Avtar Brah
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 139918 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Avtar Brah |
| NOMBRES | Avtar |
| APELLIDO | Brah |
| FIRMA | BRAH A |
| AFILIACIONES | Birkbeck, University of London |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 426 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1978 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Difference, Diversity, Differentiation
This chapter suggests that black and white feminism should not be seen as essentially fixed oppositional categories but rather as historically contingent fields of contestation within discursive and material practices in a post-colonial society. It argues that analysis of the interconnections between racism, class, gender and sexuality must take account of the positionality of different racisms with respect to one another. The chapter underlines …
Race otherwise
This article responds to:Racialisation and the afterlife of colonial divide and rule: a response to Avtar Brah
Combahee River Collective Statement
Leslie Bow, Avtar Brah, Mishuana Goeman, Diane Harriford, Analouise Keating, Yi-Chun Tricia Lin, Laura Pérez, Becky Thompson, Zenaida Peterson, Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, Kristen A. Kolenz, Krista L. Benson, Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Shari M. Huhndorf, Combahee River Collective Statement: A Fortieth Anniversary Retrospective, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 38, No. 3 (2017), pp. 164-189
Open Sapce
This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Feminist Review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version BRAH, A. and CLINI, C., 2018. Contemporary feminist discourses and practices within and across boundaries: an interview with Avtar Brah. Feminist Review, 117 (1), pp.163–170 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41305-017-0079-2
Introduction
Interrogating cultural narratives about ‘honour’- based violence
On 3 August 2012, Shafilea Ahmed’s parents were convicted of her murder, nine years after the brutal ‘honour’ killing. The case offers important insights into how ‘honour’-based violence might be tackled without constructing non-Western cultures as inherently uncivilised. Critiquing the framing devices that structure British debates about ‘honour’-based violence demonstrates the prevalence of Orientalist tropes, revealing the need for new ways of…
Some Fragments by Way of an Afterword
Activism, Imagination and Writing
Avtar Brah (AB) was interviewed by Les Back (LB) on 3 July 2009 at a colloquium held to mark her retirement where, inter alia, her work was discussed. The interview is a reflection on her politics, activism and scholarship. It touches on some key moments of her life
The Scent of Memory
Using, as a point of departure, Tim Lott's recent autobiography where he attempts to make sense of his mother's suicide of 1988 through a reconstruction of his family genealogy, this article tries to map the production of gendered, classed, and racialized subjects and subjectivity in west London. It addresses the tension between Lott's discourse of his own white working-class boyhood during the 1970s where questions of 'race' are all but absent, …
Religion and Spirituality
Dissolving Diasporic Identities
Non-Binarized Identities of Similarity and Difference
Diferença, diversidade, diferenciação
A primeira parte do texto trata das várias noções de "diferença" que surgiram na recente controvérsia sobre a categoria "negro" (black) como sinal comum para a experiência de grupos africanos-caribenhos e do sul da Ásia na Grã-Bretanha do pós-guerra. O objetivo é assinalar como "negro" operou como sinal contingente em diferentes circunstâncias políticas. A segunda seção considera as maneiras como questões de "diferença" foram enquadradas na teori…
Hybridity and Its Discontents
Cartographies of Diaspora
This book explores the complex and contested meanings of diaspora. Avtar Brah argues that diaspora space is not simply a site of displacement and dispersal, but also of negotiation, contestation, and the production of new cultural forms. She examines how diasporic subjects negotiate their identities in relation to their homelands and host societies, and how they create new forms of belonging and community. The book draws on a range of theoretical…
Otras inapropiables
Inapropiadas/inapropiables, desubicadas en los mapas disponbles de la identidad y la política, sin poder adoptar ni la máscara del "yo" ni la del "otro" de las narrativas occidentales modernas. Fronterizas, intrusas, extranjeras, de conciencia antagonista y diferencial reclaman el privilegio sin garantías de partir de posiciones sociales múltiples y contradictorias en cuya tensión y conflicto se producen unos conocimientos y prácticas políticas r…
Empirical Interrogations
Identities
From quite different vantage points this issue addresses complex understandings of gender identities.Here identities are understood as formed through processes that are provisional, contingent and through which the marks of desire are registered as pleasure, fear and anxiety.As such, the articles point to the importance of the analytical distinction between avowed political (and other) identities, and processes of subjectivity.Myra Hird looks at …
Global Mobilities, Local Predicaments
Analysing some of the key discourses of 'globalization' and their relationship to global/local processes of gender, the article makes a distinction between the 'global' and 'globalization', such that the latter is seen as only one dimension of the 'global'. Globalization is understood as comprising complex and contradictory phenomena with diverse and differential impact across distinct categories of people, localities, regions and hemispheres. He…
Globalization
Thinking Identities
Global futures
