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Avtar Brah
(Elected 2009)
Avtar Brah recently retired as Professor of Sociology at Birkbeck as a specialist in race, gender and ethnic identity issues. She was awarded an MBE in 2001 in recognition of her research.
Her books include Cartographies of Diaspora: Contesting Identities; Hybridity and Its Discontents: Politics, Science, Culture (edited with Annie Coombes); Thinking Identities: Racism, Ethnicity and Culture and Global Futures: Migration, Environment and Globalization (both edited with Mary Hickman and Mairtin Mac an Ghail).
By addressing questions of culture, identity and politics, Cartographies of Diaspora throws new light on discussions about ‘difference’ and ‘diversity’, informed by feminism and post-structuralism.
It examines these themes by exploring the intersections of race, gender, class, sexuality, ethnicity, generation and nationalism in different discourses, practices and political contexts.
The work maps the emergence of ‘Asian’ as a racialised c