Borderlines is a recently formed cluster (2018) and an example of our support for innovative debates and for our staff’s embryonic research interests. Borderlines takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of cultural and creative industries from postcolonial and decolonial perspectives. It explores a range of issues including virtual and emergent technologies, emergent subjectivities and identities, precarious work, inequalities, aesthetics. Borderlines brings together researchers, artists, thinkers, makers, and practitioners interested in understanding the cultural sectors and in moving beyond neo-liberal logics of space, temporality and community. Members draw on a variety of critical methods from ethnography to participatory video methods to examine creative and cultural sectors across and between the Global North and South through workshops, academic writing, and dialogue with civil society organisations, NGOs, interest groups and practitioners. The Borderlines team has been actively involved in the Race Action Groups in QMUL and have contributed to discussions on creating a more equitable environment at QMUL level. Members serve as editorial members on a number of journals including Human Relations, Organizations, Sociology and Fast Capitalism.
Borderlines: Action Research Cluster in Creative and Cultural Economies
School of Business and ManagementQueen Mary University of LondonLondon, E1 4NS
Email: Y.ibrahim@qmul.ac.uk
Yasmin Ibrahim
Professor Yasmin Ibrahim’s research explores the human and social dimensions of digital platforms. She has written extensively on digital economy and culture. Her work on digital technologies advances critical pedagogies for understanding new media technologies in terms of socio-cultural and ethical implications. Another strand of her research explores notions of ‘Othering’ through dominant themes of inequalities, migration, human displacement, border controls, Islam and terrorism. She is Visiting Professor at the MYRA School of Business at Mysore. She is the lead for Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME) in SBM. Her book publications include Calais and its Border Politics: From Control to Demolition with Routledge, Production of the 'Self' in the Digital Age with Palgrave Macmillan and The Politics of Gaze; The Image Economy Online, Forthcoming with Routledge. For more details on her research and publications, https://qmul.academia.edu/yasminibrahim.
Sadhvi Dar
Sadhvi has an established presence in the postcolonial and decolonizing studies scholarly communities within the management and organization discipline. She was awarded her PhD in 2006 from the University of Cambridge. Her research draws on ethnographic and psychosocial methodologies and includes critical analyses of the international development sector, NGO management, and the intersection of race and gender in higher education. Sadhvi is dedicated to anti-racist work and embraces a decolonizing politics. She has been co-organizing anti-racist and decolonizing events and workshops at international conferences since 2005. She is also a co-founding member of the online communities: VIDA and the Decolonizing Alliance. She is Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy and is a member of Senate at Queen Mary. Her current projects engage in community-building and collaboration among scholars of colour and university workers. Building the Anti Racist Classroom, BreakThrough!, The Decolonizing Alliance. Sadhvi also works in collaboration with Queen Mary's Drama department on a multi-stakeholder research project called The Verbatim Formula. Since 2018, Sadhvi has been involved with consultancy projects tackling anti-racist pedagogy and decolonizing initiatives with a number of UK HEIs including Kent Law School, University of Roehampton, Middlesex University, Leeds-Beckett University, Loughborough University, University of Bath, and Queen Mary University of London. Sadhvi is also involved in a number of pro-bono consultancy roles with third sector organizations. These roles include sitting on the Evaluation Working Group for a mental health charity called the Dragon Café in London (2015-present), artistic director and research lead for a network of art practitioners and third sector managers called The Evaluation Project (2014-2018).
Amit Rai
We encourage, but are in no way limited to, asking questions about:
We support using the full, and growing, spectrum of disseminating work by:
This Research Group is linked to, but not limited by, the expected Masters in Creative Industries and Arts Leadership.
