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Hope as a Discipline: Reflecting on the Lebanese Revolution (2023)
Digital Artefact
Chamas, S., Sayegh, G., & Alessandrini, A. (2023). Hope as a Discipline: Reflecting on the Lebanese Revolution. [Podcast]

In this episode (recorded 2022), Sophie Chamas and Ghiwa Sayegh reflect on the experience of listening back to our conversation about the Lebanese revolution of 2019-20 at a much less hopeful moment. They consider the importance of looking back, both... Read More about Hope as a Discipline: Reflecting on the Lebanese Revolution.

Wartime violence and partner violence (2023)
Book Chapter
Istratii, R. (2023). Wartime violence and partner violence. In P. Ali, & M. M. Rogers (Eds.), Comprehensive Guide of Gender-Based Violence For Nurses and Healthcare Professionals (335-349). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05640-6_25

The current chapter discusses the relationship between wartime and intimate partner violence, focusing on women’s perspectives and experiences of the effects of war on their partners and the family context. The review engaged with studies drawn prima... Read More about Wartime violence and partner violence.

The Anti-Feminism of Anti-Trans Feminism (2023)
Journal Article
Tudor, A. (2023). The Anti-Feminism of Anti-Trans Feminism. European Journal of Women's Studies, 30(2), 290-302. https://doi.org/10.1177/13505068231164217

Trans-exclusionary feminists are using the trope of ‘protecting women’ as their main weapon while accusing trans-inclusive feminisms of misogyny. It is a rhetorical figure that we can call ‘the weaponization of accusations of violence’. And we witnes... Read More about The Anti-Feminism of Anti-Trans Feminism.

The accompanier and the accompanied in Occupied Palestine: human rights activism, and the self who intervenes (2023)
Thesis
Elce, B. The accompanier and the accompanied in Occupied Palestine: human rights activism, and the self who intervenes. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This interdisciplinary study uses the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI) as a case study through which to explore and critique accompaniment as a form of nonviolent, transnational, civil society intervention in the occ... Read More about The accompanier and the accompanied in Occupied Palestine: human rights activism, and the self who intervenes.

The Political Economy of Women’s Political Participation in Rwanda: Gender, Class, and State-building (2023)
Thesis
Jin, X. The Political Economy of Women’s Political Participation in Rwanda: Gender, Class, and State-building. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis highlights the significance of political economy in women’s political participation in post-genocide Rwanda. It builds on gender studies, feminist International Relations and political economy, African feminism, development, and politics,... Read More about The Political Economy of Women’s Political Participation in Rwanda: Gender, Class, and State-building.

The Balfour Conversations: British human rights activists and the call to reckon with implication (2022)
Journal Article
Elce, B. (2024). The Balfour Conversations: British human rights activists and the call to reckon with implication. Interventions, 26(2), 250-267. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801x.2022.2158483

As the Great Power which initially authorized the Zionist settler-colonial project in historic Palestine, Britain has played a decisive role in the one hundred-year war against Palestinians. This essay analyses moments of encounter between Palestinia... Read More about The Balfour Conversations: British human rights activists and the call to reckon with implication.

Corporate India after Section 377: haphazardness and strategy in LGBTQ diversity and inclusion advocacy (2022)
Journal Article
Aaberg, L. (2024). Corporate India after Section 377: haphazardness and strategy in LGBTQ diversity and inclusion advocacy. Gender, Place and Culture, 31(9), 1235-1252. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369x.2022.2146660

It is increasingly common for advocates for LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer) workspace benefits and protections to argue for equitable treatment by utilizing the ‘business case’, or the argument that fostering a diverse and inclusiv... Read More about Corporate India after Section 377: haphazardness and strategy in LGBTQ diversity and inclusion advocacy.

Mothering practices in times of legal precarity: activism, care, and resistance in displacement (2022)
Journal Article
Suerbaum, M., & Lijnders, L. (2023). Mothering practices in times of legal precarity: activism, care, and resistance in displacement. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 46(2), 191-212. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2023.2125332

This introduction studies the experiences of racialized migrant women by focusing on three analytical dimensions: mothering, including care work and reproduction; legal precarity caused by the encounter with migration and border regimes; and gendered... Read More about Mothering practices in times of legal precarity: activism, care, and resistance in displacement.

Mourning Sarah Hegazi: Grief and the Cultivation of Queer Arabness (2022)
Journal Article
Chamas, S., & Allouche, S. (2022). Mourning Sarah Hegazi: Grief and the Cultivation of Queer Arabness. Women's studies quarterly, 50(3/4), 230-249. https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2022.0046

In this article, we engage in a discursive analysis and affective reading of written and recorded responses to the suicide of Sarah Hegazi, an Egyptian queer feminist communist who took her own life in exile in Canada in the summer of 2020. In the af... Read More about Mourning Sarah Hegazi: Grief and the Cultivation of Queer Arabness.

