Amina Shareef
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I am Lecturer in Education. Gender, the War on Terror, anti-Muslim racism, racial violence, the hijab, and education
Broadly speaking, I research gender, the War on Terror, anti-Muslim racism, Muslim subjectivities, and education.
I joined the Department of Educational Studies in September 2023.
Academic qualifications
- PhD in Education, University of Cambridge, UK 2024
- MA in Curriculum and Instruction, Purdue University, USA 2013
Research interests
My research interests sit at the intersection of Critical Muslim Studies and Islamophobia Studies. I research the subjection of young Muslim women through counterextremism projects, anti-Muslim racism, racial violence on the street, and experiences of racism in schools. I am working towards building a tawhidic research paradigm. I draw on qualitative and youth participatory action research methods.
My research keywords include:
Subjection
Counterextremism
Racialisation
Anti-Muslim racism
War on Terror
Racial justice in education
anti-Muslim street violence
Hijab politics
Far Right
I am currently working on a book project, in collaboration with Dr. Tyler Denmead at the University of Cambridge, to examine what we are calling White educability--the notion that White people have a superior capacity to be educated and which draws on racial and colonial knowledge as it circulates in contemporary Britain in the context of the War on Terror.
Featured publications
Warping faith: Big Brands and Government Are Refashioning Muslim Identity. Byline Times.
https://bylinetimes.com/2020/09/04/warping-faith-big-brands-and-government-are-refashioning-muslim-identity/
Shareef, A. (2020). The Indirect Victims of the Christchurch Mosque Massacre. Byline Times.