Rita Dhamoon
Dr. Dhamoon is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria. She formerly held a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Victoria in 2007-2008. She also held a Grant Notley Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Alberta from 2005-2007.
Her research employs critical race feminist and intersectionality approaches. She has focused her research on Sikhs in Canada and the impact of colonialism on South Asian and Indigenous people. Her research interests fall into themes of identity, power, multiculturalism, gender and colonialism.
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| Institution: | University of Victoria |
| Fields of Expertise: | Canadian Politics Colonialism Critical Race Studies Indigenous Politics Memory Politics |
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| Email: | dhamoonr@uvic.ca |
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| Languages: | English |
| Publications: | A Cautionary Note on Reclaiming ‘Diasporicity’: Sikh Subjectivities and Colonial Perversions,” Sikh Formations, 2022, 18(3): 1-17. Racism as a Workload and Bargaining Issue. Socialist Studies 14: 1, n.p. 2020 Co-authored with Katy Pal Sian “Decolonizing Sikh Studies: A Feminist Manifesto,” Journal of World Philosophies 2020 vol. 5 no. 2. 43-60. "Relational Othering: Critiquing Dominance, Critiquing the Margins," Politics, Groups and Identities, 2019, 9(5): 873-892. |
