Sunaina Maira
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 109402 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Sunaina Maira |
| PRENOMES | Sunaina |
| SOBRENOME | Maira |
| ASSINATURA | MAIRA S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, Davis |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 46 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 195 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
This Flame Within and Life as Resistance
Manijeh Moradian's This Flame Within is a pathbreaking contribution to ethnic and transnational feminist studies that helps expand the field of Asian American studies and rewrite its genealogy from a new perspective—a new movement, region, and archive. It is informed by Moradian's research on west Asian diasporic struggles, specifically the history of the Iranian leftist student movement in the United States in the context of antiwar/anti-imperia…
Introduction
This forum responds to the questions posed for the field of Asian American studies by the grassroots organizing around the category SWANA, or Southwest Asia and North Africa. The move to SWANA is significant for Asian American studies and presents questions for the field: What are the political contours of Asia and North Africa in SWANA? Is Asian American studies capacious enough to engage with SWANA diaspora studies? How has the field engaged wi…
AAAS Forty Years On
5 AAAS Forty Years OnThe Boycott, Internationalism, and West Asian American Critique Sunaina Maira (bio) In this essay, I reflect on the interventions made by the Association of Asian American Studies (AAAS) and scholars in the field of Asian American studies in relation to West Asia and West Asian American studies, drawing partly on a talk I gave for a plenary, "Urgent Solidarities: Resisting Racial and Ethnic Divisions" at the AAAS conference i…
Thinking Resistance, “Emergency,” and Kismet
Thinking Resistance, “Emergency,” and Kismet: A Response to Dylan Rodríguez’s Presidential Address Sunaina Maira (bio) Dylan Rodríguez’s presidential address in October 2021 was delivered at a virtual conference, in that not-quite-new but still strange digital space that we have inhabited for our work and collective gatherings since the onset of COVID-19. Rodríguez begins his eloquent talk by acknowledging Indigenous Peoples Day and issuing an ur…
The academic boycott movement
The essay explores how the academic boycott of Israel advocates for the right to education and right to freedom of movement of Palestinians by reflecting on the politics of space, mobility, and borders in Palestine. I situate the boycott movement in the context of struggles over the neoliberalization of the academy and academic repression, especially censorship of the Palestine question, and in relation to movements for social and economic justic…
Enforcing Silence
For a long time in the academy, the elephant in the room was the question of Palestine, and it is the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement that helped that elephant appear
The War of My Generation
Following the 9/11 attacks, approximately four million Americans have turned eighteen each year and more than fifty million children have been born. These members of the millennial and post-millennial generation have come of age in a moment marked by increased anxiety about terrorism, two protracted wars, and policies that have raised questions about the United States's role abroad and at home. Young people have not been shielded from the attacks…
Freedom to Move, Freedom to Stay, Freedom to Return
This article focuses on the sanctuary movement in the United States and Europe, putting into conversation with one another migrant solidarity activists from different national contexts. This transnational roundtable draws on interviews with activists in the San Francisco Bay Area as well as in the United Kingdom and Switzerland, and on a workshop on sanctuary activism that involved forty activists from the Bay Area, Europe, and Australia. The art…
At the Limits of Justice
Global Raciality
Boycott
Global Raciality
The 9/11 Generation
In The 9/11 Generation, Sunaina Marr Maira uses extensive ethnography to understand the meaning of political subjecthood and mobilization for Arab, South Asian, and Afghan American youth. Maira explores how young people from communities targeted in the War on Terror engage with the “political,” forging coalitions based on new racial and ethnic categories, even while they are under constant scrutiny and surveillance, and organizing around notions …
Hisham D. Aidi, Rebel Music
The Imperial University
Imperial University
Dispatches from Pepper Spray University
