Nazia Hussein
Biographic Data
| ID | 290222 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nazia Hussein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nazia |
| FAMILY NAME | Hussein |
| SIGNATURE | HUSSEIN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0648-0837 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The brown/desi girl scape: Diasporic young Bangladeshi women on social media
Despite their ubiquity and integration into everyday life, social media platforms remain under-theorized as central spaces for the curation and negotiation of diasporic identity. Contributing to the knowledge in diaspora studies, using digital ethnography and case studies from two Bangladeshi American influencers’ Instagram accounts, this paper shows that from within the postfeminist neoliberal space of social media these women curate a transnati…
Minoritised migrant women in academia as translocational outsiders within: An analysis of four structures of exhaustion
Amidst performative equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) policies, research on minoritised women academics’ experiences of higher education (HE) has revealed their “outsider within” status as conceptualised by Patricia Hill Collins. In parallel, new critical research on academic mobility also reveals the unique pressures faced by minoretised migrant women academics. This paper brings together diverse elements of minoretised migrant experience …
Asian Muslim women's struggle to gain value: The labour behind performative visibility as everyday politics in Britain
Historical and contemporary discourses around Muslim women represent them through gendered cultural tropes of victims of their own patriarchal community, racial tropes of victims of islamophobia, the sexualised and fetishized ‘other’ or complicit in ‘terrorist’ activity. However, Muslim women's investment in race relations is evident in their performative visibility in everyday spaces (e.g., work, education, shops, streets etc.), where they know …
Decolonising Gender in South Asia
Decolonising gender in South Asia: A Border Thinking Perspective
The current collection elaborates on various ways of thinking about gender outside the epistemic frame of coloniality/modernity that is bound to the European colonial project. Following Walter Mignolo, we call for epistemic disobedience using border thinking as the necessary condition for thinking decolonially. Borders in this case are conceptualised not just as geographical borders of nation states, they also signify the borders of modern/coloni…
The (im)possibility of decolonising gender in South Asia: A reading of Bollywood's 'new women
This paper highlights tensions in the continuity of coloniality and the decoloniality of gender as represented within portrayals of new women in Bollywood, through an analysis of the heroines’ dance, sexuality, anger and consumption. This reading of Bollywood’s new women alludes to the (im)possibility of decolonising gender in South Asia, arguing that the emergent female subjects of these movies find themselves in cross-pulls between the need for…
Bangladeshi New Women’s ‘Smart’ Dressing: Negotiating Class, Culture, and Religion
Rethinking New Womanhood
Negotiating Middle-class Respectable Femininity: Bangladeshi Women and their Families
Using qualitative data, this article explains how affluent urban and new middle-class women in Bangladesh reconstruct the notion of respectable femininity within the family. The normative conception of middle-class women’s respectability is measured against women prioritizing family above work by performing their domestic, care, and socializing roles and by maintaining moral propriety. Using Bourdieu’s theory of capitals and Lamont’s formulation …
Colour of Life Achievements: Historical and Media Influence of Identity Formation Based on Skin Colour in South Asia
In this paper I examine South Asian fascination with skin lightening as a result of historical, cultural and media portrayals of lightness as a beauty ideal and prerequisite for life achievements in the region. To investigate the practice I start with a Foucaldian genealogy of the practice in the region. I start by studying the association of light skin with beauty and progress. Through establishments of scientific racism and imperial emphasis on…
Negotiating Middle-class Respectable Femininity: Bangladeshi Women and their Families
Using qualitative data, this article explains how affluent urban and new middle-class women in Bangladesh reconstruct the notion of respectable femininity within the family. The normative conception of middle-class women’s respectability is measured against women prioritizing family above work by performing their domestic, care, and socializing roles and by maintaining moral propriety. Using Bourdieu’s theory of capitals and Lamont’s formulation …
Colour of Life Achievements: Historical and Media Influence of Identity Formation Based on Skin Colour in South Asia
In this paper I examine South Asian fascination with skin lightening as a result of historical, cultural and media portrayals of lightness as a beauty ideal and prerequisite for life achievements in the region. To investigate the practice I start with a Foucaldian genealogy of the practice in the region. I start by studying the association of light skin with beauty and progress. Through establishments of scientific racism and imperial emphasis on…
