Nisha Kapoor
Biographic Data
| ID | 3580822 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nisha Kapoor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nisha |
| FAMILY NAME | Kapoor |
| SIGNATURE | KAPOOR N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9217-6051 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 159 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Sociology after the postcolonial
Julian Go's ‘Thinking Against Empire’ identifies the corpus of ‘anticolonial thought’ as being instructive for a wider rethinking of how sociology might rally its key conceptualisations of social relations. He insightfully identifies the marginalisation of such thinking from Sociology as an institutionalised discipline. In our response we take up some of the warnings Go provides in the closing sections of his essay—which concern the expanse of in…
Racism and the right
Challenging sections of the liberal mainstream who, horrified and disillusioned with the current levels of prominence and power of the far right, periodically express nostalgia for and a desire to return to the seemingly more tolerant era of centre-establishment politics, Reactionary Democracy by Aurelien Mondon and Aaron Winter effectively lays out the continuities and interdependencies between the liberal/conservative mainstream and the far rig…
Retracted Article
The following article has been retracted from publication in the Taylor & Francis journal New Genetics and Society. I. Priya, S. Sharma, I. Sharma, R. Mahajan and N. Kapoor, A review of 45 candidate genes: association of single nucleotide polymorphism to schizophrenia risk, New Genetics and Society https://doi.org/10.1080/14636778.2018.1481740. Version of Record published online 13 July 2018.The editorial office of the journal inadvertently proce…
Characterising Citizenship
Citizenship in the UK has in recent times been explicitly framed as a privilege not a right, granted selectively and withdrawn from some. There are several criteria that assist the government in distinguishing those deserving of British citizenship from those undeserving, one of the key ones being 'character'. The 'bad character' criterion can apply for multiple reasons from inconsistencies in immigration paperwork to direct or indirect political…
Unmaking citizens
With the intensifying securitization of Western borders in the global War on Terror citizenship rights are increasingly fragile. Measures introduced by the British government to deal with the terrorist threat at home include citizenship deprivation, temporary exclusion orders as well as passport removals. Whilst citizenship deprivation has provoked critique for its potential violations of international human rights conventions on statelessness, c…
Notes on theorizing racism and other things
In the spirit of ‘furthering debate and reflection’ in this response to Theories of Race and Ethnicity, we consider here the pertinence of the theme of resistance that occupies particular chapters within the collection and that has been central to key works within the wider race critical scholarship. Yet, when the larger field of contemporary race study is considered, we also note that other contiguous concerns – including capitalism, religion, n…
Racism and sociology
Removing the Right to Have Rights
The Muslims are coming! Islamaphobia, extremism and the domestic war on terror
The State of Race
This book analyses the nature of the contemporary racial state, exploring issues such as the nature of postraciality, racial neoliberalism, the state of multiculturalism and whiteness, alongside the f
Critical Consumers Run Riot in Manchester
This article attempts to unpack the manner in which the "shopping riots" narrative - a narrative of consumerism gone awry which became increasingly prominent in the popular characterisation of the 2011 riots - was operationalized. In doing so, we look to uncover the political saliences of the riots which this discursive terrain conceals. Whilst it is unsurprising that the violence which the riots staged met ritual denunciation, the historical sig…
Rethinking Empirical Approaches to Racial Segregation
Within empirical approaches to racial residential segregation, there has been a tendency to draw on the work of or influenced by Robert E. Park and his ecological hypothesis to explore social and spatial relations between members of different ethnic and racial groups, thus framing research within a race relations paradigm. This has promoted an analysis which naturalizes racial differences but which also sidelines structural considerations. In tur…
On the North West 10(12)
In April 2009, 12 men were arrested by the North-West Counter-Terrorism Unit on suspicion of participating in terrorism-related offences and plotting a major attack in North West England. Within 13 days of their arrest after no evidence was found against them, the charges were dropped, but 10 of them, all Pakistani nationals, remained in detention charged with violating their immigration status, and one of the students, Abid Naseer, has been call…
The advancement of racial neoliberalism in Britain
This paper explores the advancement of racial neoliberalism in Britain, and notes the genealogy of the evaporation of race post-Macpherson to demonstrate that, while the terms of race are increasingly erased from public and institutional discourse, the institutionalization of racism continues unbounded, legitimated through the 'War on Terror'. This dichotomy comes together under the 'Prevent' agenda which, as it maps onto 'Community Cohesion', ha…