This essay situates the pepper spraying of student protesters at the University of California, Davis, and the Occupy protests in the University of California system within a larger global economic and political apparatus that has defunded public higher education and suppressed protest movements. It links a critique of violently imposed fiscal "austerity" to militarized regimes of policing and surveillance at UC Davis and other UC campuses that ex…
Hip Hop from '48 Palestine
This essay explores hip hop produced by Palestinian youth within the 1948 borders of Israel, a site that reveals some of the most acute contradictions of nationalism, citizenship, and settler colonialism. It focuses primarily on the pioneering Palestinian hip-hop group DAM, from Lid, and also on Arapeyat from Akka, Saz from Ramleh, and Awlad el Hara from Nazareth. The article offers the concept of the “present absent” as a profound analytic lens …
Citizenship and dissent
This essay focuses on issues of dissent and citizenship for South Asian Muslim immigrant youth after 9/11 as they intersect with questions of youth culture and cultural consumption and are inflected by class and gender. Everyday experiences of national belonging or cultural citizenship for these youth are shaped by US imperial power, and what I call ‘imperial feelings,’ and by the biopolitics of neoliberal capitalism. Based on ethnographic resear…
Missing
In Missing, Sunaina Marr Maira explores how young South Asian Muslim immigrants living in the United States experienced and understood national belonging (or exclusion) at a particular moment in the history of U.S. imperialism: in the years immediately following September 11, 2001. Drawing on ethnographic research in a New England high school, Maira investigates the cultural dimensions of citizenship for South Asian Muslim students and their rela…
Desi Land
American Karma
by Sunil Bhatia, New York, New York University Press, 2007, 270 pp., US$23.00 (paperback), ISBN 9780814799581 Sunil Bhatia’s study of middle‐class, professional Indian immigrants in the USA is a la
Belly Dancing
Belly dancing has become especially trendy among non-Arab women across the United States since the 1990s and in the San Francisco Bay Area where it was popularized in the 1960s and 1970s with the emergence of female liberation movements focusing on body politics. This article reflects on what it means for American women to stage Middle Eastern dance at a time when the United States is engaged in war and occupation in the Middle East and there is …
Screaming monkeys
Boycott!
"The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement (BDS) has expanded rapidly though controversially in the United States in the last five years. The academic boycott of Israeli academic institutions is a key component of that movement. What is this boycott? Why does it make sense? And why is this an American Studies issue? These key questions and others are answered in this short essential book. Boycott! situates the academic boycott in the broade…
Identity Dub
Youth Culture, Citizenship and Globalization
Research Article| May 01 2004 Youth Culture, Citizenship and Globalization: South Asian Muslim Youth in the United States After September 11th Sunaina Maira Sunaina Maira Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2004) 24 (1): 221–235. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-24-1-221 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Revie…
Belly Dancing
Belly dancing has become especially trendy among non-Arab women across the United States since the 1990s and in the San Francisco Bay Area where it was popularized in the 1960s and 1970s with the emergence of female liberation movements focusing on body politics. This article reflects on what it means for American women to stage Middle Eastern dance at a time when the United States is engaged in war and occupation in the Middle East and there is …
Henna and Hip Hop
Journal of Asian American Studies - Volume 3, Number 3, October 2000
Targeting Arab/Muslim/South Asian Americans
In this essay, we further explore the responses of Arab and South Asian Muslim communities to the War on Terror, and ask whether these responses reveal alliance-building and pan-ethnic identification. Do the targeted groups, now portrayed as monolithic, find solidarity with each other, and if so, what are the bases for their sense of affinity. These questions force us to consider the deeper issues of pan-ethnic and political affiliation that high…
United States of Adolescence
This article offers an analytic review of US youth culture studies, which is defined as research that recognizes the agency of youth - their meaning-making, cultural productions, and social engagements - in relationship to cultural and political contexts. The article focuses on four selected areas of research that are influential in US youth culture studies: developmental research, the ‘youth crisis’ literature, educational research, and subcultu…
