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Gurchathen Sanghera

Lecturer

Room: 203 Arts Builing, The Scores

Office Hours Friday 10am - 12 noon (or by appointment)

Tel: 01334-461932

Email: gss10@st-andrews.ac.uk

Teaching

Honours

IR3032:  Globalisation and Its Disjunctures

IR4532:  The Cultural Politics of Human Rights

M.Litt

IR5725:  Globalisation and the South

I also contribute to IR5151 (Issues in Peace and Conflict) and first (Globalisation and Resistance) and second year (Structural Violence) modules

Research

My current research trajectories are: 

International relations and UN Peace Support Operations: international relations theory; UN peacekeeping; peace and conflict resolution; global institutions and the nébuleuse (United Nations, World Bank, IMF, WTO); North-South relations; the global political economy; the politics of HIV/AIDS; and international human rights. 

 

The ‘politics’ of race and ethnicity in contemporary Britain, particularly post- 9/11 and 7/7: the theory and politics of racism, racial equality, multiculturalism and secularism; ethnic identities, national identities and the 'second generation'; the politics of being Muslim in the West; social capital, cultural capital and mobility; and media constructions and depictions of minority ethnic and religious groups. 

 

Critical theory, human rights, and globalisation: the complex interplay between theory and practice; the politics of international human rights; critical theories (especially social constructionism and postcolonialism); power; social movements and resistance in the South.

 

Geographical sites of interest - UK, Liberia, Haiti and India

Articles

  • 2012 Forthcoming; G Sanghera, S Thapar-Bjorkert; '"Let's talk about...men": Young British Pakistani Muslim Women's Narratives about Co-Ethnic Men in Post-Colonial Bradford, UK'; Interventions - International Journal of Post-Colonial Studies
  • 2012 Forthcoming; G Sanghera, S Thapar-Bjorkert; 'The Imagination and Social Capital - Transnational Agency and Practices among Pakistani Muslims in the UK'; The Nordic Journal of Migration Research; 2(2)
  • 2010; S Thapar-Bjorkert, G Sanghera; 'Social Capital, Educational Aspirations and Young Pakistani Muslim Men and Women in Bradford, West Yorkshire'; Sociological Review; 58(2)
  • 2010; S Thapar-Bjorkert, G Sanghera; 'Building Social Capital and Education: The Experiences of Pakistani Muslims in the UK'; International Journal of Social Inquiry; 3(2)
  • 2009; M Henry, P Higate, G Sanghera; 'Power and Positionality: The Politics of Peacekeeping Research'; International Peacekeeping; 16(4)
  • 2009; G Sanghera; 'Travail et droits des enfants en Inde: lutte des ONG locales sur deux fronts'; Alternatives Sud; XVI(1)
  • 2008; G Sanghera; 'The "Politics" of Children's Rights and Child Labour in India: A Social Constructionist Perspective'; International Journal of Human Rights; 12(2):213-230
  • 2008; C Dwyer, B Shah, G Sanghera; '"From Cricket Lover to Terrorist" - Challenging Representations of Young British Muslims'; Gender, Place and Culture; 15(2)
  • 2008; G Sanghera, S Thapar-Bjorkert; 'Methodological Dilemmas: Gatekeepers and Positionality in Bradford'; Ethnic and Racial Studies; 31(3):543-562; Full text via DOI; More info

Book Chapters

  • 2011; C Dwyer, T Modood, G Sanghera, B Shah, S Thapar-Bjorkert; 'Educational Achievement and Career Aspiration for Young British Pakistanis'; Global Migration, Ethnicity and Britishness; T Modood and J Salt (eds); Palgrave, Basingstoke; 177-204.
  • 2007; G Sanghera, S Thapar-Bjorkert; '"Because I am Pakistani...and I am Muslim...I am Political" - Gendering Political Radicalism: Young Femininities in Bradford'; Islamic political radicalism: a European perspective; T Abbas (ed); Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, UK; 173-191

Reports

  • 2007; G Sanghera, S Thapar-Bjorkert; 'Political Radicalism in Bradford, UK'; Chatham House and ESRC, ISP/NSC Briefing Paper 07/01

Working Papers

  • 2008; G Sanghera, M Henry, P Higate; 'Peacekeepers as New Men? Security and Masculinity in the United Nations Mission in Liberia'; University of Bristol Working Paper 03-08; University of Bristol.

Administration

  • Senior Honours Adviser

Affiliations

  • British Association for South Asian Studies
  • Centre for Education for Racial Equality in Scotland - http://www.ceres.education.ed.ac.uk/

Current Research Students

  • Arthur Bernhoff (joint with Dr. McCallum)
  • Jason Gorey
  • Babtunde Afolabi

 

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