Amani Hassani
Biographic Data
| ID | 3975712 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amani Hassani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amani |
| FAMILY NAME | Hassani |
| SIGNATURE | HASSANI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brunel University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6933-7945 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Erasing Communities
This article examines Denmark’s 2018 public housing policies, arguing they function as a mechanism for managing Muslim communities in public housing estates. It analyses these policies based on a theoretical framework of coloniality and the framing of Muslims as threats to Danish social cohesion. The article then shifts focus to the experiences of racialised residents in targeted housing estates, drawing on ethnographic data from Copenhagen, Aarh…
Racial Capitalism, Welfare Carcerality, and the Danish Ghetto Policies
This article examines the interplay between racial capitalism and the carceral logic of the Danish welfare state through an analysis of the so-called ghetto policies introduced in 2018. These public housing policies target neighborhoods with a majority of Muslim residents. Rather than view these policies as a divergence from the universality of the Danish welfare system, the article argues that they reveal the welfare state's inherent raciality —…
Convivial narratives as agency
This article presents an ethnographic analysis of how young middle-class Muslims in Copenhagen create convivial narratives of their city. The article builds on Paul Gilroy's idea of conviviality by bridging it with Saba Mahmood's concept of agency. I argue that widening the conversation on urban conviviality to include a perspective on agency allows us to expand the sociological imagination to one that combines both phenomenological and critical …
Navigating Racialised Spaces
Copyright © 2022 Author(s). The post-9/11 political climate in Denmark has become explicit in its differentiation between white citizens and racialised Muslim citizens in political rhetoric, public policies and media debates. This article looks at how this differentiation trickles down to public spaces affecting young Muslims’ social and spatial experiences. Drawing on an ethnographic study of young Muslims in Copenhagen, the article examines you…
Muslims and Islamophobia in ‘Raceless’ Societies
Experiencing Loss
Navigating Racialised Spaces
Copyright © 2022 Author(s). The post-9/11 political climate in Denmark has become explicit in its differentiation between white citizens and racialised Muslim citizens in political rhetoric, public policies and media debates. This article looks at how this differentiation trickles down to public spaces affecting young Muslims’ social and spatial experiences. Drawing on an ethnographic study of young Muslims in Copenhagen, the article examines you…
Convivial narratives as agency
This article presents an ethnographic analysis of how young middle-class Muslims in Copenhagen create convivial narratives of their city. The article builds on Paul Gilroy's idea of conviviality by bridging it with Saba Mahmood's concept of agency. I argue that widening the conversation on urban conviviality to include a perspective on agency allows us to expand the sociological imagination to one that combines both phenomenological and critical …
Experiencing Loss
Muslims and Islamophobia in ‘Raceless’ Societies
Navigating Racialised Spaces
Copyright © 2022 Author(s). The post-9/11 political climate in Denmark has become explicit in its differentiation between white citizens and racialised Muslim citizens in political rhetoric, public policies and media debates. This article looks at how this differentiation trickles down to public spaces affecting young Muslims’ social and spatial experiences. Drawing on an ethnographic study of young Muslims in Copenhagen, the article examines you…
Convivial narratives as agency
This article presents an ethnographic analysis of how young middle-class Muslims in Copenhagen create convivial narratives of their city. The article builds on Paul Gilroy's idea of conviviality by bridging it with Saba Mahmood's concept of agency. I argue that widening the conversation on urban conviviality to include a perspective on agency allows us to expand the sociological imagination to one that combines both phenomenological and critical …
Erasing Communities
This article examines Denmark’s 2018 public housing policies, arguing they function as a mechanism for managing Muslim communities in public housing estates. It analyses these policies based on a theoretical framework of coloniality and the framing of Muslims as threats to Danish social cohesion. The article then shifts focus to the experiences of racialised residents in targeted housing estates, drawing on ethnographic data from Copenhagen, Aarh…
Racial Capitalism, Welfare Carcerality, and the Danish Ghetto Policies
This article examines the interplay between racial capitalism and the carceral logic of the Danish welfare state through an analysis of the so-called ghetto policies introduced in 2018. These public housing policies target neighborhoods with a majority of Muslim residents. Rather than view these policies as a divergence from the universality of the Danish welfare system, the article argues that they reveal the welfare state's inherent raciality —…
Migration, Refugees, and Integration (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Islamophobia (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)