Discussion of ‘Jugaad Time’ by Amit S Rai - 9th October, 2019 in the South Asia Forum Discussion Group, https://projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/southasia/2019/09/19/discussion-of-amit-s-rais-jugaad-time/
Dr Jenny K. Rodriguez, Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester presented a Research Seminar on 4th November 2020, hosted by Dr Sadhvi Dar, Borderlines. The title of the talk was "From zero to hero: Narratives of professional identity in times of Covid-19". Also, my co-authors in this work are Gregorio Perez (University of Santiago de Chile) and Stephen Procter (Newcastle University)
In 2019, As part of the Festival of Communities, Borderlines organized the ‘Veiled Gaze’ exhibition primarily catering to the Tower Hamlet and East London Communities. The exhibition sought to track the relevance of the veil to all communities/religions in Tower Hamlets. Following from the 2018 UNPRME conference ‘Leaving No one Behind’ Hosted by SBM, in 2019 the school also hosted a South East London Regional meeting to discuss communal and environmental initiatives to specifically cater to the region.
Maria Adamson
Maria Adamson's main research interests lie in the area of gender inequalities in professional work, including the focus on socio-cultural basis of gender workplace inequality, social and organisational dynamics of (in)equalities at work, feminist theorising in management and organisation studies and her recent research on the role of business celebrities and the impact of popular culture on work and organisations. Maria's projects have critically explored the quality of inclusion in professions and organisations, applying a postfeminist lens to understand contemporary gendered inequalities in the workplace. Her current project focuses exploring the elite female executives as gendered role models, specifically it seeks to understand the relationship between cultural discourses of femininity produced by celebrity executives and the impact they have on aspiring businesswomen and the construction of gendered workplace meanings.
Mojisola Adebayo
Lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance in the School of English and Drama.London born theatre artist - performer, playwright, director, producer, facilitator, teacher and researcher.
Rehana Ahmed
Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial and World Literature and Culture; British Muslim, British Asian and South Asian literature and culture; multiculturalism; literary controversies.
Maher Anjum
Organisational Consultant, Senior Researcher and Programme Manager, with 15 years’ experience of developing evidenced based projects and building high profile public-private partnerships to achieve social progress, minimize environmental footprint and develop sustainable opportunities for those with limited access to resources and opportunities including young people and vulnerable people. Diverse skills in accelerating initiatives through, high level research, focus group with stakeholders building cross-cultural relationships, facilitating workshops and training, and delivering high-value global programs.
Suyash Barve
In my PhD, I am exploring the historic and contemporary interconnections between the creation, circulation and consumption of cultural commodities and the production of political discourse with a focus on media ecologies of India specifically the business strategies of merchant capitalists and organization of labour. Through this project, I hope to contribute to the expanding literature in varied areas of research interest such as economic history of South Asia, labour movements of the twentieth century, affective politics of urbanization, political economy of media and information communication infrastructure amongst others.
Ashvin Immanuel Devasundaram
Senior Lecturer, specialising in World Cinemas, particularly new independent Indian Cinema, emerging cinemas from South Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and Africa.
Marcia Vera Espinoza
Rachael Gilmour
Reader Colonial and postcolonial literature and theory; African literary and cultural studies; Colonialism, postcolonialism, and linguistic thought; Black British and British Asian writing; Language politics and literary translingualism
Jessica Jacobs
Research Fellow, with research interests in filmmaking, creative mapping and other community focused strategies that aim to engage a wider audience within the scope of academic research and knowledge production.
Charlotta Salmi
Lecturer Postcolonial Literature and Theory; Graphic Narratives; Literary Form; Conflict and protest literature; Borders and the state.
Nisha Ramayya
Lecturer Contemporary and Experimental Poetry and Poetics; Critical Race Theory and Black Study; Feminist and Queer Theory; Visual, Sound, and Video Poetry, and Performance.
Bill Schwarz
Professor Caribbean writing; Postcolonial; twentieth-century British history
Philippa Williams
Senior Lecturer in Human Geography,Senior Tutor Geography Building, Room 215 +44 (0)20 7882 6977 p.williams@qmul.ac.uk Citizenship, development and identity in India; India’s new economy; geographies of peace; material politics of transnational identities