Dr Yasmeen Narayan

Lecturer in Sociology and Cultural Studies

Teaching and Research interests

Yasmeen Narayan has teaching and research interests in the areas of Caribbean creolisation; histories of ‘race’ and racism; racialisation and postcoloniality; sexualisation; ‘racial science’, ‘beauty’ and popular culture; contemporary political communities, urban cultures and social identities; cultural politics and ethnography. She is currently completing a manuscript on racialisation and racism in postcolonial London.

Yasmeen Narayan convenes the MA Ethnicity, Globalisation, Culture; MSc Ethnicity, Migration, Policy and BSc Social Science programmes.  She teaches the modules Foundations: Key concepts in the Study of ‘race’ and ethnicity; Culture, Community, Identity and contributes to the core module Race, Politics, Policy. She co-convenes the Research Methods module and supervises dissertation students for the MA Ethnicity, Globalisation, Culture and MSc Ethnicity, Migration, Policy programmes. She currently supervises PhD students with interests in ‘race’ and religion and contemporary political communities.

She is a member of the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research and the Birkbeck Institute for Gender and Sexuality.

Recent publications

Narayan, Y. (2009) Review of ‘Bacchanalian Sentiments: Musical Experiences and Political Counterpoints in Trinidad’ by Kevin K. Birth, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Volume 32/Number 2, February 2009, 388-389

Narayan, Y.(2009) ‘On postcolonial authority, Caribbeanness, reiteration and political community’ Cultural Studies, Vol. 23/Number 4, 605-623