IMAGINING THE GLOBAL Whither 'The Global'? A.Brah, M.Hickman & M.Ghail Imagining Globalisation: Power-Geometries of Time-Space D.Massey RISK SOCIETY AND GOVERNANCE Risk, 'Race' and Global Environmental Regulation I.Welsh Global Environmental Change Discourse the Southern Critique M.Mater Governance and the Postnational Policy Process R.Sibeon SYNERGETIC/DISCREPANT DIFFERENCES New Orientalisms, Global Capitalism N.Sum Reviewing the Western Spectac…
The Scent of Memory
Using, as a point of departure, Tim Lott's recent autobiography where he attempts to make sense of his mother's suicide of 1988 through a reconstruction of his family genealogy, this article tries to map the production of gendered, classed, and racialized subjects and subjectivity in west London. It addresses the tension between Lott's discourse of his own white working-class boyhood during the 1970s where questions of 'race' are all but absent, …
Consuming Cultures
Time, Place, and Others
Diferença, diversidade, diferenciação
A primeira parte do texto trata das várias noções de "diferença" que surgiram na recente controvérsia sobre a categoria "negro" (black) como sinal comum para a experiência de grupos africanos-caribenhos e do sul da Ásia na Grã-Bretanha do pós-guerra. O objetivo é assinalar como "negro" operou como sinal contingente em diferentes circunstâncias políticas. A segunda seção considera as maneiras como questões de "diferença" foram enquadradas na teori…
The Scent of Memory
Using, as a point of departure, Tim Lott's recent autobiography where he attempts to make sense of his mother's suicide of 1988 through a reconstruction of his family genealogy, this article tries to map the production of gendered, classed, and racialized subjects and subjectivity in west London. It addresses the tension between Lott's discourse of his own white working-class boyhood during the 1970s where questions of 'race' are all but absent, …
Cartographies of Diaspora
This book explores the complex and contested meanings of diaspora. Avtar Brah argues that diaspora space is not simply a site of displacement and dispersal, but also of negotiation, contestation, and the production of new cultural forms. She examines how diasporic subjects negotiate their identities in relation to their homelands and host societies, and how they create new forms of belonging and community. The book draws on a range of theoretical…
Race’ and ‘culture’ in the gendering of labour markets
This article attempts to develop an analytical framework for understanding the racialised gendering of labour markets. It is offered as part of an effort to theorise more adequately the place of paid work in the lives of Asian young Muslim women in Britain. Based upon in‐depth interviews with individual young Muslim women of Pakistani origin as well as group interviews it addresses their narratives as social biographies embedded within changing e…
Interrogating cultural narratives about ‘honour’- based violence
On 3 August 2012, Shafilea Ahmed’s parents were convicted of her murder, nine years after the brutal ‘honour’ killing. The case offers important insights into how ‘honour’-based violence might be tackled without constructing non-Western cultures as inherently uncivilised. Critiquing the framing devices that structure British debates about ‘honour’-based violence demonstrates the prevalence of Orientalist tropes, revealing the need for new ways of…
Hybridity and Its Discontents
Re-Framing Europe
We are living in a period marked by profound changes. The political upheavals of recent times in Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, South Africa, Central and South America to note a few examples and the aftermath of the Gulf War, signal major realignments in the structuring of the world political order. There has been a fundamental transformation in the political economy of late twentieth-century capitalism with a growing dominance of multinationa…
Introduction
Combahee River Collective Statement
Leslie Bow, Avtar Brah, Mishuana Goeman, Diane Harriford, Analouise Keating, Yi-Chun Tricia Lin, Laura Pérez, Becky Thompson, Zenaida Peterson, Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, Kristen A. Kolenz, Krista L. Benson, Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Shari M. Huhndorf, Combahee River Collective Statement: A Fortieth Anniversary Retrospective, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 38, No. 3 (2017), pp. 164-189
Time, Place, and Others
The Scent of Memory
Using, as a point of departure, Tim Lott's recent autobiography where he attempts to make sense of his mother's suicide of 1988 through a reconstruction of his family genealogy, this article tries to map the production of gendered, classed, and racialized subjects and subjectivity in west London. It addresses the tension between Lott's discourse of his own white working-class boyhood during the 1970s where questions of 'race' are all but absent, …
Global Mobilities, Local Predicaments
Analysing some of the key discourses of 'globalization' and their relationship to global/local processes of gender, the article makes a distinction between the 'global' and 'globalization', such that the latter is seen as only one dimension of the 'global'. Globalization is understood as comprising complex and contradictory phenomena with diverse and differential impact across distinct categories of people, localities, regions and hemispheres. He…
Towards anti-sexist and anti-racist schooling
Open Sapce
This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Feminist Review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version BRAH, A. and CLINI, C., 2018. Contemporary feminist discourses and practices within and across boundaries: an interview with Avtar Brah. Feminist Review, 117 (1), pp.163–170 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41305-017-0079-2
Activism, Imagination and Writing
Avtar Brah (AB) was interviewed by Les Back (LB) on 3 July 2009 at a colloquium held to mark her retirement where, inter alia, her work was discussed. The interview is a reflection on her politics, activism and scholarship. It touches on some key moments of her life