De-Privileging Positions
This is not an essay about the marginalization of South Asian Americans within Asian American studies. And yet, ironically, it is--about moving from margin-center terminologies, California-centric, 1968-genesis theories, and "we were here first" mentalities, towards a progressive, intellectual paradigmatic shift, and a new vision of Asian American studies scholarship and pedagogy. This essay focuses on the emerging field of South Asian American s…
Flexible Citizenship/Flexible Empire
This article focuses on the ways in which young South Asian Muslim immigrants living in the U.S. express ideas of national and transnational belonging during the War on Terror. Based on an ethnographic study in New England, the research explores how a group of working-class Muslim immigrant youth grappled with issues of displacement, belonging, and exclusion that extended well before and after 2001 but were heightened in the post-9/11 moment. The…
Dispatches from Pepper Spray University
This essay situates the pepper spraying of student protesters at the University of California, Davis, and the Occupy protests in the University of California system within a larger global economic and political apparatus that has defunded public higher education and suppressed protest movements. It links a critique of violently imposed fiscal "austerity" to militarized regimes of policing and surveillance at UC Davis and other UC campuses that ex…
We Ain't Missing
“We Ain’t Missing”Palestinian Hip Hop—A Transnational Youth Movement Sunaina Maira (bio) “when privilege will yield indifference / like history needs some Ritalin like misery sees your system as / an accessory for pillaging / meant to be the end of it whether you an immigrant or children of slavesyou can see it in the difference / of the living in conditionslike missions tortured indians / force ’em to christianswe call ’em Palest-indians / we ai…
Meeting Asian/Arab American Studies
Meeting Asian/Arab American StudiesThinking Race, Empire, and Zionism in the U.S. Sunaina Maira (bio) and Magid Shihade (bio) I am the witness of the massacre I am the victim of the map I am the son of simple words . . . —Mahmoud Darwish, from "Poem of the Land"1 Speak, your lips still have their liberty Speak, still yours is the spoken word . . . Speak, for the truth is alive even now Speak, say all you wish you had said. —Faiz Ahmed Faiz, from …
Deporting Radicals, Deporting La Migra
This article will examine the nature of deportation as a logic that upholds state sovereignty and constructions of citizenship through technologies of exclusion, discipline, and `removal'. Regulations of immigrant populations by the state rely on notions of unwanted bodies that contaminate or threaten the national body politic and so must be cleansed from national territory. My research focuses on the impact of post-9/11 policies of surveillance,…
Desis reprazent
(1998). Desis reprazent : Bhangra remix and hip hop in New York City. Postcolonial Studies: Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 357-370
Citizenship and dissent
This essay focuses on issues of dissent and citizenship for South Asian Muslim immigrant youth after 9/11 as they intersect with questions of youth culture and cultural consumption and are inflected by class and gender. Everyday experiences of national belonging or cultural citizenship for these youth are shaped by US imperial power, and what I call ‘imperial feelings,’ and by the biopolitics of neoliberal capitalism. Based on ethnographic resear…
Hip Hop from '48 Palestine
This essay explores hip hop produced by Palestinian youth within the 1948 borders of Israel, a site that reveals some of the most acute contradictions of nationalism, citizenship, and settler colonialism. It focuses primarily on the pioneering Palestinian hip-hop group DAM, from Lid, and also on Arapeyat from Akka, Saz from Ramleh, and Awlad el Hara from Nazareth. The article offers the concept of the “present absent” as a profound analytic lens …
Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity
Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity. Smadar Lavie and Ted Swedenburg. eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1996. 332 pp
Enforcing Silence
For a long time in the academy, the elephant in the room was the question of Palestine, and it is the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement that helped that elephant appear
Desi Land
Ideologies of Authenticity
(1999). Ideologies of Authenticity: Youth, Politics, and Diaspora. Amerasia Journal: Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 139-150
Introduction
