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NADIYA N. ALI, PhD
Assistant Professor
Sociology Department 
Trent University  
Conference 
UC Berkeley 
Center for Race and Gender
10th Annual Islamophobia Conference
04.2019
Conference
 113th American Sociological Association - Annual Meeting: "Feeling Race"
08.2018

RECENT & UPCOMING ENGAGMENTS 

Conference
Black Canadian Studies Association 
Congress 2019
06.2019
 
 

LATEST PUBLICATION 

Image Credit:(mus)interperted exhbit

TITLE 

"Emancipation in an Islamophobic age: Finding agency in nonrecognition, refusal, and self-recognition." Journal of Critical Race Inquiry, 5(1):1-26. Barriers and Boundaries: New Perspectives on Racialization and Citizenship 

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ABSTRACT
The existing Islamophobia literature has aptly illustrated how the tragedy of 9/11 and the discourses that followed have situated ‘Muslims’ in a multifaceted system of reductive caricatures and security structures such that the Muslim subject “can at a moment’s notice be erected as [an] object of supervision and discipline” (Morey and Yaqin 2011: 5-6). The current paper builds off this structural analysis, however orients attention to the agents that sit at the receiving end of this architecture. Examining an annual multi-medium exhibit featuring the artistic works of Muslim women in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), I ask what (re)imaginings and possibilities of place, voice and emancipation are available in our Islamophobic age? What possibilities can we detangle from closely engaging with the negotiation patterns of the agents living the everyday of Islamophobia [...]There will also be a sustained attention given to issues of recognition/misrecognition /nonrecognition, broadly asking if the politics of recognition is framed as the site for emancipatory re-imaginings, or as the curators put it, as the grounds for “inclusive-future[s]”?.

"On November 7th, ArtReach attended (Mus)interpreted – the incredible showcase of The Truth or Dare Project, and curated by Zahra Agjee and Leila Fatemi...."
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