Shakira Hussein
Biographic Data
| ID | 3649066 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shakira Hussein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shakira |
| FAMILY NAME | Hussein |
| SIGNATURE | HUSSEIN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5903-5847 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Toxic gastronationalism in India
Young Muslim women
This paper explores how a small group of young Australian Muslim women are engaging with the discourses of gender, religion and culture in their lives. It draws on data gathered from a study that evaluated aprogramme designed to support learning and public action for human rights. The paper highlights these young women’s experiences of the double bind of racism and patriarchy in their lives around familial/community and public ideas about what it…
Conscripts or volunteers? Young Muslims as everyday explainers
Young Muslims in the West are often at the forefront of efforts to explain, demystify and de-stigmatise Islam and Muslim identity through everyday knowledge-sharing – from formal initiatives such as Speed-Date-a-Muslim and Coffee and Islam to informal fielding of questions from classmates, colleagues and strangers. This paper draws on contact theory to investigate conditions and drivers for young Australian Muslims who seek to explain their relig…
From Victims to Suspects
We’re Not Multicultural, but
This article reconsiders the 2005 Cronulla riots after ten years. We begin by examining three examples of events misread ten years ago, to illustrate some key changes that have since shaped Australian racism. The first two, concern the rallying call to ‘Leb and wog bashing day’ at Cronulla in December 2005, and the attack there on two Bangladeshi students. These are shown to be indicative in a shift in the focus of racist Othering in Australia, f…
From Rescue Missions to Discipline
This paper maps a shift in emphasis in the representation of Muslim women in Western discourse from that of victims in need of Western rescue to that of active participants in Islamism and the ‘Islamisation’ of the West. Muslim women activists have developed an articulate response to representations that depict them as passive victims, emphasising that many women undertake their religious practices (in particular, those relating to dress) by ‘cho…
Challenging the myth of the happy celibate
Conscripts or volunteers? Young Muslims as everyday explainers
Young Muslims in the West are often at the forefront of efforts to explain, demystify and de-stigmatise Islam and Muslim identity through everyday knowledge-sharing – from formal initiatives such as Speed-Date-a-Muslim and Coffee and Islam to informal fielding of questions from classmates, colleagues and strangers. This paper draws on contact theory to investigate conditions and drivers for young Australian Muslims who seek to explain their relig…
We’re Not Multicultural, but
This article reconsiders the 2005 Cronulla riots after ten years. We begin by examining three examples of events misread ten years ago, to illustrate some key changes that have since shaped Australian racism. The first two, concern the rallying call to ‘Leb and wog bashing day’ at Cronulla in December 2005, and the attack there on two Bangladeshi students. These are shown to be indicative in a shift in the focus of racist Othering in Australia, f…
Challenging the myth of the happy celibate
From Rescue Missions to Discipline
This paper maps a shift in emphasis in the representation of Muslim women in Western discourse from that of victims in need of Western rescue to that of active participants in Islamism and the ‘Islamisation’ of the West. Muslim women activists have developed an articulate response to representations that depict them as passive victims, emphasising that many women undertake their religious practices (in particular, those relating to dress) by ‘cho…
Challenging the myth of the happy celibate
From Rescue Missions to Discipline
This paper maps a shift in emphasis in the representation of Muslim women in Western discourse from that of victims in need of Western rescue to that of active participants in Islamism and the ‘Islamisation’ of the West. Muslim women activists have developed an articulate response to representations that depict them as passive victims, emphasising that many women undertake their religious practices (in particular, those relating to dress) by ‘cho…
We’re Not Multicultural, but
This article reconsiders the 2005 Cronulla riots after ten years. We begin by examining three examples of events misread ten years ago, to illustrate some key changes that have since shaped Australian racism. The first two, concern the rallying call to ‘Leb and wog bashing day’ at Cronulla in December 2005, and the attack there on two Bangladeshi students. These are shown to be indicative in a shift in the focus of racist Othering in Australia, f…
From Victims to Suspects
Conscripts or volunteers? Young Muslims as everyday explainers
Young Muslims in the West are often at the forefront of efforts to explain, demystify and de-stigmatise Islam and Muslim identity through everyday knowledge-sharing – from formal initiatives such as Speed-Date-a-Muslim and Coffee and Islam to informal fielding of questions from classmates, colleagues and strangers. This paper draws on contact theory to investigate conditions and drivers for young Australian Muslims who seek to explain their relig…
Young Muslim women
This paper explores how a small group of young Australian Muslim women are engaging with the discourses of gender, religion and culture in their lives. It draws on data gathered from a study that evaluated aprogramme designed to support learning and public action for human rights. The paper highlights these young women’s experiences of the double bind of racism and patriarchy in their lives around familial/community and public ideas about what it…
Toxic gastronationalism in India
Sociology (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Islam (3 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Islamic Studies and History (2 works) · Multiculturalism (2 works)