This forum responds to the questions posed for the field of Asian American studies by the grassroots organizing around the category SWANA, or Southwest Asia and North Africa. The move to SWANA is significant for Asian American studies and presents questions for the field: What are the political contours of Asia and North Africa in SWANA? Is Asian American studies capacious enough to engage with SWANA diaspora studies? How has the field engaged wi…
Freedom to Move, Freedom to Stay, Freedom to Return
This article focuses on the sanctuary movement in the United States and Europe, putting into conversation with one another migrant solidarity activists from different national contexts. This transnational roundtable draws on interviews with activists in the San Francisco Bay Area as well as in the United Kingdom and Switzerland, and on a workshop on sanctuary activism that involved forty activists from the Bay Area, Europe, and Australia. The art…
Guest Editor's Preface
Guest Editor’s Preface Sunaina Maira (bio) This special issue of JAAS emerged from two moments: one, a specific academic event, and the other, a larger historical and political crisis, both of which crystallized a set of questions at the core of Asian American studies that necessitate a focused discussion. The first moment was a plenary session on the intersections of Asian American and Arab American studies at the annual Association of Asian Ame…
Desis reprazent
(1998). Desis reprazent : Bhangra remix and hip hop in New York City. Postcolonial Studies: Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 357-370
Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity
Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity. Smadar Lavie and Ted Swedenburg. eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1996. 332 pp
Contours of the Heart
Journal Article Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America. Eds. Sunaina Maira and Rajini Srikanth. New York: The Asian American Writers’ Workshops, 1996. xxi + 480 pages. $16.95 paper. Get access Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America. Eds. Sunaina Maira and Rajini Srikanth. New York: The Asian American Writers’ Workshops, 1996. xxi + 480 pages. $16.95 paper. Jennifer A. Ho Jennifer A. Ho Boston University Search for ot…
Ideologies of Authenticity
(1999). Ideologies of Authenticity: Youth, Politics, and Diaspora. Amerasia Journal: Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 139-150
Identity Dub
Henna and Hip Hop
Journal of Asian American Studies - Volume 3, Number 3, October 2000
De-Privileging Positions
This is not an essay about the marginalization of South Asian Americans within Asian American studies. And yet, ironically, it is--about moving from margin-center terminologies, California-centric, 1968-genesis theories, and "we were here first" mentalities, towards a progressive, intellectual paradigmatic shift, and a new vision of Asian American studies scholarship and pedagogy. This essay focuses on the emerging field of South Asian American s…
Temporary Tattoos
Research Article| September 01 2002 Temporary Tattoos: Indo-Chic Fantasies and Late Capitalist Orientalism Sunaina Maira Sunaina Maira sunaina maira is Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies in English and Anthropology and co-director of the undergraduate certificate program in Asian and Asian American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the author of Desis in the House: Indian American Youth Culture in New York (Te…
TranceGlobalNation
Becoming Asian American
Reviewed by: Becoming Asian American: Second-Generation Chinese and Korean American Identities Sunaina Maira Becoming Asian American: Second-Generation Chinese and Korean American Identities, by Nazli Kibria . Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 2002. Nazli Kibria's qualitative study is an important and welcome addition to the growing body of work on second-generation Asian Americans. Becoming Asian [End Page 332] American: …
States of Exception
Book Review| August 01 2003 States of Exception: Everyday Life and Postcolonial Identity Keya Ganguly Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. Pp. 214. Sunaina Maira Sunaina Maira Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2003) 23 (1-2): 349–351. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-23-1-2-349 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citati…
Desis in the House
United States of Adolescence
This article offers an analytic review of US youth culture studies, which is defined as research that recognizes the agency of youth - their meaning-making, cultural productions, and social engagements - in relationship to cultural and political contexts. The article focuses on four selected areas of research that are influential in US youth culture studies: developmental research, the ‘youth crisis’ literature, educational research, and subcultu…
Youth Culture, Citizenship and Globalization
