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Papers by Shabana Mir
Review of Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Mulki Al-Sharmani, and Jana Rumminger, eds., Men in Charge?: Rethinking Authority in Muslim Legal Tradition,
SCTIW Review , 2017
Book Review, "Pious Fashion" by Liz Bucar
Gender and Society , 2018
Comparative Education: the dialectic of the global and the local, 2013
Chapter published in "Comparative Education: the dialectic of the global and the local" (2013). L... more Chapter published in "Comparative Education: the dialectic of the global and the local" (2013). Little did they know, when local Tunisian authorities tried to prevent a youth from selling produce to make a living, that Mohamed Bouazizi, holder of a computer science degree, would set himself afire in desperation, or that his self-immolation would speak to millions of Tunisians and other Arabs, spurring global change that would spread across the MENA region and beyond. Thousands of protesters marched in the streets in Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Sudan, and Yemen, shouting slogans against authoritarian governments, poverty, and high unemployment. With its "youth bulge," the MENA region, long plagued by autocratic regimes and centralized economies, has high unemployment, over 60% of which falls to youth in Egypt, Syria and Qatar (The World Bank Group, 2011). The continuing population growth in this region holds the potential for either a human development debacle of extraordinary proportions or "an unprecedented window of opportunity" (Ezzine, 2011) for reform, change and productivity, but postsecondary education/training and employment are decisive factors in this matter.
The Routledge International Handbook of Islamophobia, 2019
Where is my female-friendly mosque?
There Has Never Been an America Without Muslims
Book Review of Amir Hussain's "Muslims and the Making of America"
A Need For Private Spaces
Educating the Muslims of America, 2009
Cultural Anthropology Looks at Higher Education
Levinson/A Companion to the Anthropology of Education, 2011
446 WESLEY SHUMAR AND SHABANA MIR upon the unlikely theoretical trilogy of Foucault–Lacan–Derrida... more 446 WESLEY SHUMAR AND SHABANA MIR upon the unlikely theoretical trilogy of Foucault–Lacan–Derrida, or what Shumar (2008) has elsewhere called poststructuralism/2, we are still very much shaped by our encounter with Althusserian theory.) We suggest that there ...
Let Them Be Normal and Date
Undergraduate Social Life and Identity, 2014
(Self) Surveillance, Passing, Resistance: The Americanness of Muslim Undergraduate Women After 9/11/01
PsycEXTRA Dataset, 2010
As I was recently reminded after listening to an imam repeatedly reject ISIS on Vermont Public Ra... more As I was recently reminded after listening to an imam repeatedly reject ISIS on Vermont Public Radio, the 'long shadow' cast upon the religion by the events of 9/11 and subsequent acts of terror remain scarlet letters that must be expunged from the chests of each individual Muslim. For the past 15 years, Muslims as a whole have been at the forefront of a discussion of 'modernity' in newspapers, television shows, and digital news feeds; in a sense, Islam has been subject to a sort of asynchronous 'digital labor' that serves to construct the identities of Muslims in absentia. Within such an environment, Muslim Americans have continued to participate as productive members of society, "with 40 percent holding a college degree or higher, compared to 29 percent among the general American public" (Mir, 2014, p. 3). Indeed, as Shabana Mir demonstrates in Muslim American Women on Campus, even within the most pluralistic spaces, Muslims are negatively stereotyped, marginalized, and essentialized; in the same spaces, however, Muslims work to positively selfdefine, seek out compromise, and sensitively negotiate infringements on personal autonomy.
Building on an ethnographic study of American Muslim undergraduate women at two universities in W... more Building on an ethnographic study of American Muslim undergraduate women at two universities in Washington, D.C., I examine undergraduate Muslim women’s construction of gendered discourses. Stereotypes feed into both majority and minority constructions of Muslim women’s gendered identities. I highlight Muslim women’s resistance to and adoption of such stereotypes as they construct various modalities of interaction with men on cam- pus. [higher education, gender, Muslim women, ethnography, sexuality]
Book review of "Muslim American Women on Campus" in 'The Washington Post'
Book Review of "Muslim American Women on Campus"
[Book Review: All American Yemeni Girls: Being Muslim in a Public School]
Journal of Religion, 2007
Review of Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Mulki Al-Sharmani, and Jana Rumminger, eds., Men in Charge?: Rethinking Authority in Muslim Legal Tradition,
SCTIW Review , 2017
Book Review, "Pious Fashion" by Liz Bucar
Gender and Society , 2018
Comparative Education: the dialectic of the global and the local, 2013
Chapter published in "Comparative Education: the dialectic of the global and the local" (2013). L... more Chapter published in "Comparative Education: the dialectic of the global and the local" (2013). Little did they know, when local Tunisian authorities tried to prevent a youth from selling produce to make a living, that Mohamed Bouazizi, holder of a computer science degree, would set himself afire in desperation, or that his self-immolation would speak to millions of Tunisians and other Arabs, spurring global change that would spread across the MENA region and beyond. Thousands of protesters marched in the streets in Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Sudan, and Yemen, shouting slogans against authoritarian governments, poverty, and high unemployment. With its "youth bulge," the MENA region, long plagued by autocratic regimes and centralized economies, has high unemployment, over 60% of which falls to youth in Egypt, Syria and Qatar (The World Bank Group, 2011). The continuing population growth in this region holds the potential for either a human development debacle of extraordinary proportions or "an unprecedented window of opportunity" (Ezzine, 2011) for reform, change and productivity, but postsecondary education/training and employment are decisive factors in this matter.
