Centre for Gender Studies

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Roles
Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies
Department
Centre for Gender Studies
Qualifications
MA (New York University), PhD (University of Oxford)
Building
Russell Square: College Buildings
Office
C424
Email address
sc118@soas.ac.uk

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Sophie Chamas's research sits at the intersection of feminist and queer political theory, Middle East studies, social movement studies, and cultural studies. Overall, their work explores the life, death, and afterlife of the radical political imagination in the Middle East and its diaspora.

They have written about the evolving nature of queerphobia as a means of authorising state power in the Middle East; queer Arab re-imaginings of both queerness and Arabness and the potentiality of their dialectical relationship; the effects of ghosts and hauntings from bygone moments of political possibility on the present and future of Middle East-related social movements; and the role that affect and sociality play in the reproduction of social movements in the region and its diaspora.

All of their research is informed by what anthropologist Hirokazu Miyazaki calls 'hope as method' (2004) – a dedication to exploring what is not yet rather than what has already become.

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Lina Ashour
Tanvi Kanchan Social media and queer and trans women in India: The possibilities and limitations of a radical queer politics of liberation

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Email
sc118@soas.ac.uk

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