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Dr Camila Bassi
BSc (Hons), PGCE, DPhil
Phone 0114 225 4738
Email c.bassi@shu.ac.uk
Dr Camila Bassi graduated from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1997 with a first-class honours degree in geography and was awarded a DPhil from the University of Sheffield in 2003.
Her ESRC-funded PhD was in the field of social and political geography, more specifically, it explored the interrelationships of 'racial', ethnic and sexual identities as linked to commercial space and political economy.
Research interests
- the relationship of minority culture to urban political economy
- the competing histories of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict
Papers
Bassi, C. (forthcoming) 'Shanghai Goes West': Reflections on the city's gay political economy. In Hines, S and Taylor, Y (eds.) Sexualities: Past Reflections, Future Directions, Palgrave Macmillan
Bassi, C. (2010) 'It's new but not that new': on the continued use of old Marx', Feminist Legal Studies, 18(1), 69-76
Bassi, C. (2010) 'The anti-imperialism of fools': A cautionary story on the revolutionary left vanguard of England's post-9/11 anti-war movement (PDF from ACME Journal website), ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, 9(2), 113-137.
Bassi, C. (2008) 'The precarious and contradictory moments of existence for an emergent British Asian gay culture'. In Dwyer, C. and Bressey, C. (eds.) New Geographies of Race and Racism, Ashgate Publications. 209-222.
Bassi, C. (2006) 'Riding the Dialectical Waves of Gay Political Economy: A Story from Birmingham's Commercial Gay Scene', Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography 38(2), 213-235.
Papers in preparation
Bassi, C. A revived Marxist narrative on the birth pangs of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict
Book reviews
Bassi, C (2011) 'The counter-counterinsurgency manual: Or, notes on a demilitarizing American society' edited by Network of Concerned Anthropologists. Anthropological Forum 21(1), 77-78
Bassi, C. (2008) 'Book Reviews: Risky pleasures? Club cultures and feminine identities by Fiona Hutton', Gender, Place and Culture, 15(4), 445-455.
Bassi, C. (2006) 'Book Reviews: Space Invaders: Race, gender and bodies out of place by Nirmal Puwar', Gender, Place and Culture, 13(3), 317-328.
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