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Dr Ajmal Hussain

Associate Professor in Sociology

Email: ajmal dot hussain at warwick dot ac dot uk

Room: D0.18, Social Sciences

Profile

Ajmal Hussain joined ÌÇÐÄTV in December 2020. Prior to this he was Research Fellow in Sociology at the University of Manchester. He has been recipient of a number of commendations and awards for the societal impact of his research. Ajmal obtained his PhD from the University of Manchester and also holds degrees in Politics and History (Brunel, SUNY Brockport) and Race and Ethnic Relations (Birkbeck, London). Ajmal has held visiting fellowships at LSE Cities and Aston University.

 

Research interests

Ajmal’s research interests and activity are broadly located in urban and cultural sociology, and straddle the conceptual, methodological and impact in equal measure.

Conceptually, Ajmal is interested in the translation of Muslim culture and tradition across time/space and particularly in postcolonial societies of contemporary Europe. This incorporates interests in South Asian diaspora, migration and settlement, multiculturalism, racism and resistance, popular and political representation, political and moral economy of the ‘urban enclave’ and governmentality and biopolitics in relation to the ‘war on terror’. His book, under contract with Manchester University Press, tentatively titled Urban Rituals documents the emergence of Muslim vernacular culture through analysis of the interaction between the material, social, and narrative life of the inner city. It makes use of work in the areas of affect, infrastructure and assemblage to develop a new theoretical framework for understanding the relationship between multiculture and faith in everyday urban life.

Methodologically, Ajmal is interested in participatory as well as multi-sensory and artistic means for accessing and representing social life. In his research to date he has collaborated with institutional and civil society actors at the city level as both users and producers of knowledge. Ajmal has considerable experience of dissemination and outreach work at EU level as well as with national and local government in the UK.

Recent funded research:

- funded from the sixth NORFACE transnational programme on Democratic governance in a turbulent age (2020-24). This is a collaborative endeavour with a number of civil society actors engaged in anti-racism within the city of Birmingham (UK). The project is also a comparative venture with academics and further collaboration partners from the cities of Madrid, Oslo and Paris.

- funded from the UK Horizon Guarantee is a collaboration with a number of HEI's and NGO's from across Europe (2022-2026), and is concerned with investigating spatial inequality through an intersectional lens.

 

Publications

Hussain, A (forthcoming) Urban Rituals: Re-arranging race in the Muslim city, Manchester University Press.

Hussain, A & Poli, A (2026) [Special issue] , Ethnic & Racial Studies, 49:15, 1-17

Hussain, A (2026) , Ethnic & Racial Studies, 49:15

with Shair, G.A (2026) , Ethnic and Racial Studies, 49:15

Hussain, A (2024) . Ethnic and Racial Studies, 1–10.

Hussain, A. (2024). Revista De Estudios Internacionales Mediterráneos, (36), 111–132.

with The Re-Arrangements Collective (2023) , International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Vol. 47(3) 461-470

with The Re-Arrangements Collective (2023) , International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Vol 47(3) 496-509

with The Re-Arrangements Collective (2023) , International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Vol. 47(3) 510-521

Hussain, A (2022) , Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Vol. 40(3) 469-485

with Pilkington, H (2022) Journal for Deradicalisation, no 30 Spring, 1-44

Hussain, A (2018) , Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 25:1, 35-40

Hussain, A., Higson, H, & Robinson, J (2018) Birmingham Case Study: Lozells & East Handsworth and Bordesley Green, in Güntner, S., Seukwa, LH., Gehrke, AM & Robinson, J (eds.) Local Matters: How neighbourhoods and services affect the social inclusion and exclusion of young people in European cities. Berlin. Peter Lang GmbH. pp 79-10

Hussain, A. (2017) Infrastructures of Hope: young people’s everyday strategies of survival and innovation in a post-crisis UK city, in Schroeder, J & Seukwa, LH (eds) Social Educational Work: European debates and projects. Springer VS.

Hussain, A (2015) , in Toguslu, E (ed) Everyday Life Practices of Muslims in Europe: Aesthetics and Consumption. Leuven. University of Leuven Press. pp 175-192

Hussain, A (2014) , Ethnic and Racial Studies, 37:4, 621-635.

with Bhattcharyya, G., Cowles, J. & Garner, S (2012) . Sociological Research Online, 17 (1) 11

OTHER

Hussain, A; Pilkington H; Simcock K; Nicholas, J; Vickers, H & Rogerson, L (2019) . Commission for Countering Extremism.

Hussain, A & Meer, N (2018) , Discover Society.

with Acik, N (2018) Policy@Manchester. (Posted on 10 May 2018)

Hussain, A & Meer, N (2017) Framing Muslim Integration, in .

Hussain, A (2017) Policy@Manchester. (Posted on 4 July 2017)

Hussain, A (2013) . Runnymede Perspectives. Runnymede Trust.

with Alexander, C & Redclift, V (2013) . Runnymede Trust.

Hussain, A (2011) Guardian Society special feature ‘Behind the Riots’. (Posted 7 September 2011)