Critical Multiculturalism’s response to diverse Islamic thought and practice
My friend Dr Ali-Reza Bhojani invited me to talk to his students at the Al-Mahdi Institute in Birmingham last October, so I wrote this paper and then forgot to post it. It develops the position I’ve advanced elsewhere, that I call ‘critical multiculturalism’ as a way of thinking about, and responding to, the various types […]
Critical Public Scholarship: on emotion and ‘race’
Before I decided to stop writing as an academic I agreed with my friends Karim Murji and Gargi Bhattacharyya to try and write something about political engagement in the sociology of ‘race’ for a special edition of Ethnic and Racial Studies. I wanted to say something about the emotional work that goes on when we enter […]
David Oluwale – was he a secular martyr?
417414_1_En_9_Chapter_OnlinePDF (publishers’ proof of my chapter on David Oluwale) I’m Secretary to the David Oluwale Memorial Association (DOMA) and I spend a lot of my time reminding all those who are interested of the fate of a man who stowed away on a ship leaving Lagos in 1949, and who was killed by two policemen […]
Diverse communities and the question of cohesion
Ages ago I was asked to write a chapter on diversity for a book on the Yorkshire and Humberside region put together by colleagues at Leeds Metropolitan University. I got tremendous help from Professor John Stillwell (Geography, Leeds University) who produced statistical maps for me at the drop of a hat. The chapter contains lots […]