Interrogating Segregation, Integration and the Community Cohesion Agenda
The notion of segregation in its current application in British social policy confuses rather than illuminates social processes. While its historical roots lie in a discriminatory practice that was legally instilled in the US, current usage implies the self-segregation of minority ethnic groups. This paper examines the historical legacy of segregation in the US and UK to argue that a shift has occurred in the discourse surrounding the integration…
The advancement of racial neoliberalism in Britain
This paper explores the advancement of racial neoliberalism in Britain, and notes the genealogy of the evaporation of race post-Macpherson to demonstrate that, while the terms of race are increasingly erased from public and institutional discourse, the institutionalization of racism continues unbounded, legitimated through the 'War on Terror'. This dichotomy comes together under the 'Prevent' agenda which, as it maps onto 'Community Cohesion', ha…
Interrogating Segregation, Integration and the Community Cohesion Agenda
The notion of segregation in its current application in British social policy confuses rather than illuminates social processes. While its historical roots lie in a discriminatory practice that was legally instilled in the US, current usage implies the self-segregation of minority ethnic groups. This paper examines the historical legacy of segregation in the US and UK to argue that a shift has occurred in the discourse surrounding the integration…
Unmaking citizens
With the intensifying securitization of Western borders in the global War on Terror citizenship rights are increasingly fragile. Measures introduced by the British government to deal with the terrorist threat at home include citizenship deprivation, temporary exclusion orders as well as passport removals. Whilst citizenship deprivation has provoked critique for its potential violations of international human rights conventions on statelessness, c…
Characterising Citizenship
Citizenship in the UK has in recent times been explicitly framed as a privilege not a right, granted selectively and withdrawn from some. There are several criteria that assist the government in distinguishing those deserving of British citizenship from those undeserving, one of the key ones being 'character'. The 'bad character' criterion can apply for multiple reasons from inconsistencies in immigration paperwork to direct or indirect political…
Rethinking Empirical Approaches to Racial Segregation
Within empirical approaches to racial residential segregation, there has been a tendency to draw on the work of or influenced by Robert E. Park and his ecological hypothesis to explore social and spatial relations between members of different ethnic and racial groups, thus framing research within a race relations paradigm. This has promoted an analysis which naturalizes racial differences but which also sidelines structural considerations. In tur…
Sociology after the postcolonial
Julian Go's ‘Thinking Against Empire’ identifies the corpus of ‘anticolonial thought’ as being instructive for a wider rethinking of how sociology might rally its key conceptualisations of social relations. He insightfully identifies the marginalisation of such thinking from Sociology as an institutionalised discipline. In our response we take up some of the warnings Go provides in the closing sections of his essay—which concern the expanse of in…
Notes on theorizing racism and other things
In the spirit of ‘furthering debate and reflection’ in this response to Theories of Race and Ethnicity, we consider here the pertinence of the theme of resistance that occupies particular chapters within the collection and that has been central to key works within the wider race critical scholarship. Yet, when the larger field of contemporary race study is considered, we also note that other contiguous concerns – including capitalism, religion, n…
Removing the Right to Have Rights
On the North West 10(12)
In April 2009, 12 men were arrested by the North-West Counter-Terrorism Unit on suspicion of participating in terrorism-related offences and plotting a major attack in North West England. Within 13 days of their arrest after no evidence was found against them, the charges were dropped, but 10 of them, all Pakistani nationals, remained in detention charged with violating their immigration status, and one of the students, Abid Naseer, has been call…
The Muslims are coming! Islamaphobia, extremism and the domestic war on terror
Interrogating Segregation, Integration and the Community Cohesion Agenda
The notion of segregation in its current application in British social policy confuses rather than illuminates social processes. While its historical roots lie in a discriminatory practice that was legally instilled in the US, current usage implies the self-segregation of minority ethnic groups. This paper examines the historical legacy of segregation in the US and UK to argue that a shift has occurred in the discourse surrounding the integration…
The State of Race
