Graduate level course, fall semester 2016/17
(co-taught together with Prof. Gökce Yurdakul)
and 2017/18
This seminar is concerned with how conflicts between religion and secularity (i.e., secular and religious discourses, norms, actors, and institutions) are shaped differently in differing socio-legal contexts in the Middle East, Europe and North America. Specifically, we will examine the way religion and secularity shape disputes and are shaped by disputes over “body politics” and “the margins of life”. We will explore the secular laws and religious disputes governing what is permissible to do to the body and who has the authority to decide (the religion, the mother, the public, the individual etc.) We will focus on current legal and social controversies that have erupted around the practices of male circumcision, organ donation, abortion, reproductive technologies and trans rights, and place these controversies in a theoretical framework of sociology of the body, biopolitics and (post)-secularism.
(co-taught together with Prof. Gökce Yurdakul)
and 2017/18
Body Politics and the Margins of Life: The Secular/Religious Tensions
This seminar is concerned with how conflicts between religion and secularity (i.e., secular and religious discourses, norms, actors, and institutions) are shaped differently in differing socio-legal contexts in the Middle East, Europe and North America. Specifically, we will examine the way religion and secularity shape disputes and are shaped by disputes over “body politics” and “the margins of life”. We will explore the secular laws and religious disputes governing what is permissible to do to the body and who has the authority to decide (the religion, the mother, the public, the individual etc.) We will focus on current legal and social controversies that have erupted around the practices of male circumcision, organ donation, abortion, reproductive technologies and trans rights, and place these controversies in a theoretical framework of sociology of the body, biopolitics and (post)-secularism.
Guest Lectures
“Health, Difference and Inequality”, MA History & Philosophy of Science, session on Reproductive (In)Justice, UCL, Department of Science and Technology Studies (2023)
“The Politics of Health and Medicine: Race, Gender, Nation”, MA Race, Ethnicity, and Postcolonial Studies, session on Race, Capital, Feminism, UCL, Centre for Multidisciplinary and Intercultural Inquiry (2023)
“Researching Race”, MA Race, Ethnicity, and Postcolonial Studies, co-taught session on Feminist and Abolitionist Ethnography, UCL, Centre for Multidisciplinary and Intercultural Inquiry (2023)
“Multidisciplinary Approaches to Gender Studies”, MA Gender, Society, and Representation, session on Decolonial Feminism, UCL, Centre for Multidisciplinary and Intercultural Inquiry (2022)
“Re:production. Queer-Feminist Perspectives on Reproduction and Racialization”, BA Gender Studies, session on Migration and Eugenics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies (2022)
“Race and Anti-Racism”, MA Social Sciences, student Q&A, article Borderlands of Reproduction, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institute for Social Sciences (2021)
“Health, Difference and Inequality”, MA History & Philosophy of Science, session on Reproductive (In)Justice, UCL, Department of Science and Technology Studies (2023)
“The Politics of Health and Medicine: Race, Gender, Nation”, MA Race, Ethnicity, and Postcolonial Studies, session on Race, Capital, Feminism, UCL, Centre for Multidisciplinary and Intercultural Inquiry (2023)
“Researching Race”, MA Race, Ethnicity, and Postcolonial Studies, co-taught session on Feminist and Abolitionist Ethnography, UCL, Centre for Multidisciplinary and Intercultural Inquiry (2023)
“Multidisciplinary Approaches to Gender Studies”, MA Gender, Society, and Representation, session on Decolonial Feminism, UCL, Centre for Multidisciplinary and Intercultural Inquiry (2022)
“Re:production. Queer-Feminist Perspectives on Reproduction and Racialization”, BA Gender Studies, session on Migration and Eugenics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies (2022)
“Race and Anti-Racism”, MA Social Sciences, student Q&A, article Borderlands of Reproduction, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institute for Social Sciences (2021)