Dr Delwar Hussain
Job Title
Lecturer, School of Social and Political Sciences
Profile
Delwar Hussain is a social anthropologist specialising in the history, politics and anthropology of South Asia, as well as issues around religion, gender, cities, sexuality and in/tolerance.
Delwar is currently developing a new research project which will find him working for the first time in continental Europe. It explores the contemporary significance of Al Andalus, the 800 year of medieval Islamic Caliphate of Iberia, and asks how and why the history of Jews, Christians and Muslims living, working and discovering together is silenced from contemporary discourses of Europe, European and indeed Western values. Through ethnographic research, archival research and critiquing of intellectual history he aims to rectify this discrepancy.
Research interests
Ethnography, Gender and Sexuality, Borderlands, Bangladesh, Fences, South Asia, Modernisation, Decolonisation, War on terror, Political Islam, Religious Identity, labour, religion, LGBT, Spain, history, Pakistan, India