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Dr Shereen Fernandez received her PhD from Queen Mary University where she examined the impacts of the Prevent Duty and fundamental British values requirement on teachers and Muslim communities in London. Upon completion of her PhD, she was a Lecturer in Human Geography at Queen Mary University and then an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the LSE. Shereen has published widely on topics relating to race and institutional power, Muslims and securitisation, and the continued impacts of the War on Terror on racialised communities. She is interested in the legal infrastructures of the War on Terror and the affective life of documents.
Research
Expertise details:
Muslim Geographies; the War on Terror; surveillance and securitisation
Publications:
“The Geographies of Prevent: The Transformation of the Muslim Home into a Pre-Crime space”. 2018. Journal of Muslims in Europe. 7(2), pp. 167-189
“Where does Shamima Begum exist?”. 2019. Ceasefire Magazine
“A politics of refusal within and beyond the academy”. 2020. I Refuse to Condemn: Writers of Colour resisting racism in times of national security
“Guantanamo Bay: A lingering symbol of US injustice”. 2020. Middle East Eye
“The Forde report and the dangers of diversity”. 2022. Middle East Eye
“Truth and Falsehood in the Trojan Horse Affair”. 2022. Discover Society