Dr Shaira Vadasaria

Shaira Vadasaria is a Lecturer in Race and Decolonial Studies in the Department of Sociology. Her research and teaching draws on interdisciplinary thought attentive to race, law and social regulation in the broader context of settler colonial nation building. Methodologically, Shaira’s research is inspired by the quotidian and ambivalent practices through which displaced and dispossessed communities make claims to life and decoloniality amidst social death.

She has published in edited book collections and journals that include: At the Limits of Justice: Women of Colour Theorize Terror, eds. Suvendrini Perera and Sherene H. Razack; Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture; Critical Studies on Security and most recently Oñati Socio-Legal Studies (see ‘1948 to 1951: The racial politics of humanitarianism and return in Palestine’).

Her current book project tends to the representational lives of return in and to Palestine which she read across law, aesthetics, sensory politics and land-based sovereignty movements.