Katy Sian
Biographic Data
| ID | 1124763 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katy Sian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katy |
| FAMILY NAME | Sian |
| SIGNATURE | SIAN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5607-8593 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Depoliticizing decolonization
This paper argues that since 7 October 2023, universities across the West have remained complicit in the silencing of Palestine. It argues that this silencing has functioned through three key registers: Firstly, through the censorship and suppression of pro-Palestine voices, secondly through the circulation of liberal discourse, and thirdly through the failure to address the scholasticide in Gaza. Using autobiography as a lens to examine these me…
Rethinking Knowledge Production in Sociology
This article provides a critique of Eurocentric knowledge formations that currently dominate the sociological imagination and its analyses of the ‘other’. It proposes a deep questioning of the colonial underpinnings of the discipline and argues that a series of conceptual, methodological, and institutional concerns must be addressed if we are profoundly to transform teaching and learning agendas in universities. It will argue that decolonising so…
Love Jihad", "Forced" Conversion Narratives, and Interfaith Marriage in the Sikh Diaspora
This paper sets out to critically examine the "forced" conversion narrative circulating across the Sikh diaspora. The "forced" conversion narrative tells the story of Muslim men allegedly deceiving and tricking "vulnerable" Sikh females into Islam. The paper explores the parallels between the "forced" conversion narrative and the discourse on "love jihad" propagated by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), as well as drawing out its particular…
Navigating Institutional Racism in British Universities
Decolonizing the Curriculum
Born radicals? Prevent, positivism, and ‘race-thinking’
In the contemporary Western climate, counter-terrorism discourse dealing with so-called Islamic extremism appears to be obsessed with trying to understand the motives behind what prompts somebody to turn to terrorism. This paper will argue that attempts to locate extremist motives in such a way can be seen to reinforce earlier iterations of positivist criminology and race-thinking. Through a critical examination of the works of criminologist Cesa…
Surveillance, Islamophobia, and Sikh Bodies in the War on Terror
In the aftermath of 9/11, there has been a wave of intensified surveillance throughout Western democracies in the moral panic surrounding national security. This article will explore the way in which Sikh bodies have become problematized against the backdrop of harsher profiling and policing measures directed at racialized populations. Based upon empirical data, including a series of semi-structured interviews with Sikh respondents carried out in…
Being Black in a White World
Este artículo examina críticamente las experiencias de racismo de académicos que trabajan en universidades británicas. El marco conceptual en el que se apoya son la teoría crítica de la raza y el feminismo postcolonial. Estas perspectivas teóricas se entrelazan con el fin de presentar una serie de imágenes que documentan los diversos retos y barreras que se encuentran académicos británicos de color y de diversidad en la educación superior. La bas…
Racism, Governance, and Public Policy
Losing My Religion
In the wake of the war on terror the British Sikh diaspora has made a conscious effort to distinguish and set themselves apart from the Muslim community. Although historically this distinction is not novel, within the UK such an effort to illustrate this difference has been enforced to a much greater extent and has become more prominent within a context in which Sikhs have often been mistaken for being Muslim. In an attempt to distance themselves…
Spies, surveillance and stakeouts
This article will provide a critique of the PVE initiative and its implementation within the context of primary education following the events of 9/11, the 2001 riots and 7/7. Drawing upon empirical data I will argue that the monitoring of young Muslims and ‘extremism’ is problematic and reinforces the logics of Islamophobia through practices of governmentality. Moreover I will examine how whilst the monitoring of extremism is prioritized in many…
Gurdwaras, Guns and Grudges in ‘Post-Racial’ America
This paper examines the tragic Gurdwara shootings in Wisconsin in the context of ‘post-racial’ America. The argument that Western societies have seen an ‘end of racism’ is the central idea behind the post-racial America, this paper thus explores the way in which such a discourse has been mobilized in this case to silence the critique of America's embedded structural racism. Popular accounts of the shootings within the mainstream media focused exp…
Understanding Inter-Brasian Conflict
