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Avtar Brah teaches at Birkbeck Avtar Brah is a Ugandan-British sociologist. She is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Birkbeck, University of London, and a pioneer of diaspora studies.

Avtar Brah. Avtar Brah 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 in recognition of her research.

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Cartographies of Diaspora maps theoretical and political shifts in approaches to questions of ‘difference’ and ‘diversity’ by studying changes in gendered and racialised discourses and state practices over the last half-century. It uses both theoretical material and empirical research to record cultural and political responses.

Avtar Brah, 'Activism, imagination This interview explores the intellectual contours of Stuart Hall's work through the insights of Professor Avtar Brah, Emerita, Birkbeck College, whose feminist post-colonial voice has shaped generations of scholarship on diaspora thinking, achieving public intellectual status.

On Studocu you find all In this book of essays and interviews, Brah’s identity as an East African Asian – she was born in Punjab, India, and grew up in Uganda – is fundamental to her writing and research on decoloniality, anti-racist feminism and intersectionality.

Avtar Brah has named Yet, as both Clifford and sociologist Avtar Brah emphasize, the concept of dias-pora is not limited to a historical experience.

London: Lawrence, 1990. 207-21. Avtar Brah 4 Abstract f Using, as a point of departure, Tim Lott's recent autobiography where he attempts to make sense of his mother's suicide of through a reconstruction of his family genealogy, this article tries to map the production of gendered, classed, and racial- ized subjects and subjectivity in west London.

Abstract. Does diaspora imply a Brah A. () Inter-Generational and Inter-Ethnic Perceptions: A Comparative Study of English and Asian Adolescents and Their Parents in Southall, PhD thesis, University of Bristol. Google Scholar Brah A. () ‘Journey to Nairobi’ in Grewal S. et al. () editors, Charting the Journey: Writings by Black and Third World Women, London.