Waqas Tufail
Biographic Data
| ID | 130384 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Waqas Tufail |
| GIVEN NAMES | Waqas |
| FAMILY NAME | Tufail |
| SIGNATURE | TUFAIL W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leeds Beckett University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4656-048X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Protesting Genocide on Campus
Since October 2023, universities in the Global North have become important sites in the contestation of solidarity in response to the ongoing genocidal violence in Gaza. This article examines the emergence of pro-Palestine encampments on UK university campuses, sparked by Israel’s systematic destruction of Gaza’s educational infrastructure and the killing of students, academics and staff – acts widely condemned as scholasticide. These encampments…
Criminalisation of political activism
This Intervention presents a conversation amongst a collective of scholars who are in the process of establishing a research network studying the criminalisation of dissent. The new UK Police, Crime, Sentencing, Courts Act 2022 is just one recent example of attempts by ‘liberal democratic’ states to criminalise political activism and restrict the right to protest. Similar legislative measures, repressive policing practices, and discourses delegit…
Failing victims, fuelling hate
Muslim grooming gangs' have become a defining feature of media, political and public debate around child sexual exploitation in the UK. The dominant narrative that has emerged to explain a series of horrific cases is misleading, sensationalist and has in itself promoted a number of harms. This article examines how racist framings of 'Muslim grooming gangs' exist not only in extremist, far-right fringes but in mainstream, liberal discourses too. T…
Media, Crime and Racism
Muslim and Dangerous
Race Defaced
The Riots Were Where the Police Were
This article explores the social dynamics in the city of Salford at the time of the Pendleton riot, which took place amidst the four days of national rioting that began with the killing of Mark Duggan in Tottenham by the Metropolitan Police Service. Attempting to counter what we see as a dominant narrative of the riots as 'shopping with violence', this article explores the development of the significant disorder in Salford through a triangulation…
I Refuse to Condemn
I Refuse to Condemn is a unique and outstanding edited collection that is essential reading for a diverse range of audiences, but will be of particular interest to students, scholars, practitioners
Failing victims, fuelling hate
Muslim grooming gangs' have become a defining feature of media, political and public debate around child sexual exploitation in the UK. The dominant narrative that has emerged to explain a series of horrific cases is misleading, sensationalist and has in itself promoted a number of harms. This article examines how racist framings of 'Muslim grooming gangs' exist not only in extremist, far-right fringes but in mainstream, liberal discourses too. T…
Criminalisation of political activism
This Intervention presents a conversation amongst a collective of scholars who are in the process of establishing a research network studying the criminalisation of dissent. The new UK Police, Crime, Sentencing, Courts Act 2022 is just one recent example of attempts by ‘liberal democratic’ states to criminalise political activism and restrict the right to protest. Similar legislative measures, repressive policing practices, and discourses delegit…
The Riots Were Where the Police Were
This article explores the social dynamics in the city of Salford at the time of the Pendleton riot, which took place amidst the four days of national rioting that began with the killing of Mark Duggan in Tottenham by the Metropolitan Police Service. Attempting to counter what we see as a dominant narrative of the riots as 'shopping with violence', this article explores the development of the significant disorder in Salford through a triangulation…
The Riots Were Where the Police Were
This article explores the social dynamics in the city of Salford at the time of the Pendleton riot, which took place amidst the four days of national rioting that began with the killing of Mark Duggan in Tottenham by the Metropolitan Police Service. Attempting to counter what we see as a dominant narrative of the riots as 'shopping with violence', this article explores the development of the significant disorder in Salford through a triangulation…
Race Defaced
Muslim and Dangerous
Media, Crime and Racism
Failing victims, fuelling hate
Muslim grooming gangs' have become a defining feature of media, political and public debate around child sexual exploitation in the UK. The dominant narrative that has emerged to explain a series of horrific cases is misleading, sensationalist and has in itself promoted a number of harms. This article examines how racist framings of 'Muslim grooming gangs' exist not only in extremist, far-right fringes but in mainstream, liberal discourses too. T…
Criminalisation of political activism
This Intervention presents a conversation amongst a collective of scholars who are in the process of establishing a research network studying the criminalisation of dissent. The new UK Police, Crime, Sentencing, Courts Act 2022 is just one recent example of attempts by ‘liberal democratic’ states to criminalise political activism and restrict the right to protest. Similar legislative measures, repressive policing practices, and discourses delegit…
I Refuse to Condemn
I Refuse to Condemn is a unique and outstanding edited collection that is essential reading for a diverse range of audiences, but will be of particular interest to students, scholars, practitioners
Protesting Genocide on Campus
Since October 2023, universities in the Global North have become important sites in the contestation of solidarity in response to the ongoing genocidal violence in Gaza. This article examines the emergence of pro-Palestine encampments on UK university campuses, sparked by Israel’s systematic destruction of Gaza’s educational infrastructure and the killing of students, academics and staff – acts widely condemned as scholasticide. These encampments…
Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works) · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)