Azeezat Johnson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4587956 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Azeezat Johnson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Azeezat |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnson |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | , |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1560-8575 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Throwing our bodies against the white background of academia
This paper addresses the difficulty of conducting research about non‐white racialised persons while working within predominantly white academic institutions. Specifically, I examine how to conduct research without representing Black bodies as a fixed, exoticised Other that is oppositional to a disembodied white Self. To do so, I use double consciousness alongside Black feminist work on dialogues as a methodological framework to centre Black Musli…
Refuting “How the other half lives”: I am a woman’s rights
Through this commentary, I hope to trouble the way Black feminists are called on to repeatedly remind predominantly white audiences that white women cannot inherently define the lives of all women
The Fire Now: Anti-Racist Scholarship in Times of Explicit Racial Violence
Not so long ago, many spoke of a ‘post-racial’ era, claiming that advances made by people of colour showed that racial divisions were becoming a thing of the past. But the hollowness of such claims has been exposed by the rise of Trump and Brexit, both of which have revealed deep seated white resentment, and have been attended by a resurgence in hate crime and overt racial hatred on both sides of the Atlantic. At a time when progress towards equa…
Centring Black Muslim women in Britain: A Black feminist project
Johnson, Azeezat. 2017. “‘You’re Othered here and You’re Othered there’: centring the clothing practices of Black Muslim women in Britain.” PhD diss., University of Sheffield.Although feminists hav
Getting comfortable to feel at home: Clothing practices of black muslim women in Britain
This article explores the role of comfort as an affective encounter across bodies, objects (namely clothing) and spaces. I focus on how bodies that are marked as strange and a source of society's discomfort negotiate this positioning through the presentation of one's body. What does it mean for these bodies to be comfortable or uncomfortable? This question is answered through work done with Black Muslim women in Britain. By exploring how comfort …
Throwing our bodies against the white background of academia
This paper addresses the difficulty of conducting research about non‐white racialised persons while working within predominantly white academic institutions. Specifically, I examine how to conduct research without representing Black bodies as a fixed, exoticised Other that is oppositional to a disembodied white Self. To do so, I use double consciousness alongside Black feminist work on dialogues as a methodological framework to centre Black Musli…
Getting comfortable to feel at home: Clothing practices of black muslim women in Britain
This article explores the role of comfort as an affective encounter across bodies, objects (namely clothing) and spaces. I focus on how bodies that are marked as strange and a source of society's discomfort negotiate this positioning through the presentation of one's body. What does it mean for these bodies to be comfortable or uncomfortable? This question is answered through work done with Black Muslim women in Britain. By exploring how comfort …
Centring Black Muslim women in Britain: A Black feminist project
Johnson, Azeezat. 2017. “‘You’re Othered here and You’re Othered there’: centring the clothing practices of Black Muslim women in Britain.” PhD diss., University of Sheffield.Although feminists hav
Refuting “How the other half lives”: I am a woman’s rights
Through this commentary, I hope to trouble the way Black feminists are called on to repeatedly remind predominantly white audiences that white women cannot inherently define the lives of all women
Getting comfortable to feel at home: Clothing practices of black muslim women in Britain
This article explores the role of comfort as an affective encounter across bodies, objects (namely clothing) and spaces. I focus on how bodies that are marked as strange and a source of society's discomfort negotiate this positioning through the presentation of one's body. What does it mean for these bodies to be comfortable or uncomfortable? This question is answered through work done with Black Muslim women in Britain. By exploring how comfort …
The Fire Now: Anti-Racist Scholarship in Times of Explicit Racial Violence
Not so long ago, many spoke of a ‘post-racial’ era, claiming that advances made by people of colour showed that racial divisions were becoming a thing of the past. But the hollowness of such claims has been exposed by the rise of Trump and Brexit, both of which have revealed deep seated white resentment, and have been attended by a resurgence in hate crime and overt racial hatred on both sides of the Atlantic. At a time when progress towards equa…
Centring Black Muslim women in Britain: A Black feminist project
Johnson, Azeezat. 2017. “‘You’re Othered here and You’re Othered there’: centring the clothing practices of Black Muslim women in Britain.” PhD diss., University of Sheffield.Although feminists hav
Throwing our bodies against the white background of academia
This paper addresses the difficulty of conducting research about non‐white racialised persons while working within predominantly white academic institutions. Specifically, I examine how to conduct research without representing Black bodies as a fixed, exoticised Other that is oppositional to a disembodied white Self. To do so, I use double consciousness alongside Black feminist work on dialogues as a methodological framework to centre Black Musli…
Refuting “How the other half lives”: I am a woman’s rights
Through this commentary, I hope to trouble the way Black feminists are called on to repeatedly remind predominantly white audiences that white women cannot inherently define the lives of all women
Gender Studies (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Black women (3 works) · White (mutation) (3 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Social science (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works)