Suki Ali
Biographic Data
| ID | 3660396 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Suki Ali |
| GIVEN NAMES | Suki |
| FAMILY NAME | Ali |
| SIGNATURE | ALI S |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Ethics and social research
Visual analysis
Multicultural families
In 2010, the Coalition government announced its plans for adoption reform which included ‘removing barriers’ to transracial adoption. The government has blamed social workers’ looking for ‘perfect ethnic matches’ for denying black and minority ethnic children placements with ‘loving and stable families’. The paper draws upon qualitative research with professionals and parents, which shows that the government has failed to take into account the co…
Governing multicultural populations and family life
Shortly after coming to power in Britain, the Conservative-Liberal Democratic alliance placed family life at the heart of their political agenda, and set out their plans to reform adoption. The paper draws upon debates about the reforms and considers them in articulation with concerns about health of the nation expressed in political pronouncements on 'broken Britain' and the failures of 'state multiculturalism'. The paper considers the debates a…
International Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Mixedness and Mixing
People from a ‘mixed’ or ‘inter’ racial and ethnic background, and people partnering and parenting across different racial and ethnic backgrounds, are of increasing political, public and intellectual interest internationally. Contributors to this interdisciplinary collection interrogate notions of mixedness and mixing, and challenge stereotypical assumptions. They advance debates in the field through illuminating the complexity of specific histor…
The Sense of Memory
In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in the role of collective memory in ethno-national projects. In addition, there has been an expansion of research utilising memory work and auto/biographical methods, which have been particularly effective in the writing of feminists of colour. The paper is prompted by a return to Avtar Brah's 'The Scent of Memory' that it uses as a starting point to explore the relationships between competin…
The Creolisation of London Kinship
THE CREOLISATION OF LONDON KINSHIP: MIXED AFRICAN-CARIBBEAN AND WHITE BRITISH EXTENDED FAMILIES, 1950–2003." Ethnic and Racial Studies, 34(12), pp. 2215–2216
Race, gender and educational desire
Troubling times
These are ‘troubled times’. For some, such troubles are felt immediately in and on the body, for others they are filtered through media and representations. But it is not only the ‘trouble’ itself that forms the object of analysis for Judith Butler's paper, it is also the ‘times’; and the plurality of the temporal is key. For Butler, it might be said that time itself, specifically secular time, is the trouble; but a different conception of time m…
Crossing lines
Feminism and Postcolonial
This article charts a partial and situated engagement with some of the debates about the development of feminist and postcolonial theory. It looks at the importance of maintaining an engagement with both these perspectives in contemporary struggles around knowledge/politics in the (British) academy. In addition it discusses the ways in which the conjunction of feminist with postcolonial provides impetus for new methodological agendas in future re…
Racializing research
This article engages with the issue of power relations within ethnographic research into 'race'. Taking as its starting point the importance of understanding processes of racialization, it draws upon ethnographic work with children in order to explore the role of reflexivity in managing issues of power in knowledge production. Using the concept of 'subjectivation' it argues that we cannot ever hope to escape (non)hierarchical power relations in r…
Uses of the Exotic
Changing Women, Unchanged Men? Sociological Perspectives on Gender in a Post-industrial Society
Friendship and Fandom
This paper explores the relationships between knowledge of popular culture and power negotiations among young children's friendship groups and derives from a research project on the identity formations of 'mixed race' children. The paper begins with a consideration of existing work on music, ethnicity and cultural identities and how this is implicated in formations of 'imagined communities' (Anderson, 1991, Imagined Communities , Verso). Next, I …
Feminism and Postcolonial
This article charts a partial and situated engagement with some of the debates about the development of feminist and postcolonial theory. It looks at the importance of maintaining an engagement with both these perspectives in contemporary struggles around knowledge/politics in the (British) academy. In addition it discusses the ways in which the conjunction of feminist with postcolonial provides impetus for new methodological agendas in future re…
Racializing research
This article engages with the issue of power relations within ethnographic research into 'race'. Taking as its starting point the importance of understanding processes of racialization, it draws upon ethnographic work with children in order to explore the role of reflexivity in managing issues of power in knowledge production. Using the concept of 'subjectivation' it argues that we cannot ever hope to escape (non)hierarchical power relations in r…
Multicultural families
In 2010, the Coalition government announced its plans for adoption reform which included ‘removing barriers’ to transracial adoption. The government has blamed social workers’ looking for ‘perfect ethnic matches’ for denying black and minority ethnic children placements with ‘loving and stable families’. The paper draws upon qualitative research with professionals and parents, which shows that the government has failed to take into account the co…
Governing multicultural populations and family life