This book analyses the nature of the contemporary racial state, exploring issues such as the nature of postraciality, racial neoliberalism, the state of multiculturalism and whiteness, alongside the f
Critical Consumers Run Riot in Manchester
This article attempts to unpack the manner in which the "shopping riots" narrative - a narrative of consumerism gone awry which became increasingly prominent in the popular characterisation of the 2011 riots - was operationalized. In doing so, we look to uncover the political saliences of the riots which this discursive terrain conceals. Whilst it is unsurprising that the violence which the riots staged met ritual denunciation, the historical sig…
Rethinking Empirical Approaches to Racial Segregation
Within empirical approaches to racial residential segregation, there has been a tendency to draw on the work of or influenced by Robert E. Park and his ecological hypothesis to explore social and spatial relations between members of different ethnic and racial groups, thus framing research within a race relations paradigm. This has promoted an analysis which naturalizes racial differences but which also sidelines structural considerations. In tur…
On the North West 10(12)
In April 2009, 12 men were arrested by the North-West Counter-Terrorism Unit on suspicion of participating in terrorism-related offences and plotting a major attack in North West England. Within 13 days of their arrest after no evidence was found against them, the charges were dropped, but 10 of them, all Pakistani nationals, remained in detention charged with violating their immigration status, and one of the students, Abid Naseer, has been call…
The advancement of racial neoliberalism in Britain
This paper explores the advancement of racial neoliberalism in Britain, and notes the genealogy of the evaporation of race post-Macpherson to demonstrate that, while the terms of race are increasingly erased from public and institutional discourse, the institutionalization of racism continues unbounded, legitimated through the 'War on Terror'. This dichotomy comes together under the 'Prevent' agenda which, as it maps onto 'Community Cohesion', ha…
The Muslims are coming! Islamaphobia, extremism and the domestic war on terror
Removing the Right to Have Rights
Notes on theorizing racism and other things
In the spirit of ‘furthering debate and reflection’ in this response to Theories of Race and Ethnicity, we consider here the pertinence of the theme of resistance that occupies particular chapters within the collection and that has been central to key works within the wider race critical scholarship. Yet, when the larger field of contemporary race study is considered, we also note that other contiguous concerns – including capitalism, religion, n…
Racism and sociology
Retracted Article
The following article has been retracted from publication in the Taylor & Francis journal New Genetics and Society. I. Priya, S. Sharma, I. Sharma, R. Mahajan and N. Kapoor, A review of 45 candidate genes: association of single nucleotide polymorphism to schizophrenia risk, New Genetics and Society https://doi.org/10.1080/14636778.2018.1481740. Version of Record published online 13 July 2018.The editorial office of the journal inadvertently proce…
Characterising Citizenship
Citizenship in the UK has in recent times been explicitly framed as a privilege not a right, granted selectively and withdrawn from some. There are several criteria that assist the government in distinguishing those deserving of British citizenship from those undeserving, one of the key ones being 'character'. The 'bad character' criterion can apply for multiple reasons from inconsistencies in immigration paperwork to direct or indirect political…
Unmaking citizens
With the intensifying securitization of Western borders in the global War on Terror citizenship rights are increasingly fragile. Measures introduced by the British government to deal with the terrorist threat at home include citizenship deprivation, temporary exclusion orders as well as passport removals. Whilst citizenship deprivation has provoked critique for its potential violations of international human rights conventions on statelessness, c…
Racism and the right
Challenging sections of the liberal mainstream who, horrified and disillusioned with the current levels of prominence and power of the far right, periodically express nostalgia for and a desire to return to the seemingly more tolerant era of centre-establishment politics, Reactionary Democracy by Aurelien Mondon and Aaron Winter effectively lays out the continuities and interdependencies between the liberal/conservative mainstream and the far rig…
Sociology after the postcolonial
Julian Go's ‘Thinking Against Empire’ identifies the corpus of ‘anticolonial thought’ as being instructive for a wider rethinking of how sociology might rally its key conceptualisations of social relations. He insightfully identifies the marginalisation of such thinking from Sociology as an institutionalised discipline. In our response we take up some of the warnings Go provides in the closing sections of his essay—which concern the expanse of in…
Sociology (15 works) · Political science (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Criminology (6 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (6 works) · Racism (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works)