Fields of Study
- Race, Ethnicity & Colonialism
Areas of Interest
- Citizenship Studies
- Critical Race Theory
- Black Studies
- Social, Cultural & Legal Theory
- Law and Humanities
Biography
Bahar Banaei is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology at York University. Her Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) funded work sits at the intersections of law, humanities, Critical Race Theory, Black studies, and critical citizenship studies. Her dissertation considers the relationships between liberalism, antiblackness, and citizenship, and explores how migrant justice advocacy toward citizenship rights often invokes conceptions of the human that originated in racial slavery. She is a member of the Collaborative for Racial Justice and was the 2023-2024 Graduate Fellow at the Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime, and Security. She is also a guest editor for and upcoming issue of South Atlantic Quarterly and the 2024 issue of Topia: Canada’s Journal of Cultural Studies. This special issue is dedicated to the 2023 Care and Cure conference which Bahar co-organized. Bahar holds a Master of Arts in Social and Political Thought from York University and an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto where she majored in Literature and Critical Theory and minored in Sociology and Diaspora Studies.
Selected publications
- Banaei, B., Teed, P., Falek, J., Fletcher, M., Garba, T., Sankar, A., (2024) "Introduction: Care and Cure." TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 49.
- Banaei, B. (2021). Irregular Citizenship, Immigration, and Deportation. By Peter Nyers. Routledge, 2018, pp. 172. Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees, 37(2), 170–172. https://doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.40955