Yasmeen Narayan
Biographic Data
| ID | 638800 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yasmeen Narayan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yasmeen |
| FAMILY NAME | Narayan |
| SIGNATURE | NARAYAN Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birkbeck, University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Towards a Reparatory Theory of Creolization
This article presents a transtemporal analysis of subsistence land cultivation in late eighteenth and nineteenth-century Jamaica and British Guiana that unfolds into a reparatory theory of creolization. I examine the transconjunctural, transcontinental tributaries and hybridisation of specific elements of Greek thought and Islam through the Greek Arabic translation movement in ‘Irāq from the mid-eighth century. I focus on the sites where translat…
Police violence and biocolonisation
This essay presents a transdisciplinary, reparatory history of police violence in Britain during the nineteen seventies and eighties. I consider how the histories of transcontinental colonial nationalisms and anticolonial internationalisms were intertwined with the development of transcolonial counterinsurgency operations and local modes of policing from the late eighteenth century. I argue that this is essential to an understanding of police vio…
Intersectionality, nationalisms, biocoloniality
The early twenty-first century is marked by new postcolonial nationalist ideologies and their indifference to modern histories of colonisation and the urgent need for anti-nationalist theories of racialised subjectification. I discuss the importance of work on 'intersectionality' and consider how some theoretical formations reproduce core elements of 'common sense' nationalisms such as universal, fixed racial categories, the gender binary and the…
On Biocoloniality and ‘Respectability’ in Contemporary London
This essay is framed by discussions on the civil unrest in British cities in 2011, the politics of austerity, the mass unemployment of the young, ‘the war on terror’ and ‘radicalisation’ and the vulnerability of the poor and ‘unrespectable’. It advances a concept of biocoloniality and explores ‘respectability’, class and transnational postcolonial urban cultures in contemporary London. The essay argues for a theorisation which can account for how…
On Post-Colonial Authority, Caribbeanness , Reiteration and Political Community
This paper is a dialogue with particular threads of Hall's work on racialized subjectification and the words and other practices of a single respondent. Framed by re-emergent notions of fixed, unchanging identities and bounded, homogeneous ‘secular’ and ‘religious’ cultures and communities embedded in contemporary political discourse on the ‘rights’ and ‘responsibilities’ and ‘core values’ of ‘Britain's citizens’, this paper considers how post-co…
An Ordinary Love
Analysing ethnographic interview material on ‘domestic violence’, the article advances a non-sovereign notion of an unbounded subject who is essentially dependent on others in their (re)formation. I discuss how the subject's experiential sense of a singular, bounded, continuous and autonomous self comes into being in relation to who can ‘possibly’ be desired and loved. I further consider how the practising selves of the ‘I’ come into being in rel…
Intersectionality, nationalisms, biocoloniality
The early twenty-first century is marked by new postcolonial nationalist ideologies and their indifference to modern histories of colonisation and the urgent need for anti-nationalist theories of racialised subjectification. I discuss the importance of work on 'intersectionality' and consider how some theoretical formations reproduce core elements of 'common sense' nationalisms such as universal, fixed racial categories, the gender binary and the…
An Ordinary Love
Analysing ethnographic interview material on ‘domestic violence’, the article advances a non-sovereign notion of an unbounded subject who is essentially dependent on others in their (re)formation. I discuss how the subject's experiential sense of a singular, bounded, continuous and autonomous self comes into being in relation to who can ‘possibly’ be desired and loved. I further consider how the practising selves of the ‘I’ come into being in rel…
An Ordinary Love
Analysing ethnographic interview material on ‘domestic violence’, the article advances a non-sovereign notion of an unbounded subject who is essentially dependent on others in their (re)formation. I discuss how the subject's experiential sense of a singular, bounded, continuous and autonomous self comes into being in relation to who can ‘possibly’ be desired and loved. I further consider how the practising selves of the ‘I’ come into being in rel…
On Post-Colonial Authority, Caribbeanness , Reiteration and Political Community
This paper is a dialogue with particular threads of Hall's work on racialized subjectification and the words and other practices of a single respondent. Framed by re-emergent notions of fixed, unchanging identities and bounded, homogeneous ‘secular’ and ‘religious’ cultures and communities embedded in contemporary political discourse on the ‘rights’ and ‘responsibilities’ and ‘core values’ of ‘Britain's citizens’, this paper considers how post-co…
On Biocoloniality and ‘Respectability’ in Contemporary London
This essay is framed by discussions on the civil unrest in British cities in 2011, the politics of austerity, the mass unemployment of the young, ‘the war on terror’ and ‘radicalisation’ and the vulnerability of the poor and ‘unrespectable’. It advances a concept of biocoloniality and explores ‘respectability’, class and transnational postcolonial urban cultures in contemporary London. The essay argues for a theorisation which can account for how…
Intersectionality, nationalisms, biocoloniality
The early twenty-first century is marked by new postcolonial nationalist ideologies and their indifference to modern histories of colonisation and the urgent need for anti-nationalist theories of racialised subjectification. I discuss the importance of work on 'intersectionality' and consider how some theoretical formations reproduce core elements of 'common sense' nationalisms such as universal, fixed racial categories, the gender binary and the…
Police violence and biocolonisation
This essay presents a transdisciplinary, reparatory history of police violence in Britain during the nineteen seventies and eighties. I consider how the histories of transcontinental colonial nationalisms and anticolonial internationalisms were intertwined with the development of transcolonial counterinsurgency operations and local modes of policing from the late eighteenth century. I argue that this is essential to an understanding of police vio…
Towards a Reparatory Theory of Creolization
This article presents a transtemporal analysis of subsistence land cultivation in late eighteenth and nineteenth-century Jamaica and British Guiana that unfolds into a reparatory theory of creolization. I examine the transconjunctural, transcontinental tributaries and hybridisation of specific elements of Greek thought and Islam through the Greek Arabic translation movement in ‘Irāq from the mid-eighth century. I focus on the sites where translat…
Politics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Subjectification (3 works)