On Developing a Muslim Women's Resistance Collective
Standing
Undergraduate
Type of Proposal
Oral Research Presentation
Challenges Theme
Open Challenge
Faculty Sponsor
Dr. Jane Ku
Proposal
This presentation explicates the findings from my doctoral research project entitled “Politics of Epistemological Resistance & Feminist Solidarity: On Canadian Muslim Women’s Collective Political Subjectivities Twenty Years after 9/11.†In this feminist community-based project, I brought together a group of Muslim women activists in Windsor-Essex to investigate how gendered Muslim subjects in Canada develop and articulate political subjectivities and collectives of resistance to anti-Muslim racism. My research questions are: Twenty years after 9/11, how do Muslim women understand and articulate their political subjectivities? What is the power of developing a feminist collective of resistance? As an innovative piece of research conducted at an unusual sociopolitical time, this research extends the body of existing literature on gender and anti-Muslim racism in Canada by not only considering the importance of collective-building to the work of women’s organizing around anti-Muslim racism but actually works to create and nurture that collective in order to embody the spirit, principles, and social change objectives deemed important to the Muslim women activists themselves.
Grand Challenges
Viable, Healthy and Safe Communities
On Developing a Muslim Women's Resistance Collective
This presentation explicates the findings from my doctoral research project entitled “Politics of Epistemological Resistance & Feminist Solidarity: On Canadian Muslim Women’s Collective Political Subjectivities Twenty Years after 9/11.†In this feminist community-based project, I brought together a group of Muslim women activists in Windsor-Essex to investigate how gendered Muslim subjects in Canada develop and articulate political subjectivities and collectives of resistance to anti-Muslim racism. My research questions are: Twenty years after 9/11, how do Muslim women understand and articulate their political subjectivities? What is the power of developing a feminist collective of resistance? As an innovative piece of research conducted at an unusual sociopolitical time, this research extends the body of existing literature on gender and anti-Muslim racism in Canada by not only considering the importance of collective-building to the work of women’s organizing around anti-Muslim racism but actually works to create and nurture that collective in order to embody the spirit, principles, and social change objectives deemed important to the Muslim women activists themselves.