Saba Hussain
Biographic Data
| ID | 3983969 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Saba Hussain |
| GIVEN NAMES | Saba |
| FAMILY NAME | Hussain |
| SIGNATURE | HUSSAIN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9804-660X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Beyond the manosphere
The manosphere is a loose network of anti-feminist and more broadly reactionary male-centred online spaces, influencers and communities. A range of scholars, activists, practitioners and policy makers have turned their attention to generating strategies aimed at countering the misogynistic reactionary ideologies that boys and young men influenced by the manosphere are increasingly adopting. While great work is being undertaken in this space, what…
Minoritised migrant women in academia as translocational outsiders within
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 …
Online misogyny and pedagogies of Hindutva digital subjectivation
Positioned within the wider political, socioeconomic and cultural context of contemporary India's regressive and anti-feminist trajectory, this article examines the ‘Indian manosphere' and how it contributes towards the Hindutva digital subjectivation of young men – a pedagogical process that shapes their understanding of self, identity, history, and future aspirations. We propose that the overlapping pedagogies explored in this article engender …
Feminist counter-authoritarian political agency
Drawing on ‘voices’ of Muslim girls reported in a purposive sample of media, this research presents Muslim girls' responses to the impossible choice between right to education and vs. religion, following the hijab ban in the colleges in Karnataka, India. Their narratives do not fit conventional understandings of ‘being’ political or ‘doing’ politics. Instead, they are situated in a continuum of new-forms of political protest and agency emerging a…
Decolonising Gender in South Asia
Right‐wing populism and education
This introduction offers an overview of the concept of populism, the debates around its definitions and its relationship with democracy and the significance of attending to populist politics in the context of education. It also lays out the political contexts in which authors have engaged with education and populist politics in the UK, Brazil and Israel, and the ways in which they understand populist shifts in education. Detailing the two main co…
Bhal Suwali , Bhal Ghor
There appears to be a globally unifying discourse that suggests Muslim communities are not supportive of girls’ education11 Good girl.22 Good family.. This paper aims to destabilize such a discourse by inserting the narratives of Muslim parents pursuing girls’ education in Assam’s Nagaon district. By paying attention to the concepts of bhal suwali (good girlhood) and bhal ghor (good family) articulated by parents in my study, this paper connects …
Social justice, politics of authorisation and agency
Decolonising gender in South Asia
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
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…
Right‐wing populism and education
This introduction offers an overview of the concept of populism, the debates around its definitions and its relationship with democracy and the significance of attending to populist politics in the context of education. It also lays out the political contexts in which authors have engaged with education and populist politics in the UK, Brazil and Israel, and the ways in which they understand populist shifts in education. Detailing the two main co…
Social justice, politics of authorisation and agency
Online misogyny and pedagogies of Hindutva digital subjectivation
Positioned within the wider political, socioeconomic and cultural context of contemporary India's regressive and anti-feminist trajectory, this article examines the ‘Indian manosphere' and how it contributes towards the Hindutva digital subjectivation of young men – a pedagogical process that shapes their understanding of self, identity, history, and future aspirations. We propose that the overlapping pedagogies explored in this article engender …
Bhal Suwali , Bhal Ghor
There appears to be a globally unifying discourse that suggests Muslim communities are not supportive of girls’ education11 Good girl.22 Good family.. This paper aims to destabilize such a discourse by inserting the narratives of Muslim parents pursuing girls’ education in Assam’s Nagaon district. By paying attention to the concepts of bhal suwali (good girlhood) and bhal ghor (good family) articulated by parents in my study, this paper connects …
The (im)possibility of decolonising gender in South Asia
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…
Social justice, politics of authorisation and agency
Decolonising gender in South Asia
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
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…
Bhal Suwali , Bhal Ghor
There appears to be a globally unifying discourse that suggests Muslim communities are not supportive of girls’ education11 Good girl.22 Good family.. This paper aims to destabilize such a discourse by inserting the narratives of Muslim parents pursuing girls’ education in Assam’s Nagaon district. By paying attention to the concepts of bhal suwali (good girlhood) and bhal ghor (good family) articulated by parents in my study, this paper connects …
Decolonising Gender in South Asia
Right‐wing populism and education
This introduction offers an overview of the concept of populism, the debates around its definitions and its relationship with democracy and the significance of attending to populist politics in the context of education. It also lays out the political contexts in which authors have engaged with education and populist politics in the UK, Brazil and Israel, and the ways in which they understand populist shifts in education. Detailing the two main co…
Feminist counter-authoritarian political agency
Drawing on ‘voices’ of Muslim girls reported in a purposive sample of media, this research presents Muslim girls' responses to the impossible choice between right to education and vs. religion, following the hijab ban in the colleges in Karnataka, India. Their narratives do not fit conventional understandings of ‘being’ political or ‘doing’ politics. Instead, they are situated in a continuum of new-forms of political protest and agency emerging a…
Minoritised migrant women in academia as translocational outsiders within
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 …
Online misogyny and pedagogies of Hindutva digital subjectivation
Positioned within the wider political, socioeconomic and cultural context of contemporary India's regressive and anti-feminist trajectory, this article examines the ‘Indian manosphere' and how it contributes towards the Hindutva digital subjectivation of young men – a pedagogical process that shapes their understanding of self, identity, history, and future aspirations. We propose that the overlapping pedagogies explored in this article engender …
Beyond the manosphere
The manosphere is a loose network of anti-feminist and more broadly reactionary male-centred online spaces, influencers and communities. A range of scholars, activists, practitioners and policy makers have turned their attention to generating strategies aimed at countering the misogynistic reactionary ideologies that boys and young men influenced by the manosphere are increasingly adopting. While great work is being undertaken in this space, what…
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Narrative (3 works)