Nisha Nath
Biographic Data
| ID | 327752 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nisha Nath |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nisha |
| FAMILY NAME | Nath |
| SIGNATURE | NATH N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Athabasca University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3227-6998 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Taking Up the Work
In this article, we bring together findings from our qualitative study of provincial public sector workers ( n = 32) on Treaty 6, 7, and 8 (Alberta) and unceded Coast Salish territories (British Columbia) in which we consider how these workers are socialized to reproduce settler colonial structures and resist them. Provincial public sector workers (PPSWs) do not simply represent the white settler colonial state but functionally are the system as …
Poetic Fabulations
This collective work (four authors) demonstrates how persistent structures in higher education are mobilized in the signing of the Scarborough Charter on Anti-Black Racism and Black Inclusion in Canadian Higher Education: Principles, Actions, and Accountabilities. We read this event against the grain, as an act requiring relation-building and accountability. Recognizing the promises and risks of this work, and inspired by Black Feminist/coalition…
Wisdom Seeking Together”
Before Indigenous scholars engage in decolonial research with human participants, Canadian universities must grant them ethics approval. Grounded by the experiences of the nehiyaw researcher and the Chair of the research ethics board who reviewed the research, we explore the experience of REB review with research exploring self-determination and sovereignty with nehiyaw iskwewak (Cree females) as Knowledge Holders. In accordance with iyiniwak (In…
Antiracist Interventive Interviewing
What does it mean to intervene in antiracist interviews with public sector workers? What do interventions look like in research seeking to name complicity in settler colonial violence and imagine otherwise relationships between non-Indigenous and Indigenous people? How might we methodologically define interventions and their pedagogical purpose(s)? In this paper, we share our experience of adopting a dual-pedagogical antiracist interventive resea…
Settler Colonial Socialization in Public Sector Work
In this piece, we ask, what are the risks of a pedagogy and politics that begins and ends with privilege? What does it mean to declare privilege when embedded in institutions of the settler colonial state? These questions are raised through an ongoing project where we interview provincial public sector workers on Treaty 6, 7 and 8 (Alberta, Canada) and Coast Salish Territories (British Columbia, Canada) about their implications in settler colonia…
Curated hostilities and the story of Abdoul Abdi
This paper offers the framework of relational securitization to understand the publicly documented story of Abdoul Abdi, a former child refugee from Somalia who spent the majority of his life in government care, and, at the age of 24, faced deportation because the state failed to secure his citizenship. Drawing from a reading of the Federal Court of Canada’s 2018 ruling in Abdoulkader Abdi v The Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparednes…
Poetics of Care
Feminist Studies 46, no. 3. © 2020 by Feminist Studies, Inc. 717 Anita Girvan, Baljit Pardesi, Davina Bhandar, and Nisha Nath Poetics of Care: Remedies for Racial Capitalism Gone Viral Crisis as Structure, Not Event On March 11, 2020, WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus “[rang] the alarm bell loud and clear.” In declaring COVID-19 a pandemic, he iterated that this was “not just a public health crisis,” but a crisis “that will touch e…
The Future of Canadian Political Science
In light of theCanadian Journal of Political Science(CJPS) self-reflexive “50thAnniversary” issue on the state of Canadian political science (CPS), this article maps the discipline's engagement with intersectional anti-oppression scholarship. Analyzing abstracts inCJPSand theCanadian Political Science Review,we argue while these journals—and mainstream CPS more generally—tackle questions of diversity, there remains a gap between conversations rec…
Defining Narratives of Identity in Canadian Political Science
This article maps how Canadian political science has considered and shaped the logic of “identity” across the institutional, societal and governance dimensions of this disciplinary subfield. Focusing on the ubiquitous analytic absence of “race” in the mainstream literature, this article argues that mainstream Canadian political science reproduces a logic that limits the conversation to particular dimensions of ‘identity’ (‘identity’ as a basis of…
Hope and Despair