Community Organizing and the Limits of Participatory Democracy in Lebanon (2022)
Book Chapter
Chamas, S. (2022). Community Organizing and the Limits of Participatory Democracy in Lebanon. In S. Haugbolle, & M. LeVine (Eds.), Altered States: The Remaking of the Political in the Arab World. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/b22870-3

This chapter draws on two years of fieldwork with an activist-initiated community group in the East Beirut neighborhood of Mar Mikhael, a locale suffering the consequences of an aggressive process of gentrification. I argue that gentrification has se... Read More about Community Organizing and the Limits of Participatory Democracy in Lebanon.

"We have to separate so we can be together again": Eritrean mothers’ gendered racialisation and family separation within the Israeli and UK asylum regimes (2022)
Journal Article
Lijnders, L. (2023). "We have to separate so we can be together again": Eritrean mothers’ gendered racialisation and family separation within the Israeli and UK asylum regimes. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 46(2), 338-357. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2022.2099748

This article explores how two asylum-seeking women from Eritrea attempt to secure safety and legal status for their children – born and unborn – and themselves by leaving them behind in the settler colonial state of Israel and taking on forged Ethiop... Read More about "We have to separate so we can be together again": Eritrean mothers’ gendered racialisation and family separation within the Israeli and UK asylum regimes.

Ascriptions of Migration: Racism, Migratism and Brexit (2022)
Journal Article
Tudor, A. (2023). Ascriptions of Migration: Racism, Migratism and Brexit. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 26(2), 230-248. https://doi.org/10.1177/13675494221101642

This article offers an analysis of scholarly attempts to make sense of the nexus of race and migration in Brexit-era UK discourse. To illustrate my arguments that intend to challenge and extend existing scholarship, I discuss exemplary snapshots from... Read More about Ascriptions of Migration: Racism, Migratism and Brexit.

States of Precarity and Pains of Utopic Pedagogy: Methodologies of Hope in Times of Crises (2022)
Journal Article
Khan, A. (2022). States of Precarity and Pains of Utopic Pedagogy: Methodologies of Hope in Times of Crises. Feminist Formations, 34(1), 318-338. https://doi.org/10.1353/ff.2022.0013

Drawing on personal teaching experience, this article considers the potentiality and pains of a pedagogic strategy that practises what José Esteban Muñoz calls a "methodology of hope" (2009). How can educators, particularly those located in the "enli... Read More about States of Precarity and Pains of Utopic Pedagogy: Methodologies of Hope in Times of Crises.

Counter Terrorism and the Normalisation of Violence: a Feminist Genealogy of Anglo/Egyptian Pre-criminal Practices (2022)
Thesis
Finden, A. Counter Terrorism and the Normalisation of Violence: a Feminist Genealogy of Anglo/Egyptian Pre-criminal Practices. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis expands on and understandings of the ‘pre-criminal space’ – a pre-emptive form of countering terrorism that sets up different treatment for those suspected of terrorism – by situating it within a historical context. This thesis makes two,... Read More about Counter Terrorism and the Normalisation of Violence: a Feminist Genealogy of Anglo/Egyptian Pre-criminal Practices.

Productively Queer: An Ethnography of the "Business Case" for LGBTQI Diversity and Inclusion in India (2022)
Thesis
Aaberg, L. Productively Queer: An Ethnography of the "Business Case" for LGBTQI Diversity and Inclusion in India. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Convinced there is economic value to extract from LGBTQI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex) people and culture, corporate India has increasingly invested resources in practices of what proponents call “diversity and inclusion”... Read More about Productively Queer: An Ethnography of the "Business Case" for LGBTQI Diversity and Inclusion in India.

On The Fraught Politics of Becoming: A Queer Feminist Analysis of Queer Muslim Subjectivation (2022)
Thesis
Khan, A. On The Fraught Politics of Becoming: A Queer Feminist Analysis of Queer Muslim Subjectivation. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis critically examines the production of the ‘queer Muslim’ subject in contemporary Britain. It asks, how and why does the queer Muslim subject gain relevancy in particular political and historical convergences? To explore this question, it... Read More about On The Fraught Politics of Becoming: A Queer Feminist Analysis of Queer Muslim Subjectivation.

Lil Watan: Queer Patriotism in Chauvinistic Lebanon (2021)
Journal Article
Chamas, S. (2023). Lil Watan: Queer Patriotism in Chauvinistic Lebanon. Sexualities, 26(1/2), 230-251. https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607211047523

There exists a robust literature on the impact of the sexualisation of the war on terror as an imperial endeavour on both queer and non-queer subjects in the Middle East. This article explores the consequences for LGBT activism of the localisation of... Read More about Lil Watan: Queer Patriotism in Chauvinistic Lebanon.