Goldsmiths - University of London

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Dr Kalbir Shukra BA PhD

Position held:
Lecturer

Phone:
+44 (0)20 7919 7825

Email:
k.shukra (@gold.ac.uk)

Kalbir is a lecturer in Community and Youth Work in the Department of Professional and Community Education (PACE). Her research interests are concerned with the development of black politics in contemporary Britain.

Kalbir was part of the research teams for the ESRC project Democratic Governance and Ethnic Minority Participation, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation project 'Fluid Communities, Solid Structures' and The Camberwell Advocacy Project.

Selected publications

  • 'From anti-oppressive practice to community cohesion' a journal article by Kalbir Shukra published in 'Youth and Policy', no. 100, summer/autumn 2008, pp. 231-239
  • ‘The Changing Terrain of Multi-culture: from anti-oppression to community cohesion’, Concept: The Community Education Journal
  • ‘Race, social cohesion and the changing politics of citizenship’ London Review of Education, Volume 2, Issue 3 November 2004 , pages 187 – 195 (with Les Back,  Michael Keith, Azra Khan and John Solomos)
  • ‘Black politics and the web of joined-up governance: compromise, ethnic minority mobilization and the transitional public sphere’ Social Movement Studies, Volume 3, Number 1, April 2004 , pp. 31-50(20) (with Les Back, Azra Khan, Michael Keith and John Solomos)
  •  ‘New Labour's White Heart: Politics, Multiculturalism and the Return of Assimilation’ Political Quarterly Volume 73 Issue 4 17 Dec 2002, Pages 445 – 454 (with Les Back, Michael Keith, Azra Khan, and John Solomos)
  • 'The Return of Assimilationism: Race, Multiculturalism and New Labour' Sociological Research Online 2002, vol. 7, no. 2 (with Les Back, Michael Keith, Azra Khan and John Solomos)
  • 'A Nationwide Response to Racism’: towards a national 24 hour Emergency Helpline for victims of racist attacks and violence (with Steve Cross and Les Back)
  • No Ball Games Here’: The Hyde Sport Inquiry Report (with Ben Gidley, Alison Rooke and Debbie Humphrey)
  • The Camberwell Advocacy Support Project (with Ben Gidley, Karen Wells and Alison Rooke)
  • 'New Labour Debates and Dilemmas' in Race and British Electoral Politics (ed. S.Saggar) (UCL 1998)
  • The Changing Patterns of Black Politics in Britain (1998, Pluto Press)