Reviewed by: Hope and Despair: My Struggle to Free My Husband, Maher Arar Nisha Nath Monia Mazigh. Hope and Despair: My Struggle to Free My Husband, Maher Arar. Translated by Patricia Claxton and Fred A. Reed. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2008. 272 pp. Foreward. Epilogue. $34.99 hc. Most Canadians will recognize the picture of Maher Arar on the cover of Hope and Despair: My Struggle to Free my Husband, Maher Arar. On September 26, 2002, Arar …
From Deportation to Apology
In 2002, Maher Arar, a dual Canadian and Syrian citizen, was detained and accused by American authorities of being a member of al Qa'ida. He was deported to Jordan and, ultimately, Syria, where he was imprisoned and subjected to torture for one year. In 2007, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper issued an apology and 10.5 million dollars (Canadian) in compensation. Drawing on contemporary theoretical accounts of multiculturalism, security, and …
Defining Narratives of Identity in Canadian Political Science
This article maps how Canadian political science has considered and shaped the logic of “identity” across the institutional, societal and governance dimensions of this disciplinary subfield. Focusing on the ubiquitous analytic absence of “race” in the mainstream literature, this article argues that mainstream Canadian political science reproduces a logic that limits the conversation to particular dimensions of ‘identity’ (‘identity’ as a basis of…
The Future of Canadian Political Science
In light of theCanadian Journal of Political Science(CJPS) self-reflexive “50thAnniversary” issue on the state of Canadian political science (CPS), this article maps the discipline's engagement with intersectional anti-oppression scholarship. Analyzing abstracts inCJPSand theCanadian Political Science Review,we argue while these journals—and mainstream CPS more generally—tackle questions of diversity, there remains a gap between conversations rec…
From Deportation to Apology
In 2002, Maher Arar, a dual Canadian and Syrian citizen, was detained and accused by American authorities of being a member of al Qa'ida. He was deported to Jordan and, ultimately, Syria, where he was imprisoned and subjected to torture for one year. In 2007, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper issued an apology and 10.5 million dollars (Canadian) in compensation. Drawing on contemporary theoretical accounts of multiculturalism, security, and …
Wisdom Seeking Together”
Before Indigenous scholars engage in decolonial research with human participants, Canadian universities must grant them ethics approval. Grounded by the experiences of the nehiyaw researcher and the Chair of the research ethics board who reviewed the research, we explore the experience of REB review with research exploring self-determination and sovereignty with nehiyaw iskwewak (Cree females) as Knowledge Holders. In accordance with iyiniwak (In…
Settler Colonial Socialization in Public Sector Work
In this piece, we ask, what are the risks of a pedagogy and politics that begins and ends with privilege? What does it mean to declare privilege when embedded in institutions of the settler colonial state? These questions are raised through an ongoing project where we interview provincial public sector workers on Treaty 6, 7 and 8 (Alberta, Canada) and Coast Salish Territories (British Columbia, Canada) about their implications in settler colonia…
Curated hostilities and the story of Abdoul Abdi
This paper offers the framework of relational securitization to understand the publicly documented story of Abdoul Abdi, a former child refugee from Somalia who spent the majority of his life in government care, and, at the age of 24, faced deportation because the state failed to secure his citizenship. Drawing from a reading of the Federal Court of Canada’s 2018 ruling in Abdoulkader Abdi v The Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparednes…
Poetics of Care
Feminist Studies 46, no. 3. © 2020 by Feminist Studies, Inc. 717 Anita Girvan, Baljit Pardesi, Davina Bhandar, and Nisha Nath Poetics of Care: Remedies for Racial Capitalism Gone Viral Crisis as Structure, Not Event On March 11, 2020, WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus “[rang] the alarm bell loud and clear.” In declaring COVID-19 a pandemic, he iterated that this was “not just a public health crisis,” but a crisis “that will touch e…
Hope and Despair
Reviewed by: Hope and Despair: My Struggle to Free My Husband, Maher Arar Nisha Nath Monia Mazigh. Hope and Despair: My Struggle to Free My Husband, Maher Arar. Translated by Patricia Claxton and Fred A. Reed. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2008. 272 pp. Foreward. Epilogue. $34.99 hc. Most Canadians will recognize the picture of Maher Arar on the cover of Hope and Despair: My Struggle to Free my Husband, Maher Arar. On September 26, 2002, Arar …
From Deportation to Apology
