Publications
Articles and Essays
“Dis/Orienting sociology towards a critical phenomenology whiteness”
In Candian Sociology Review
by Pedrom Nasiri
What does institutional whiteness do? What tools does critical phenomenology offer us to both conceptualise and challenge institutional whiteness in the academy? These are the questions that I explore in this short article, as a means to provide scholars with additional tools that may aid them in both thinking about and acting upon forms of institutional whiteness.
I begin this article with a short introduction to the critical phenomenology espoused by Sara Ahmed. From here, I orient the reader to several examples of how the method of critical phenomenology may be applied to the study of institutional whiteness. In the final section, I explore how moments of disorientation may serve as launching points to challenge institutional whiteness.
Book Chapters
Chapter 26: “Gender and Law”
The Routledge Handbook of Law and Society
by Pallavi Banerjee and Pedrom Nasiri
In this chapter, the authors approach the concept of gender and its relationship to law from the perspective of 'southern theory'. Working from this standpoint, they will introduce three themes: gendered contestation over land; the gendered politics of hunger; and the social analysis of terror and queer subjectivities. In an important collection of Aboriginal writings in Australia, called Our Land is Our Life, Marcia Langton argues that in the face of colonial violence, women's system of law and older women's ties to place were crucial to community survival. Carter argues that, as such, the duties of Indigenous women as kin-persons, wives, or mothers become incomprehensible under the settler-colonial system without reference to law and legal categories. The combination of a 'southern theory' perspective with an intersectional gender analysis reveals how law shapes land rights; controls access to food for women; and configures terror, especially in the interactions of the Global South with the Global North.
Peer-Reviewed Lesson Plans
Gender and Legal Consciousness
Gender & Society Pedagogy Project
by Pedrom Nasiri
This module helps instructors introduce students to the sub-field of legal consciousness studies. The provided readings will orient students to the study of gender and the law from an intersectional framework focusing on gender, race, and sexuality.