Nira Yuval-Davis - University of East London
Dr. Nira Yuval-Davis is a professor and post-graduate leader of Gender, Sexualities and Ethnic Studies at the University of East London. She is the current president of the research committee 05 on Ethnic, Race and Minority Relations of the International Sociological Association. She is a founder member of Women Against Fundamentalisms and the international research network on Women in Militarized Conflict Zones. She has written extensively on intersectionality, nationalism, racism, citizenship, migration and gender relations in Britain, Europe, Israel and other Settler Societies.
Among her many books are
Woman-Nation-State (Macmillan, 1989);
Racialized Boundaries (Routledge 1992);
Unsettling Settler Societies (Sage, 1995);
Women, Citizenship and Difference (Zed Books, 1999);
Warning Signs of Fundamentalisms (WLUML, 2004) and
The Situated Politics of Belonging (Sage 2006). Her book
Gender and Nation (Sage, 1997) has been translated into seven different languages.
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