Research Article| May 01 2004 Youth Culture, Citizenship and Globalization: South Asian Muslim Youth in the United States After September 11th Sunaina Maira Sunaina Maira Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2004) 24 (1): 221–235. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-24-1-221 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Revie…
Youthscapes
Foreword -George Lipsitz Introduction -Sunaina Maira and Elisabeth Soep PART I. DOCUMENTS AND TAGS 1. Straight Outta Mogadishu: Prescribed Identities and Performative Practices Among Somali Youth in North American High Schools -Murray Forman 2. Gangs and Their Walls -Ralph Cintron 3. Race Bending: Mixed Youth Practicing Strategic Racialization in California -Mica Pollock 4. The Intimate and the Imperial: South Asian Muslim Immigrant Youth After 9…
Targeting Arab/Muslim/South Asian Americans
In this essay, we further explore the responses of Arab and South Asian Muslim communities to the War on Terror, and ask whether these responses reveal alliance-building and pan-ethnic identification. Do the targeted groups, now portrayed as monolithic, find solidarity with each other, and if so, what are the bases for their sense of affinity. These questions force us to consider the deeper issues of pan-ethnic and political affiliation that high…
Meeting Asian/Arab American Studies
Meeting Asian/Arab American StudiesThinking Race, Empire, and Zionism in the U.S. Sunaina Maira (bio) and Magid Shihade (bio) I am the witness of the massacre I am the victim of the map I am the son of simple words . . . —Mahmoud Darwish, from "Poem of the Land"1 Speak, your lips still have their liberty Speak, still yours is the spoken word . . . Speak, for the truth is alive even now Speak, say all you wish you had said. —Faiz Ahmed Faiz, from …
Guest Editor's Preface
Guest Editor’s Preface Sunaina Maira (bio) This special issue of JAAS emerged from two moments: one, a specific academic event, and the other, a larger historical and political crisis, both of which crystallized a set of questions at the core of Asian American studies that necessitate a focused discussion. The first moment was a plenary session on the intersections of Asian American and Arab American studies at the annual Association of Asian Ame…
Deporting Radicals, Deporting La Migra
This article will examine the nature of deportation as a logic that upholds state sovereignty and constructions of citizenship through technologies of exclusion, discipline, and `removal'. Regulations of immigrant populations by the state rely on notions of unwanted bodies that contaminate or threaten the national body politic and so must be cleansed from national territory. My research focuses on the impact of post-9/11 policies of surveillance,…
Belly Dancing
Belly dancing has become especially trendy among non-Arab women across the United States since the 1990s and in the San Francisco Bay Area where it was popularized in the 1960s and 1970s with the emergence of female liberation movements focusing on body politics. This article reflects on what it means for American women to stage Middle Eastern dance at a time when the United States is engaged in war and occupation in the Middle East and there is …
We Ain't Missing
“We Ain’t Missing”Palestinian Hip Hop—A Transnational Youth Movement Sunaina Maira (bio) “when privilege will yield indifference / like history needs some Ritalin like misery sees your system as / an accessory for pillaging / meant to be the end of it whether you an immigrant or children of slavesyou can see it in the difference / of the living in conditionslike missions tortured indians / force ’em to christianswe call ’em Palest-indians / we ai…
Flexible Citizenship/Flexible Empire
This article focuses on the ways in which young South Asian Muslim immigrants living in the U.S. express ideas of national and transnational belonging during the War on Terror. Based on an ethnographic study in New England, the research explores how a group of working-class Muslim immigrant youth grappled with issues of displacement, belonging, and exclusion that extended well before and after 2001 but were heightened in the post-9/11 moment. The…
Missing
In Missing, Sunaina Marr Maira explores how young South Asian Muslim immigrants living in the United States experienced and understood national belonging (or exclusion) at a particular moment in the history of U.S. imperialism: in the years immediately following September 11, 2001. Drawing on ethnographic research in a New England high school, Maira investigates the cultural dimensions of citizenship for South Asian Muslim students and their rela…
Desi Land
American Karma
by Sunil Bhatia, New York, New York University Press, 2007, 270 pp., US$23.00 (paperback), ISBN 9780814799581 Sunil Bhatia’s study of middle‐class, professional Indian immigrants in the USA is a la
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