Asian Muslim women's struggle to gain value: The labour behind performative visibility as everyday politics in Britain
Historical and contemporary discourses around Muslim women represent them through gendered cultural tropes of victims of their own patriarchal community, racial tropes of victims of islamophobia, the sexualised and fetishized ‘other’ or complicit in ‘terrorist’ activity. However, Muslim women's investment in race relations is evident in their performative visibility in everyday spaces (e.g., work, education, shops, streets etc.), where they know …
The (im)possibility of decolonising gender in South Asia: A reading of Bollywood's 'new women
This paper highlights tensions in the continuity of coloniality and the decoloniality of gender as represented within portrayals of new women in Bollywood, through an analysis of the heroines’ dance, sexuality, anger and consumption. This reading of Bollywood’s new women alludes to the (im)possibility of decolonising gender in South Asia, arguing that the emergent female subjects of these movies find themselves in cross-pulls between the need for…
Colour of Life Achievements: Historical and Media Influence of Identity Formation Based on Skin Colour in South Asia
In this paper I examine South Asian fascination with skin lightening as a result of historical, cultural and media portrayals of lightness as a beauty ideal and prerequisite for life achievements in the region. To investigate the practice I start with a Foucaldian genealogy of the practice in the region. I start by studying the association of light skin with beauty and progress. Through establishments of scientific racism and imperial emphasis on…
Negotiating Middle-class Respectable Femininity: Bangladeshi Women and their Families
Using qualitative data, this article explains how affluent urban and new middle-class women in Bangladesh reconstruct the notion of respectable femininity within the family. The normative conception of middle-class women’s respectability is measured against women prioritizing family above work by performing their domestic, care, and socializing roles and by maintaining moral propriety. Using Bourdieu’s theory of capitals and Lamont’s formulation …
Bangladeshi New Women’s ‘Smart’ Dressing: Negotiating Class, Culture, and Religion
Rethinking New Womanhood
Decolonising gender in South Asia: A Border Thinking Perspective
The current collection elaborates on various ways of thinking about gender outside the epistemic frame of coloniality/modernity that is bound to the European colonial project. Following Walter Mignolo, we call for epistemic disobedience using border thinking as the necessary condition for thinking decolonially. Borders in this case are conceptualised not just as geographical borders of nation states, they also signify the borders of modern/coloni…
The (im)possibility of decolonising gender in South Asia: A reading of Bollywood's 'new women
This paper highlights tensions in the continuity of coloniality and the decoloniality of gender as represented within portrayals of new women in Bollywood, through an analysis of the heroines’ dance, sexuality, anger and consumption. This reading of Bollywood’s new women alludes to the (im)possibility of decolonising gender in South Asia, arguing that the emergent female subjects of these movies find themselves in cross-pulls between the need for…
Decolonising Gender in South Asia
Asian Muslim women's struggle to gain value: The labour behind performative visibility as everyday politics in Britain
Historical and contemporary discourses around Muslim women represent them through gendered cultural tropes of victims of their own patriarchal community, racial tropes of victims of islamophobia, the sexualised and fetishized ‘other’ or complicit in ‘terrorist’ activity. However, Muslim women's investment in race relations is evident in their performative visibility in everyday spaces (e.g., work, education, shops, streets etc.), where they know …
Minoritised migrant women in academia as translocational outsiders within: An analysis of four structures of exhaustion
Amidst performative equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) policies, research on minoritised women academics’ experiences of higher education (HE) has revealed their “outsider within” status as conceptualised by Patricia Hill Collins. In parallel, new critical research on academic mobility also reveals the unique pressures faced by minoretised migrant women academics. This paper brings together diverse elements of minoretised migrant experience …
The brown/desi girl scape: Diasporic young Bangladeshi women on social media
Despite their ubiquity and integration into everyday life, social media platforms remain under-theorized as central spaces for the curation and negotiation of diasporic identity. Contributing to the knowledge in diaspora studies, using digital ethnography and case studies from two Bangladeshi American influencers’ Instagram accounts, this paper shows that from within the postfeminist neoliberal space of social media these women curate a transnati…
Gender Studies (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · South asia (3 works) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (3 works)