The phenomenon of Sikh and Muslim conflict has been largely analysed in anthropological and sociological works in terms of a product of angry youth or ethnic hatred or religious passions. This paper explores the main ways in which the increasing tensions between Sikhs and Muslims have been articulated in the landscape of postcolonial Britain. It investigates the most prominent explanations provided both in academic and popular literature to under…
Forced’ conversions in the British Sikh diaspora
The concern over ‘forced’ conversions believed to be initiated by ‘predatory’ Muslim males, who ‘groom’ Sikh ‘girls’ into converting to Islam against their will, continues to resurface within the British public eye. This narrative first emerged in late 1980s and early 1990s and has been reproduced to establish the threat of the Muslim ‘Other’. Such a discourse remains fixed within the Sikh social fabric as the tale continues to circulate within t…
Spies, surveillance and stakeouts
This article will provide a critique of the PVE initiative and its implementation within the context of primary education following the events of 9/11, the 2001 riots and 7/7. Drawing upon empirical data I will argue that the monitoring of young Muslims and ‘extremism’ is problematic and reinforces the logics of Islamophobia through practices of governmentality. Moreover I will examine how whilst the monitoring of extremism is prioritized in many…
Forced’ conversions in the British Sikh diaspora
The concern over ‘forced’ conversions believed to be initiated by ‘predatory’ Muslim males, who ‘groom’ Sikh ‘girls’ into converting to Islam against their will, continues to resurface within the British public eye. This narrative first emerged in late 1980s and early 1990s and has been reproduced to establish the threat of the Muslim ‘Other’. Such a discourse remains fixed within the Sikh social fabric as the tale continues to circulate within t…
Losing My Religion
In the wake of the war on terror the British Sikh diaspora has made a conscious effort to distinguish and set themselves apart from the Muslim community. Although historically this distinction is not novel, within the UK such an effort to illustrate this difference has been enforced to a much greater extent and has become more prominent within a context in which Sikhs have often been mistaken for being Muslim. In an attempt to distance themselves…
Rethinking Knowledge Production in Sociology
This article provides a critique of Eurocentric knowledge formations that currently dominate the sociological imagination and its analyses of the ‘other’. It proposes a deep questioning of the colonial underpinnings of the discipline and argues that a series of conceptual, methodological, and institutional concerns must be addressed if we are profoundly to transform teaching and learning agendas in universities. It will argue that decolonising so…
Being Black in a White World
Este artículo examina críticamente las experiencias de racismo de académicos que trabajan en universidades británicas. El marco conceptual en el que se apoya son la teoría crítica de la raza y el feminismo postcolonial. Estas perspectivas teóricas se entrelazan con el fin de presentar una serie de imágenes que documentan los diversos retos y barreras que se encuentran académicos británicos de color y de diversidad en la educación superior. La bas…
Depoliticizing decolonization
This paper argues that since 7 October 2023, universities across the West have remained complicit in the silencing of Palestine. It argues that this silencing has functioned through three key registers: Firstly, through the censorship and suppression of pro-Palestine voices, secondly through the circulation of liberal discourse, and thirdly through the failure to address the scholasticide in Gaza. Using autobiography as a lens to examine these me…
Love Jihad", "Forced" Conversion Narratives, and Interfaith Marriage in the Sikh Diaspora
This paper sets out to critically examine the "forced" conversion narrative circulating across the Sikh diaspora. The "forced" conversion narrative tells the story of Muslim men allegedly deceiving and tricking "vulnerable" Sikh females into Islam. The paper explores the parallels between the "forced" conversion narrative and the discourse on "love jihad" propagated by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), as well as drawing out its particular…
Understanding Inter-Brasian Conflict
The phenomenon of Sikh and Muslim conflict has been largely analysed in anthropological and sociological works in terms of a product of angry youth or ethnic hatred or religious passions. This paper explores the main ways in which the increasing tensions between Sikhs and Muslims have been articulated in the landscape of postcolonial Britain. It investigates the most prominent explanations provided both in academic and popular literature to under…
Understanding Inter-Brasian Conflict
The phenomenon of Sikh and Muslim conflict has been largely analysed in anthropological and sociological works in terms of a product of angry youth or ethnic hatred or religious passions. This paper explores the main ways in which the increasing tensions between Sikhs and Muslims have been articulated in the landscape of postcolonial Britain. It investigates the most prominent explanations provided both in academic and popular literature to under…
