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About Nira Yuval-Davis

Nira Yuval-Davis the Director of the Research Centre on Migration, Refugees and Belonging (CMRB) at the University of East London, is an Israeli dissident and a founder member of Women Against Fundamentalism and Women In Black, in London. Her latest book, The Politics of Belonging:Intersectional Contestations will be published by Sage November 2011.

Nira Yuval-Davis has been the President of the Research Committee 05 (on Racism, Nationalism and Ethnic Relations) of the International Sociological Association, , a member of the Sociology sub-panel of the RAE of 2008 and REF 2014 and an editor of the book series ‘the Politics of Intersectionality’ of Palgrave MacMillan. She is one of the founders of the international research network of Women In Militarized Conflict Zones.

Nira Yuval-Davis has written extensively on theoretical and empirical aspects of intersected nationalisms, racisms, fundamentalisms, citizenships, identities, belonging/s and gender relations in Britain & Europe, Israel and other Settler Societies. Among her written and edited books are Woman - Nation - State (Macmillan, 1989, with F. Anthias); Racialized Boundaries (Routledge, 1992, with F. Anthias); Refusing Holy Orderes (Virago, 1992 & WLUML, 2001 with G. Sahgal); Unsettling Settler Societies (Sage, 1995, with D. Stasiulis); Gender and Nation (1997, Sage); Women, Citizenship & Difference (Zed Books, 1999, with P. Werbner); Warning Signs of Fundamentalisms (WLUML, 2004, w. A. Imam) ; The Situated Politics of Belonging (Sage, 2006, with K. Kannabiran & U. Vieten); and the fortcoming monograph The Politics of Belonging: Intersected Contestations (Sage, November 2011) .

Articles by Nira Yuval-Davis

Tuesday 26th July

The dark side of democracy: autochthony and the radical right

Nira Yuval-Davis, 26 July 2011

Racialised and forced migrants are the spectre of the 'other' in the autochthonic dream of the 'pure' otherless universe which we must confront. This border-zone is our political as well as our analytical challenge, says Nira Yuval Davis

Wednesday 24th October

The binary war

Nira Yuval-Davis, 24 October 2001

The meaning of the war is often presented in terms of a “clash of civilisations”. But this radical polarisation of the world is an example of the “binary” view that only increases conflict. Even the alternative UN formulation of a “dialogue among civilisations” reinforces the view that civilisations are separate and internally homogenous. What we need is a “dialogical civilisation” which seeks also the shared elements in our value systems.