College of Humanities and Social Sciences CHSS

Overview

The cluster on Gender, Knowledge, and Power brings together interdisciplinary researchers and scholars from across CHSS who are committed in their academic research and pedagogies to social justice, social progress, and sustainability. The cluster builds on and supports the research and training taking place across the College through postgraduate programs in Translation and Interpreting; Women, Society, and Development; Digital Humanities; and Middle East Studies. The three themes are tied together by an investment in interventions and explorations of gendered concepts and practices of citizenship, knowledge production, and power, which include:

Women, Society, and Work
Women, Knowledge, and Cross-Cultural Production
Women, Migration and Dis/placement

Cluster Members

Ph.D. Students

Samar Greige

PhD in Humanities and Social Sciences

College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hamad bin Khalifa University
MaHao

PhD in Humanities and Social Sciences

College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hamad bin Khalifa University

Research Themes

Women, Society and Work

Focus: AI, Progressive Education, Social Progress, Sustainability

Objective

Map societal changes and transformations.
Examine conditions of labor, power differentials, and inequalities.
Complicate binaries of productive and reproductive labor, waged/unwaged labor.
Develop analyses of health, reproduction, and human rights.

Outcomes

Dissemination of research and advising on policy through the recently established Women, Knowledge, and Advocacy Center.
Support Qatari Women’s Leadership Project.
Collaborate with national and regional organizations such as DIFI, ABAAD, KAFA, TAKATOAT, Tal3aat.

Women, Knowledge and Cross-Cultural Production

Focus: Progressive Education, Social Progress, Sustainability

Objective

Think about production of knowledge and its trans/national circuitries.
Examine the intersections between the politics of representation and translation.
Provide critical discourse and narrative analyses.
Focus on multiple genres and modalities of production in non-virtual and virtual worlds.
Engage with questions of agency, voice, and representations.

Outcomes

Develop graduate-level courses that center national and regional forms of cultural production, including literary, digital, and visual arts.
Collaborate with Qatar Museums and Qatar.
Quadrennial, Writers in Residence Program (hosting and featuring artists).
Develop and interrogate corpora.
Disseminate research in non-conventional venues, including art galleries, etc.

Women, Migration and Dis/Placement

Focus: Progressive Education, Social Progress, Sustainability

Objective

Study dynamics of migration, forced movement, and displacement.
Analyze impacts of war and multiple, unfolding crises.
Examine state power, intrapersonal and interpersonal forms of violence, and politics of rights.
Map international aid agencies and networks for refugee support.
Explore connections between experiences of refugees and mental health.

Outcomes

Support Qatar Foundation projects that are related to refugees and displaced persons.
Policy, advocacy, and support to migrant communities.
Advise relevant and developmental practitioners.

Projects

Interpreters’ narratives of the Covid-19 pandemic
Popular Culture and Politics in Times of Revolution and Counter-revolution: The Case of Egypt
Innovations in the Fiction and Cinema of Arab Women Writers and Filmmakers at Home and Abroad
Unfamiliar Families: Migration, Kinship and Transnational Solidarity
Gender and Settler Colonialism: Palestinian Women’s Oral and Embodied Histories in the Naqab
Popular Culture and Politics in Times of Revolution and Counter-revolution: The Case of Egypt
Innovations in the Fiction and Cinema of Arab Women Writers and Filmmakers at Home and Abroad

Publications

Boéri, J. (2022). Steering ethics toward social justice. Translation and Interpreting Studies, 18(1), 1–26.
Richter-Devroe, S (2018). Women’s Political Activism in Palestine: Peacebuilding, Resistance and Survival. University of Illinois Press
The Egyptian Coffeehouse: Culture, Politics and Urban Space, (I.B. Tauris, 2020)

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Research Cluster: Gender, Knowledge and Power

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Dr. Amal Al Malki

Dr. Julie Boeri

Dr. Hassan Hakimian

Dr. Carol Fadda

Dr. Dana M. Olwan

Dr. Sophie Richter-Devroe

Ph.D. Students

Samar Greige

MaHao

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Women, Society and Work

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Women, Knowledge and Cross-Cultural Production

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Women, Migration and Dis/Placement

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