Dr. Davina Bhandar

Assistant Professor

Contact information

E-mail: dbhandar@athabascau.ca

Current courses

Dr. Davina Bhandar

Assistant Professor

Contact information

Email: dbhandar@athabascau.ca

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Davina Bhandar is a faculty member in the Political Science program, Centre for Social Sciences at Athabasca University.

Davina’s research and teaching interests are in the intersecting fields of critical race theory, anti-colonialism, feminist studies, contemporary theories of democracy, freedom, citizenship , sovereignty and borders. She has taught widely on critical race studies, immigration policy, security, mass incarceration, and migration studies. Davina is working on several projects involving migration, citizenship and borders.

Her current book length project examines migrant subjectivity, with a particular focus on the experience of South Asian migration from India to Canada through the early to late twentieth century, tracing the processes of becoming citizen from the place of migrant subject-hood. Her interest in migration and settlement involves understanding the continued impact of dispossession entailed in the settler-colonial lands of Turtle Island, and particularly in the unceded territories of the Coast Salish Peoples. She looks forward to working with colleagues and students in collaboration.

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Research interests

Intersectional and Critical Race Studies
Citizenship Studies
Security and Borders
South Asian Diaspora and Migration
Contemporary Political Theory and Marxism

Educational credentials

Phd Political Science York University (specialization in Political Theory and Women and Politics)
MA Political Science York University
BA (hons) Political Studies and History, Queen's University

Professional affiliations

Section Editor, Studies in Social Justice
Brock University Insurgent/ Resurgent Knowledges Lab, Athabasca University

Anita Girvan, Baljit Kaur Pardesi, Davina Bhandar, and Nisha Nath. 2020 Racial Capitalism Gone Viral: Remedies in Poetics of Care. Feminist Studies special issue Vol 46 no. 3.

Brenna Bhandar and Davina Bhandar. 2016 “Cultures of Dispossession
Critical Reflections on Status, Rights and Identities”, eds. Brenna Bhandar and Davina Bhandar, Reflections on Dispossession: Critical Feminisms, Darkmatter Journal http://www.darkmatter101.org/site/)

Davina Bhandar. 2016 “Decolonizing the Politics of Status: When the Border Crosses Us” in eds. Brenna Bhandar and Davina Bhandar, Reflections on Dispossession: Critical Feminisms, Darkmatter Journal http://www.darkmatter101.org/site/)

Davina Bhandar. 2010 “Cultural Politics: Disciplining Citizenship” Special Issue Citizenship Studies eds. Pieter Boele van Hensbroek and Judith Vega.vol 14 no.3 (331-343)

Davina Bhandar. 2004 “Renormalizing Citizenship and Life in Fortress North America” Citizenship Studies 8:3 September (261-278)

2. Edited Collections

Davina Bhandar, Catherine Kellogg and Michael CK Ma, From Carceral Logistics to the Cultural, TOPIA special issue Vol.43 Fall 2021.

Rita Dhamoon, Davina Bhandar, Renisa Mawani and Satwinder Bains. 2019. Unmooring the Komagata Maru: Charting Colonial Trajectories. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.

Brenna Bhandar and Davina Bhandar eds. 2016 Reflections on Dispossession: Critical Feminism Darkmatter Journal
http://www.darkmatter101.org/site/

R.J. Gilmour, Davina Bhandar, Jeet Heer and Michael Ma eds. 2012 Too Asian?: Racism and Post Secondary Education in Canada, Toronto: Between the Lines Press.

Davina Bhandar, Doreen Fumia and Zoe Newman guest eds. Special Issue: Decolonizing Space. 2009 Resources for Feminist Research, OISE/UT Volume 33 nos.1/2.

3. Chapters in Edited volumes

Davina Bhandar. 2019 “Temporary Arrivals: The Komagata Maru Passengers and Migrant Labour” eds. Rita Dhamoon, Davina Bhandar, Renisa Mawani and Satwinder Bains. Unmooring the Komagata Maru: Charting Colonial Trajectories Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press (141-160)

Davina Bhandar and Rita Dhamoon. 2019 “Introduction: Unmooring the Komagata Maru”. eds. Rita Dhamoon, Davina Bhandar, Renisa Mawani and Satwinder Bains. Unmooring the Komagata Maru: Charting Colonial Trajectories. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. (3-31)

Davina Bhandar and Michael CK Ma. 2016 “Phobia in an Age of Post Migrant-Rights: The regional response and criminalization of Tamil refugees.” eds. Hisham Ramadan and Jeffrey Shantz, Manufacturing Phobias: The Political Production of Fear in Theory and Practice, University of Toronto Press (175-208)

Davina Bhandar and Michael Ma. 2012 “Peterborough” eds. Vikki Esses, John Biles, Caroline Andrews Erin Tolley, Immigration, Integration and Inclusion in Ontario Cities. McGill –Queen’s University Press.

Davina Bhandar. 2011 “Cultural Politics: Disciplining Citizenship” Cultural Citizenship in Political Theory eds. Judith Vega and Pieter Boele van Hensbroek. Routledge: New York (reprint article) (87-101)

Davina Bhandar, Doreen Fumia and Zoe Newman guest eds.2009 “Introduction: Special Issue Decolonizing Space” Resources for Feminist Research, OISE/UT Volume 33 nos.1/2

Davina Bhandar. 2009 “Renormalizing Citizenship and Life in Fortress North America” ed. Peter Nyers, Securitizations of Citizenship New York: Routledge (reprint article) (59-76)

Davina Bhandar. 2008 “Resistance, Detention and Speculation on the Onto- Politics of Border Crossings and Seeking Asylum in North America” eds. Deborah Cowen and Emily Gilbert, War Citizenship Territory , Routledge New York (281-302)

Non-Refereed Essays, Book Reviews and Encyclopaedic Essays:
Davina Bhandar. 2019 “ Arrivals: Marking Time” BC Studies no.200 (107-110).
Davina Bhandar. 2017 “Tripping on Pavements” BC Studies no.195 (113-115)
Davina Bhandar. 2010 “Stuart Hall” in The Routledge Companion to Race and Ethnicity. eds. Charl