New Director
Professor S. Sayyid is the newly appointed Director of the Muslim Non Muslim Centre. The Muslim Non Muslim Centre falls under the leadership of Professor Pal Ahluwalia, Pro-Vice Chancellor: Education Arts and Social Sciences at UniSA and also UNESCO Chair in Transnational Diasporas and Reconciliation Studies.
Research Interests
Professor Sayyid's research interests are threefold.
- Exploration of ethnicity and racism.
- Examining the relationship between culture and politics.
- Interested in postcolonial political studies, and looks at the way in which the analysis of postcolonial conditions inform and affect so-called 'mainstream' political and social processes and structures.
Teaching
Teaching interests are racism, postcolonalism, critical theory and "political Islam".
PhD Supervision
Professor Sayyid is keen to supervise research students interested in ontological analysis rather than ontic studies, that is, to think how entities come into being. Able to also supervise research in topics that relate to questions of coloniality, formations of racism and what can be called, not unproblematically, political Islam.
Key Publications
Books
Sayyid, S. (2003) A Fundamental Fear: Eurocentrism and the Emergence of Islamism. Zed Books Ltd.
Chapters in Books
Sayyid, S. (2006) 'Introduction: BrAsians: Postcolonial People, Ironic
Citizens', In: Sayyid. S (co-editor), A Postcolonial People: South Asians in
Britain, Hurst.
Sayyid, S. (2000) 'Bad Faith: Anti-Essentialism and Universalism' In: Avtar
Brah and Annie. E. Coombes (eds.), Hybridity and its Discontents, Routledge.
Journal Articles
Sayyid, S. Islam(ism), (Winter, 2007) Eurocentrism and World Order, Defence
Studies, (7) 3.
Sayyid, S. (2005) 'Mirror, Mirror, Western Democrats, Oriental Despots?'
Ethnicities (5) 1.