Emily Regan Wills
Biographic Data
| ID | 147169 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emily Regan Wills |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emily Regan |
| FAMILY NAME | Wills |
| SIGNATURE | WILLS E R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ottawa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Challenges of Sustaining Solidarity
The building of solidarity is proposed across many philosophical traditions as a solution to the problem of collective action, that is, how to motivate disparate individuals to commit to a common cause or shared good, where that commitment involves some kind of personal sacrifice or cost. Solidarity itself is generally described in terms of an affective experience of being linked with or feeling connected to others which, as a result, motivates w…
The problem with the Comoros solution: Affect, citizenship, statelessness and the Kuwaiti Bidoon
The Kuwaiti bidoon are a subset of the nomadic population of Kuwait who have been made stateless, classified as illegal residents and increasingly deprived of social rights through changing classifications by the Kuwaiti government. In 2014, the Kuwaiti government attempted to obtain citizenship in the African island nation of the Comoros for the bidoon, which would have provided them with a route to legal residency. But would this have provided …
The power of sponsorship: Power and Moral Action in Private Refugee Resettlement
Concentration and consideration: Poetry at DDD14
As many readers of Mortality will be aware, the bi-annual International Context of Death, Dying and Disposal Conference (otherwise known as DDD14) was held at the University of Bath in September 20
Building new practices of solidarity: The community mobilisation in crisis project
‘What can the development and aid sectors do differently?’ Based on our experience of developing and running an innovative digital learning programme – originally intended as a distance learning programme for Syrian refugees in the Middle East, but now grown beyond that – this article seeks to address this very question. Inspired by efforts such as the #shiftthepower campaign, as well as our own experiences working with communities and civil soci…
Creating Canadians through Private Sponsorship
We investigate how refugee sponsors and sponsorship groups approach their responsibility to “create new Canadians.” We set the stage by reflecting on the history of Canada as an immigrant-receiving, multicultural country, as well as on the role of acculturation attitudes of host community members in establishing the integration environment for newcomers in general. We use findings from nearly 60 interviews with sponsors in the Ottawa area to outl…
Suburban Islam (By Justine Howe)
Reviewed by: Suburban Islam by Justine Howe Emily Regan Wills (bio) Suburban Islam Justine Howe New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. 230 Pages. In Suburban Islam, Justine Howe provides a compelling and readable ethnographic portrait of the Muhammad Webb Foundation, a Muslim community organization located in the suburbs of Chicago. The Webb Foundation is structurally distinct from many other sorts of Muslim community institutions. It is not a …
Arab New York
Arab New York draws from rich ethnographic data and presents a narrative, compelling picture of a community engaging with politics on its own terms. Written to expand the existing literature on Arab Americans to include more direct engagement with politics and discourse, Arab New York also serves as an appropriate introduction to Arab American communities, ethnic dynamics in New York City and elsewhere in urban America, and the concept of everyda…
Tareq Al-Sham (The Road to Damascus)
The West Bank Wall
This introduction to the special issue sets out to bring some clarity and organization to the diverse bodies of literature on the construction, lived experience, and consequences of the West Bank Wall. We review the literature on the Wall and identify three broad themes: the significance of the Wall in the context of political negotiations, its disruption of daily life in the West Bank, and its role as a symbol in broader debates about sovereignt…
Constructing a “Wall”: Discursive Fields, Social Movements, and the Politics of the [Wall/Barrier/Fence]
The [wall/barrier/fence] built by Israel near the Green Line has produced a new object around which political actors, especially those engaged in contentious politics around the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, can use to focus and shape their language and actions. Using the notion of discursive fields, this paper examines the use of the three terms wall, fence, and barrier among social movement actors from Israel, Palestine, and elsewhere to descri…
Humor and Identity on Twitter: Muslimcandyheartrejects as a Digital Space for Identity Construction
Through examining the hashtag #muslimcandyheartrejects, a one-time, short-term, joke hashtag used on Twitter among a group of Muslim tweeters in 2012, we argue that members of Muslim digital diaspora communities use social media to construct and reinforce a Muslim diaspora identity. The architecture of Twitter provides the structure for these engagements, while humor serves meaning-making, cohesion building, and tension-relief functions within th…