Shortly after coming to power in Britain, the Conservative-Liberal Democratic alliance placed family life at the heart of their political agenda, and set out their plans to reform adoption. The paper draws upon debates about the reforms and considers them in articulation with concerns about health of the nation expressed in political pronouncements on 'broken Britain' and the failures of 'state multiculturalism'. The paper considers the debates a…
The Sense of Memory
In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in the role of collective memory in ethno-national projects. In addition, there has been an expansion of research utilising memory work and auto/biographical methods, which have been particularly effective in the writing of feminists of colour. The paper is prompted by a return to Avtar Brah's 'The Scent of Memory' that it uses as a starting point to explore the relationships between competin…
Friendship and Fandom
This paper explores the relationships between knowledge of popular culture and power negotiations among young children's friendship groups and derives from a research project on the identity formations of 'mixed race' children. The paper begins with a consideration of existing work on music, ethnicity and cultural identities and how this is implicated in formations of 'imagined communities' (Anderson, 1991, Imagined Communities , Verso). Next, I …
The Creolisation of London Kinship
THE CREOLISATION OF LONDON KINSHIP: MIXED AFRICAN-CARIBBEAN AND WHITE BRITISH EXTENDED FAMILIES, 1950–2003." Ethnic and Racial Studies, 34(12), pp. 2215–2216
Friendship and Fandom
This paper explores the relationships between knowledge of popular culture and power negotiations among young children's friendship groups and derives from a research project on the identity formations of 'mixed race' children. The paper begins with a consideration of existing work on music, ethnicity and cultural identities and how this is implicated in formations of 'imagined communities' (Anderson, 1991, Imagined Communities , Verso). Next, I …
Changing Women, Unchanged Men? Sociological Perspectives on Gender in a Post-industrial Society
Uses of the Exotic
Racializing research
This article engages with the issue of power relations within ethnographic research into 'race'. Taking as its starting point the importance of understanding processes of racialization, it draws upon ethnographic work with children in order to explore the role of reflexivity in managing issues of power in knowledge production. Using the concept of 'subjectivation' it argues that we cannot ever hope to escape (non)hierarchical power relations in r…
Crossing lines
Feminism and Postcolonial
This article charts a partial and situated engagement with some of the debates about the development of feminist and postcolonial theory. It looks at the importance of maintaining an engagement with both these perspectives in contemporary struggles around knowledge/politics in the (British) academy. In addition it discusses the ways in which the conjunction of feminist with postcolonial provides impetus for new methodological agendas in future re…
Troubling times
These are ‘troubled times’. For some, such troubles are felt immediately in and on the body, for others they are filtered through media and representations. But it is not only the ‘trouble’ itself that forms the object of analysis for Judith Butler's paper, it is also the ‘times’; and the plurality of the temporal is key. For Butler, it might be said that time itself, specifically secular time, is the trouble; but a different conception of time m…
Race, gender and educational desire
The Creolisation of London Kinship
THE CREOLISATION OF LONDON KINSHIP: MIXED AFRICAN-CARIBBEAN AND WHITE BRITISH EXTENDED FAMILIES, 1950–2003." Ethnic and Racial Studies, 34(12), pp. 2215–2216
International Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Mixedness and Mixing
People from a ‘mixed’ or ‘inter’ racial and ethnic background, and people partnering and parenting across different racial and ethnic backgrounds, are of increasing political, public and intellectual interest internationally. Contributors to this interdisciplinary collection interrogate notions of mixedness and mixing, and challenge stereotypical assumptions. They advance debates in the field through illuminating the complexity of specific histor…
The Sense of Memory
In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in the role of collective memory in ethno-national projects. In addition, there has been an expansion of research utilising memory work and auto/biographical methods, which have been particularly effective in the writing of feminists of colour. The paper is prompted by a return to Avtar Brah's 'The Scent of Memory' that it uses as a starting point to explore the relationships between competin…
Multicultural families
In 2010, the Coalition government announced its plans for adoption reform which included ‘removing barriers’ to transracial adoption. The government has blamed social workers’ looking for ‘perfect ethnic matches’ for denying black and minority ethnic children placements with ‘loving and stable families’. The paper draws upon qualitative research with professionals and parents, which shows that the government has failed to take into account the co…
Governing multicultural populations and family life
Shortly after coming to power in Britain, the Conservative-Liberal Democratic alliance placed family life at the heart of their political agenda, and set out their plans to reform adoption. The paper draws upon debates about the reforms and considers them in articulation with concerns about health of the nation expressed in political pronouncements on 'broken Britain' and the failures of 'state multiculturalism'. The paper considers the debates a…
Ethics and social research
Visual analysis
Sociology (12 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Race (biology (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Ethnic group (4 works) · Law (4 works)