competin…
Strike a Pose
Multicultural families
In 2010, the Coalition government announced its plans for adoption reform which included ‘removing barriers’ to transracial adoption. The government has blamed social workers’ looking for ‘perfect ethnic matches’ for denying black and minority ethnic children placements with ‘loving and stable families’. The paper draws upon qualitative research with professionals and parents, which shows that the government has failed to take into account the co…
Governing multicultural populations and family life
Shortly after coming to power in Britain, the Conservative-Liberal Democratic alliance placed family life at the heart of their political agenda, and set out their plans to reform adoption. The paper draws upon debates about the reforms and considers them in articulation with concerns about health of the nation expressed in political pronouncements on 'broken Britain' and the failures of 'state multiculturalism'. The paper considers the debates a…
The fetish of the click
This paper examines the fetish of the click through a technofeminist history of the computer mouse as vulva. It argues that this material turn is a necessary corrective to abstractions of the click in contemporary media studies and the long history of phallic technological practices. Drawing from anthropological, Marxist, and psychoanalytic approaches to fetish, this paper enables a rethinking of the computer mouse in the materiality of what it i…
Health equity monitoring for healthcare quality assurance
Population-wide health equity monitoring remains isolated from mainstream healthcare quality assurance. As a result, healthcare organizations remain ill-informed about the health equity impacts of their decisions - despite becoming increasingly well-informed about quality of care for the average patient. We present a new and improved analytical approach to integrating health equity into mainstream healthcare quality assurance, illustrate how this…
AzizAnsariToo
By attending to racialized tropes of masculinity and sexuality in U.S. media, this article explores how the #MeToo response to comedian Aziz Ansari is supported by a history of Asian American masculine media representation in the United States. The article forwards two theoretical concepts—Desi masculinity and performing funny cute—to explain the cultural response to Ansari as simultaneously desexualized as sexually undesirable and sexually devia…
Geographies of Occupation in South Asia
Nosheen Ali, Mona Bhan, Sahana Ghosh, Hafsa Kanjwal, Zunaira Komal, Deepti Misri, Shruti Mukherjee, Nishant Upadhyay, Saiba Varma, Ather Zia, Geographies of Occupation in South Asia, Feminist Studies, Vol. 45, No. 2-3, Indigenous Feminisms in Settler Contexts (2019), pp. 574-580
Siliconicity
This essay theorizes through the performance and video art of the artist Yozmit. Working through an idea of trans Asian futurity, it builds on queer of color critiques, trans studies, and feminist scholarship in order to think through a transnational approach to Asian and Asian American performance as cultural intervention. In this endeavor, the essay offers the concept of siliconicity to draw out the potential of Yozmit’s performances to enact a…
Race, Nation, and Refuge
Managing racism? Race equality and decolonial educational futures
The Office for Students is now holding UK universities to account for their failures to address racial inequalities, and the Teaching Excellence Framework is bringing the student experience to the fore in assessing higher education institutions. Racial inequalities persist in spite of decades of legislation aiming to promote equality and end discrimination. The paper considers two main areas of racial equalities work, namely, (1) anti-racist and …
My Gender is Precolonial
This paper takes up the visual art piece “Diwata: Queering Pre-Colonial Phillipine Mythology” by the artists Renz (he/him/they/them), Natu (he/him), and Ram (she/her) at the 2021 Southeast Asia Queer Cultural Festival. I argue that in performing tactics of transtemporal minoritarian aesthetics, the artists destabilize contemporary cultural acceptance of anti-queer and anti-trans norms. Engaging the transformative artistic embodiments of pre-colon…
Sociology (24 works) · Gender Studies (21 works) · Political science (21 works) · Gender Studies (18 works) · Law (13 works) · Law (13 works) · Politics (12 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Race (biology (8 works) · Aesthetics (7 works)