Polemics, Political Racism, and Misrecognition: Naming and Analyzing Prejudice Against Arab‐Americans
This paper explores, in particular, the theory of recognition proposed by Axel Honneth (in addition to a brief examination of Charles Taylor's work), in order to evaluate in what ways it is able to name and provide critical leverage over the experiences of Arab-Americans in contemporary social life. I argue that Honneth's three spheres of recognition, love, law, and solidarity, are insufficient for describing the major injustices against Arab-Ame…
Democratic Paradoxes: Women's Rights and Democratization in Kuwait
The 1999 decree by Kuwait's emir granting women electoral rights, and its subsequent parliamentary rejection, is more than just an instance of women's oppression in action. It also demonstrates a potential paradox between two axes of democratization: liberalization, the existence of a sphere of meaningful public contestation, and participation, that the right to participate in that sphere is extended to all. In Kuwait, 1999 represents an instance…
Violence, Non-Violence, and the Palestinian National Movement
Constructing a “Wall”: Discursive Fields, Social Movements, and the Politics of the [Wall/Barrier/Fence]
The [wall/barrier/fence] built by Israel near the Green Line has produced a new object around which political actors, especially those engaged in contentious politics around the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, can use to focus and shape their language and actions. Using the notion of discursive fields, this paper examines the use of the three terms wall, fence, and barrier among social movement actors from Israel, Palestine, and elsewhere to descri…
Creating Canadians through Private Sponsorship
We investigate how refugee sponsors and sponsorship groups approach their responsibility to “create new Canadians.” We set the stage by reflecting on the history of Canada as an immigrant-receiving, multicultural country, as well as on the role of acculturation attitudes of host community members in establishing the integration environment for newcomers in general. We use findings from nearly 60 interviews with sponsors in the Ottawa area to outl…
The West Bank Wall
This introduction to the special issue sets out to bring some clarity and organization to the diverse bodies of literature on the construction, lived experience, and consequences of the West Bank Wall. We review the literature on the Wall and identify three broad themes: the significance of the Wall in the context of political negotiations, its disruption of daily life in the West Bank, and its role as a symbol in broader debates about sovereignt…
Humor and Identity on Twitter: Muslimcandyheartrejects as a Digital Space for Identity Construction
Through examining the hashtag #muslimcandyheartrejects, a one-time, short-term, joke hashtag used on Twitter among a group of Muslim tweeters in 2012, we argue that members of Muslim digital diaspora communities use social media to construct and reinforce a Muslim diaspora identity. The architecture of Twitter provides the structure for these engagements, while humor serves meaning-making, cohesion building, and tension-relief functions within th…
Violence, Non-Violence, and the Palestinian National Movement
The power of sponsorship: Power and Moral Action in Private Refugee Resettlement
Democratic Paradoxes: Women's Rights and Democratization in Kuwait
The 1999 decree by Kuwait's emir granting women electoral rights, and its subsequent parliamentary rejection, is more than just an instance of women's oppression in action. It also demonstrates a potential paradox between two axes of democratization: liberalization, the existence of a sphere of meaningful public contestation, and participation, that the right to participate in that sphere is extended to all. In Kuwait, 1999 represents an instance…
Democratic Paradoxes: Women's Rights and Democratization in Kuwait
The 1999 decree by Kuwait's emir granting women electoral rights, and its subsequent parliamentary rejection, is more than just an instance of women's oppression in action. It also demonstrates a potential paradox between two axes of democratization: liberalization, the existence of a sphere of meaningful public contestation, and participation, that the right to participate in that sphere is extended to all. In Kuwait, 1999 represents an instance…
Violence, Non-Violence, and the Palestinian National Movement
Polemics, Political Racism, and Misrecognition: Naming and Analyzing Prejudice Against Arab‐Americans
This paper explores, in particular, the theory of recognition proposed by Axel Honneth (in addition to a brief examination of Charles Taylor's work), in order to evaluate in what ways it is able to name and provide critical leverage over the experiences of Arab-Americans in contemporary social life. I argue that Honneth's three spheres of recognition, love, law, and solidarity, are insufficient for describing the major injustices against Arab-Ame…