The Routledge International Handbook of Islamophobia, 2019
Where is my female-friendly mosque?
There Has Never Been an America Without Muslims
Book Review of Amir Hussain's "Muslims and the Making of America"
A Need For Private Spaces
Educating the Muslims of America, 2009
Cultural Anthropology Looks at Higher Education
Levinson/A Companion to the Anthropology of Education, 2011
446 WESLEY SHUMAR AND SHABANA MIR upon the unlikely theoretical trilogy of Foucault–Lacan–Derrida... more 446 WESLEY SHUMAR AND SHABANA MIR upon the unlikely theoretical trilogy of Foucault–Lacan–Derrida, or what Shumar (2008) has elsewhere called poststructuralism/2, we are still very much shaped by our encounter with Althusserian theory.) We suggest that there ...
Let Them Be Normal and Date
Undergraduate Social Life and Identity, 2014
(Self) Surveillance, Passing, Resistance: The Americanness of Muslim Undergraduate Women After 9/11/01
PsycEXTRA Dataset, 2010
As I was recently reminded after listening to an imam repeatedly reject ISIS on Vermont Public Ra... more As I was recently reminded after listening to an imam repeatedly reject ISIS on Vermont Public Radio, the 'long shadow' cast upon the religion by the events of 9/11 and subsequent acts of terror remain scarlet letters that must be expunged from the chests of each individual Muslim. For the past 15 years, Muslims as a whole have been at the forefront of a discussion of 'modernity' in newspapers, television shows, and digital news feeds; in a sense, Islam has been subject to a sort of asynchronous 'digital labor' that serves to construct the identities of Muslims in absentia. Within such an environment, Muslim Americans have continued to participate as productive members of society, "with 40 percent holding a college degree or higher, compared to 29 percent among the general American public" (Mir, 2014, p. 3). Indeed, as Shabana Mir demonstrates in Muslim American Women on Campus, even within the most pluralistic spaces, Muslims are negatively stereotyped, marginalized, and essentialized; in the same spaces, however, Muslims work to positively selfdefine, seek out compromise, and sensitively negotiate infringements on personal autonomy.
Building on an ethnographic study of American Muslim undergraduate women at two universities in W... more Building on an ethnographic study of American Muslim undergraduate women at two universities in Washington, D.C., I examine undergraduate Muslim women’s construction of gendered discourses. Stereotypes feed into both majority and minority constructions of Muslim women’s gendered identities. I highlight Muslim women’s resistance to and adoption of such stereotypes as they construct various modalities of interaction with men on cam- pus. [higher education, gender, Muslim women, ethnography, sexuality]
Book review of "Muslim American Women on Campus" in 'The Washington Post'
Book Review of "Muslim American Women on Campus"
[Book Review: All American Yemeni Girls: Being Muslim in a Public School]
Journal of Religion, 2007
Deploying Critical Distance in a Religious Academic Context
Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion Blog , 2017
Review of public lecture at the University of Illinois
My interview at New Books in Islamic Studies
Book Review in "Choice" (American Library Association)
Shabana Mir's blog: Koonj the Crane
Book Review of Religious Diversity and Children's Literature
Religion & Education , 2012
Review of 'Lone Star Muslims' by Ahmed Afzal
American Anthropologist, 2016
Ethnic & Racial Studies, 2015
Mobilizing Piety: Islam and feminism in Indonesia, by Rachel Rinaldo, Oxford, Oxford University P... more Mobilizing Piety: Islam and feminism in Indonesia, by Rachel Rinaldo, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2013, 272 pp., £64 (hardback), 978-0-19-994810-9. Rachel Rinaldo's book is a good example of how to study Muslim women and to fall prey neither to the foregone conclusions of Orientalist social science regarding Islam, nor to traditionalist Muslim apologetics.
Book Review of "Sufis, Salafis, and Islamists" by Sadek Hamid
Reading Religion, 2019
TV interview, Defence & Diplomacy
Defence and Diplomacy (PTV) , 2015
Interview on Radio Islam (2015)
Radio Islam, 2015
Challenges of inclusion on campus
Radio Islam, 2017
The theater of faculty diversification
Roundhouse Radio, 2017
Interview with Shabana Mir at Radio Islam
Radio Islam , 2018
Podcast interview with Shabana Mir, Network ReOrient
Network ReOrient , 2019