Religion and Spirituality
South Asian teenagers in Southall
(1978). South Asian teenagers in Southall: Their perceptions of marriage, family and ethnic identity. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies: Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 197-206
Black struggles, equality and education
South Asian teenagers in Southall
(1978). South Asian teenagers in Southall: Their perceptions of marriage, family and ethnic identity. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies: Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 197-206
Books
The realities of unemployment David J. Smith, Unemployment and Racial Minorities, Policy Studies Institute, February 1981, £5.00, 189 pp. Profile of Handsworth P. Ratcliffe, Racism and Reaction, Routledge & Kegan Paul 1981, £12.50. Jat Sikh migrants in England A. W. Helweg, Sikhs in England: The Development of a Migrant Community, Oxford University Press, India, 1979 ;OUP, Oxford, 1980. £5.75. Differing approaches to extremism N. Fielding, The Na…
Shorter Reviews
Towards anti-sexist and anti-racist schooling
Extended Review
Black struggles, equality and education
Race’ and ‘culture’ in the gendering of labour markets
This article attempts to develop an analytical framework for understanding the racialised gendering of labour markets. It is offered as part of an effort to theorise more adequately the place of paid work in the lives of Asian young Muslim women in Britain. Based upon in‐depth interviews with individual young Muslim women of Pakistani origin as well as group interviews it addresses their narratives as social biographies embedded within changing e…
Re-Framing Europe
We are living in a period marked by profound changes. The political upheavals of recent times in Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, South Africa, Central and South America to note a few examples and the aftermath of the Gulf War, signal major realignments in the structuring of the world political order. There has been a fundamental transformation in the political economy of late twentieth-century capitalism with a growing dominance of multinationa…
Time, Place, and Others
Consuming Cultures
Global futures
IMAGINING THE GLOBAL Whither 'The Global'? A.Brah, M.Hickman & M.Ghail Imagining Globalisation: Power-Geometries of Time-Space D.Massey RISK SOCIETY AND GOVERNANCE Risk, 'Race' and Global Environmental Regulation I.Welsh Global Environmental Change Discourse the Southern Critique M.Mater Governance and the Postnational Policy Process R.Sibeon SYNERGETIC/DISCREPANT DIFFERENCES New Orientalisms, Global Capitalism N.Sum Reviewing the Western Spectac…
The Scent of Memory
Using, as a point of departure, Tim Lott's recent autobiography where he attempts to make sense of his mother's suicide of 1988 through a reconstruction of his family genealogy, this article tries to map the production of gendered, classed, and racialized subjects and subjectivity in west London. It addresses the tension between Lott's discourse of his own white working-class boyhood during the 1970s where questions of 'race' are all but absent, …
Thinking Identities
Global Mobilities, Local Predicaments
Analysing some of the key discourses of 'globalization' and their relationship to global/local processes of gender, the article makes a distinction between the 'global' and 'globalization', such that the latter is seen as only one dimension of the 'global'. Globalization is understood as comprising complex and contradictory phenomena with diverse and differential impact across distinct categories of people, localities, regions and hemispheres. He…
Globalization
Identities
From quite different vantage points this issue addresses complex understandings of gender identities.Here identities are understood as formed through processes that are provisional, contingent and through which the marks of desire are registered as pleasure, fear and anxiety.As such, the articles point to the importance of the analytical distinction between avowed political (and other) identities, and processes of subjectivity.Myra Hird looks at …
Otras inapropiables
Inapropiadas/inapropiables, desubicadas en los mapas disponbles de la identidad y la política, sin poder adoptar ni la máscara del "yo" ni la del "otro" de las narrativas occidentales modernas. Fronterizas, intrusas, extranjeras, de conciencia antagonista y diferencial reclaman el privilegio sin garantías de partir de posiciones sociales múltiples y contradictorias en cuya tensión y conflicto se producen unos conocimientos y prácticas políticas r…
Empirical Interrogations
Hybridity and Its Discontents
Cartographies of Diaspora
This book explores the complex and contested meanings of diaspora. Avtar Brah argues that diaspora space is not simply a site of displacement and dispersal, but also of negotiation, contestation, and the production of new cultural forms. She examines how diasporic subjects negotiate their identities in relation to their homelands and host societies, and how they create new forms of belonging and community. The book draws on a range of theoretical…
Diferença, diversidade, diferenciação
A primeira parte do texto trata das várias noções de "diferença" que surgiram na recente controvérsia sobre a categoria "negro" (black) como sinal comum para a experiência de grupos africanos-caribenhos e do sul da Ásia na Grã-Bretanha do pós-guerra. O objetivo é assinalar como "negro" operou como sinal contingente em diferentes circunstâncias políticas. A segunda seção considera as maneiras como questões de "diferença" foram enquadradas na teori…
Non-Binarized Identities of Similarity and Difference
Dissolving Diasporic Identities
Religion and Spirituality
Some Fragments by Way of an Afterword
Sociology (30 obras) · Gender Studies (25 obras) · Anthropology (20 obras) · Political science (18 obras) · Law (12 obras) · Cultural Studies (11 obras) · Feminism (11 obras) · Human sexuality (10 obras) · Ethnic group (9 obras) · Politics (9 obras)