Tareq Al-Sham (The Road to Damascus)
The West Bank Wall
This introduction to the special issue sets out to bring some clarity and organization to the diverse bodies of literature on the construction, lived experience, and consequences of the West Bank Wall. We review the literature on the Wall and identify three broad themes: the significance of the Wall in the context of political negotiations, its disruption of daily life in the West Bank, and its role as a symbol in broader debates about sovereignt…
Constructing a “Wall”: Discursive Fields, Social Movements, and the Politics of the [Wall/Barrier/Fence]
The [wall/barrier/fence] built by Israel near the Green Line has produced a new object around which political actors, especially those engaged in contentious politics around the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, can use to focus and shape their language and actions. Using the notion of discursive fields, this paper examines the use of the three terms wall, fence, and barrier among social movement actors from Israel, Palestine, and elsewhere to descri…
Humor and Identity on Twitter: Muslimcandyheartrejects as a Digital Space for Identity Construction
Through examining the hashtag #muslimcandyheartrejects, a one-time, short-term, joke hashtag used on Twitter among a group of Muslim tweeters in 2012, we argue that members of Muslim digital diaspora communities use social media to construct and reinforce a Muslim diaspora identity. The architecture of Twitter provides the structure for these engagements, while humor serves meaning-making, cohesion building, and tension-relief functions within th…
Suburban Islam (By Justine Howe)
Reviewed by: Suburban Islam by Justine Howe Emily Regan Wills (bio) Suburban Islam Justine Howe New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. 230 Pages. In Suburban Islam, Justine Howe provides a compelling and readable ethnographic portrait of the Muhammad Webb Foundation, a Muslim community organization located in the suburbs of Chicago. The Webb Foundation is structurally distinct from many other sorts of Muslim community institutions. It is not a …
Arab New York
Arab New York draws from rich ethnographic data and presents a narrative, compelling picture of a community engaging with politics on its own terms. Written to expand the existing literature on Arab Americans to include more direct engagement with politics and discourse, Arab New York also serves as an appropriate introduction to Arab American communities, ethnic dynamics in New York City and elsewhere in urban America, and the concept of everyda…
Concentration and consideration: Poetry at DDD14
As many readers of Mortality will be aware, the bi-annual International Context of Death, Dying and Disposal Conference (otherwise known as DDD14) was held at the University of Bath in September 20
Building new practices of solidarity: The community mobilisation in crisis project
‘What can the development and aid sectors do differently?’ Based on our experience of developing and running an innovative digital learning programme – originally intended as a distance learning programme for Syrian refugees in the Middle East, but now grown beyond that – this article seeks to address this very question. Inspired by efforts such as the #shiftthepower campaign, as well as our own experiences working with communities and civil soci…
Creating Canadians through Private Sponsorship
We investigate how refugee sponsors and sponsorship groups approach their responsibility to “create new Canadians.” We set the stage by reflecting on the history of Canada as an immigrant-receiving, multicultural country, as well as on the role of acculturation attitudes of host community members in establishing the integration environment for newcomers in general. We use findings from nearly 60 interviews with sponsors in the Ottawa area to outl…
The problem with the Comoros solution: Affect, citizenship, statelessness and the Kuwaiti Bidoon
The Kuwaiti bidoon are a subset of the nomadic population of Kuwait who have been made stateless, classified as illegal residents and increasingly deprived of social rights through changing classifications by the Kuwaiti government. In 2014, the Kuwaiti government attempted to obtain citizenship in the African island nation of the Comoros for the bidoon, which would have provided them with a route to legal residency. But would this have provided …
The power of sponsorship: Power and Moral Action in Private Refugee Resettlement
The Challenges of Sustaining Solidarity
The building of solidarity is proposed across many philosophical traditions as a solution to the problem of collective action, that is, how to motivate disparate individuals to commit to a common cause or shared good, where that commitment involves some kind of personal sacrifice or cost. Solidarity itself is generally described in terms of an affective experience of being linked with or feeling connected to others which, as a result, motivates w…
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · History (4 works) · History (4 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)