Forced’ conversions in the British Sikh diaspora
The concern over ‘forced’ conversions believed to be initiated by ‘predatory’ Muslim males, who ‘groom’ Sikh ‘girls’ into converting to Islam against their will, continues to resurface within the British public eye. This narrative first emerged in late 1980s and early 1990s and has been reproduced to establish the threat of the Muslim ‘Other’. Such a discourse remains fixed within the Sikh social fabric as the tale continues to circulate within t…
Gurdwaras, Guns and Grudges in ‘Post-Racial’ America
This paper examines the tragic Gurdwara shootings in Wisconsin in the context of ‘post-racial’ America. The argument that Western societies have seen an ‘end of racism’ is the central idea behind the post-racial America, this paper thus explores the way in which such a discourse has been mobilized in this case to silence the critique of America's embedded structural racism. Popular accounts of the shootings within the mainstream media focused exp…
Racism, Governance, and Public Policy
Losing My Religion
In the wake of the war on terror the British Sikh diaspora has made a conscious effort to distinguish and set themselves apart from the Muslim community. Although historically this distinction is not novel, within the UK such an effort to illustrate this difference has been enforced to a much greater extent and has become more prominent within a context in which Sikhs have often been mistaken for being Muslim. In an attempt to distance themselves…
Spies, surveillance and stakeouts
This article will provide a critique of the PVE initiative and its implementation within the context of primary education following the events of 9/11, the 2001 riots and 7/7. Drawing upon empirical data I will argue that the monitoring of young Muslims and ‘extremism’ is problematic and reinforces the logics of Islamophobia through practices of governmentality. Moreover I will examine how whilst the monitoring of extremism is prioritized in many…
Born radicals? Prevent, positivism, and ‘race-thinking’
In the contemporary Western climate, counter-terrorism discourse dealing with so-called Islamic extremism appears to be obsessed with trying to understand the motives behind what prompts somebody to turn to terrorism. This paper will argue that attempts to locate extremist motives in such a way can be seen to reinforce earlier iterations of positivist criminology and race-thinking. Through a critical examination of the works of criminologist Cesa…
Surveillance, Islamophobia, and Sikh Bodies in the War on Terror
In the aftermath of 9/11, there has been a wave of intensified surveillance throughout Western democracies in the moral panic surrounding national security. This article will explore the way in which Sikh bodies have become problematized against the backdrop of harsher profiling and policing measures directed at racialized populations. Based upon empirical data, including a series of semi-structured interviews with Sikh respondents carried out in…
Being Black in a White World
Este artículo examina críticamente las experiencias de racismo de académicos que trabajan en universidades británicas. El marco conceptual en el que se apoya son la teoría crítica de la raza y el feminismo postcolonial. Estas perspectivas teóricas se entrelazan con el fin de presentar una serie de imágenes que documentan los diversos retos y barreras que se encuentran académicos británicos de color y de diversidad en la educación superior. La bas…
Navigating Institutional Racism in British Universities
Decolonizing the Curriculum
Rethinking Knowledge Production in Sociology
This article provides a critique of Eurocentric knowledge formations that currently dominate the sociological imagination and its analyses of the ‘other’. It proposes a deep questioning of the colonial underpinnings of the discipline and argues that a series of conceptual, methodological, and institutional concerns must be addressed if we are profoundly to transform teaching and learning agendas in universities. It will argue that decolonising so…
Love Jihad", "Forced" Conversion Narratives, and Interfaith Marriage in the Sikh Diaspora
This paper sets out to critically examine the "forced" conversion narrative circulating across the Sikh diaspora. The "forced" conversion narrative tells the story of Muslim men allegedly deceiving and tricking "vulnerable" Sikh females into Islam. The paper explores the parallels between the "forced" conversion narrative and the discourse on "love jihad" propagated by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), as well as drawing out its particular…
Depoliticizing decolonization
This paper argues that since 7 October 2023, universities across the West have remained complicit in the silencing of Palestine. It argues that this silencing has functioned through three key registers: Firstly, through the censorship and suppression of pro-Palestine voices, secondly through the circulation of liberal discourse, and thirdly through the failure to address the scholasticide in Gaza. Using autobiography as a lens to examine these me…
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