Dr Phoebe Kisubi Mbasalaki
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Email
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Location
6.324, Colchester Campus
Profile
Biography
Research Interests: Critical race, class, gender and sexuality; Decolonial thought and praxis; Creative activism; Arts-based practices and research; Sexual Reproductive Health; Sex work; Migration; Meaningful collaborations with NGOs and grassroot organisations.
Research and professional activities
Current research
Africa and African diaspora network on digital archive
This project stems from the construction of partnerships between the African Gender Institute (AGI) at the University of Cape Town in South Africa and the Interdisciplinary Center for African Descendent Research and Heritage (NIREMA) at Pontif铆cia Universidade Cat贸lica do Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, with the aim of promoting transcontinental dialogue in the field of Gender Studies focused on decolonization/decoloniality and freedom. The first part of the project (during 2021) is to make the scholarship of each continent accessible to the other through translation and online publishing. This entails the production of e-book series featuring a dialogue between two scholars, one from each continent, with a curated in-conversation introduction. The objective is to launch, through a live and recorded online platform, two volumes for 2021, the first focused on pioneering scholars and the second on contemporary work, with the aim to continue with the series in the following years. The second aspect of the project is to develop a digital archive of these and other textual and audio-visual resources that would allow scholars from each context to become more familiar with and engage scholarship, ideas, activism, art pedagogic tools and other outputs from the other context. The aim in doing this is to promote south-south collaboration, knowledge sharing and networking so to strengthen the connections amongst scholars, teachers, activists, artists and ideas in these two spaces.
Engaged Scholarship and Narratives of Change
The Engaged scholarship and narratives of change in comparative perspective project will investigate the co-operation between academy and society, labelled engaged scholarship, across three continents.
Engaged scholarship refers to transformative and critical forms of academic work having the ambition and the capacity to stimulate reflection that enables more inclusive practices in society and academia. This project aims at a more comprehensive and transformative understanding of how engaged scholarship can contribute to the societal inclusion of refugees, arguably the most urgent challenge of this decade. Its underlying assumption is that the social sciences have an important role in enlarging societal and academic imaginations by connecting local, historical, and analytical knowledge to enable an actual inclusion of disadvantaged groups.
Economies of care: locating migrant health care workers in the UK in times of crisis.
From the staged play, Lightstreams written by Dr Mary Mazzilli (extracts thereof) in combination with the co-I鈥檚 (myself) sociological work on race, gender and creative activism, we were able to elicit emotional-charged testimonies by interviewing 15 first generation migrant health-care workers and made contact with NHS managers and health-care unions. Based on collected data that highlights the unique struggles of migrant health and social care workers, and on the evidence that theatre and the arts can affect people鈥檚 views, we would like to contribute to issues of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in the health and social care sector, in particular training and professional development (professional services and development), and the cultural sector, in particular theatre programming.
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Human Rights: Theories and Applications (HU901)
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Gender, Race, Identity and Human Rights (HU931)
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The Sociological Imagination (SC111)
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Race, Class and Gender (SC233)
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PhD Colloquium 3: Disseminating Your Research (SC804)
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Quantitative Research Project (SC830)
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Research Project: Sociology (SC831)
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Research Project: Anthropology (SC832)
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Migration: Theory, Concepts and Selected Issues (SC982)
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Career Development and Making a Difference (SC199)
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Mastering Occupation (HS895)
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The thinking therapist (HS896)
Publications
Journal articles (7)
Kisubi Mbasalaki, P. and Kizito, K., (2024). . Social Inclusion. 12
Kisubi Mbasalaki, P. and Matchett, S., (2024). . SAGE Research Methods Cases: Diversifying and Decolonizing Research
Kisubi Mbasalaki, P., (2021). Review of Serena Owusua Dankwa, Knowing Women: Same-sex Intimacy, Gender and Identity in Postcolonial Ghana. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press (ISBN 978-1-108-49590-5). 2021, 318pp. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108863575. Africa: Journal of the International African Institute. 91 (4), 687-689
Dias, SR. and Kisubi Mbasalaki, P., (2021). . Language, Discourse and Society. 9 (2), 31-47
Kisubi Mbasalaki, P. and Matchett, S., (2020). . Studies on Home and Community Science. 14 (1-2), 7-18
Matchett, S. and Kisubi Mbasalaki, P., (2020). . Agenda. 34 (3), 74-86
Kisubi Mbasalaki, P., (2020). . GLQ: a journal of lesbian and gay studies. 26 (3), 455-475
Book chapters (9)
Kisubi Mbasalaki, P., (2024). . In: Queering Desire: Lesbians, Gender and Subjectivity. Editors: Ryan-Flood, R. and Tooth Murphy, A., . Routledge. 9781032499048
Kisubi Mbasalaki, P., (2023). . In: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Global South. Editors: Pinheiro-Machado, R. and Vargas Maia, T., . Routledge. 9781032040332
Kisubi Mbasalaki, P., (2023). . In: Difficult Conversations A Feminist Dialogue. Editors: Ryan-Flood, R., Crowhurst, I. and James-Hawkins, L., . Routledge. 133- 143. 9781003088417
Kisubi Mbasalaki, P., (2023). . In: The Routledge International Handbook on Femicide and Feminicide. Editors: Dawson, M. and Mobayed Vega, S., . Routledge. 9781032064390
Kisubi Mbasalaki, P., (2023). . In: The SAGE Handbook of Global Social Theory. Sage.. Editors: Bhambra, G., Mayblin, L., Medien, K. and Viveros Vigoya, M., . Sage. 9781529772128
Kisubi Mbasalaki, P., (2022). . In: Homnationalism, Femonationalism and Ablenationalism. Editors: Sifaki, A., Quinan, CL. and Loncarevic, K., . Routledge. 9780367715656
Kisubi Mbasalaki, P., (2022). . In: Investigating Cultures of Equality. Editors: Golanska, D., Rozalska, A. and Clisby, S., . Routledge. 9781032105161
Kisubi Mbasalaki, P., (2022). . In: Routledge Handbook of Queer Rhetoric. Editors: Rhodes, J. and Alexander, J., . Routledge. 9780367696580
Kisubi Mbasalaki, P., (2021). . In: Collaborative Conversations: Celebrating Twenty-One Years of the Mothertongue Project. Editors: Matchett, S. and Halligey, A., . Modjaji Books. 978-1928433163
Grants and funding
2024
Reparations: resisting historical and contemporary injustices through decolonial feminism
SOAS University of London