In 2002, Maher Arar, a dual Canadian and Syrian citizen, was detained and accused by American authorities of being a member of al Qa'ida. He was deported to Jordan and, ultimately, Syria, where he was imprisoned and subjected to torture for one year. In 2007, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper issued an apology and 10.5 million dollars (Canadian) in compensation. Drawing on contemporary theoretical accounts of multiculturalism, security, and …
Defining Narratives of Identity in Canadian Political Science
This article maps how Canadian political science has considered and shaped the logic of “identity” across the institutional, societal and governance dimensions of this disciplinary subfield. Focusing on the ubiquitous analytic absence of “race” in the mainstream literature, this article argues that mainstream Canadian political science reproduces a logic that limits the conversation to particular dimensions of ‘identity’ (‘identity’ as a basis of…
The Future of Canadian Political Science
In light of theCanadian Journal of Political Science(CJPS) self-reflexive “50thAnniversary” issue on the state of Canadian political science (CPS), this article maps the discipline's engagement with intersectional anti-oppression scholarship. Analyzing abstracts inCJPSand theCanadian Political Science Review,we argue while these journals—and mainstream CPS more generally—tackle questions of diversity, there remains a gap between conversations rec…
Poetics of Care
Feminist Studies 46, no. 3. © 2020 by Feminist Studies, Inc. 717 Anita Girvan, Baljit Pardesi, Davina Bhandar, and Nisha Nath Poetics of Care: Remedies for Racial Capitalism Gone Viral Crisis as Structure, Not Event On March 11, 2020, WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus “[rang] the alarm bell loud and clear.” In declaring COVID-19 a pandemic, he iterated that this was “not just a public health crisis,” but a crisis “that will touch e…
Curated hostilities and the story of Abdoul Abdi
This paper offers the framework of relational securitization to understand the publicly documented story of Abdoul Abdi, a former child refugee from Somalia who spent the majority of his life in government care, and, at the age of 24, faced deportation because the state failed to secure his citizenship. Drawing from a reading of the Federal Court of Canada’s 2018 ruling in Abdoulkader Abdi v The Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparednes…
Settler Colonial Socialization in Public Sector Work
In this piece, we ask, what are the risks of a pedagogy and politics that begins and ends with privilege? What does it mean to declare privilege when embedded in institutions of the settler colonial state? These questions are raised through an ongoing project where we interview provincial public sector workers on Treaty 6, 7 and 8 (Alberta, Canada) and Coast Salish Territories (British Columbia, Canada) about their implications in settler colonia…
Wisdom Seeking Together”
Before Indigenous scholars engage in decolonial research with human participants, Canadian universities must grant them ethics approval. Grounded by the experiences of the nehiyaw researcher and the Chair of the research ethics board who reviewed the research, we explore the experience of REB review with research exploring self-determination and sovereignty with nehiyaw iskwewak (Cree females) as Knowledge Holders. In accordance with iyiniwak (In…
Antiracist Interventive Interviewing
What does it mean to intervene in antiracist interviews with public sector workers? What do interventions look like in research seeking to name complicity in settler colonial violence and imagine otherwise relationships between non-Indigenous and Indigenous people? How might we methodologically define interventions and their pedagogical purpose(s)? In this paper, we share our experience of adopting a dual-pedagogical antiracist interventive resea…
Poetic Fabulations
This collective work (four authors) demonstrates how persistent structures in higher education are mobilized in the signing of the Scarborough Charter on Anti-Black Racism and Black Inclusion in Canadian Higher Education: Principles, Actions, and Accountabilities. We read this event against the grain, as an act requiring relation-building and accountability. Recognizing the promises and risks of this work, and inspired by Black Feminist/coalition…
Taking Up the Work
In this article, we bring together findings from our qualitative study of provincial public sector workers ( n = 32) on Treaty 6, 7, and 8 (Alberta) and unceded Coast Salish territories (British Columbia) in which we consider how these workers are socialized to reproduce settler colonial structures and resist them. Provincial public sector workers (PPSWs) do not simply represent the white settler colonial state but functionally are the system as …
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