Dr Amani Hassani
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow

Summary

Amani Hassani is an urban ethnographer working at the intersection of sociology, anthropology, and human geography. Her research explores the connection between racialisation and spatialisation, focusing on Muslim populations in the Global North. She has written widely on racialisation, Islamophobia, and Muslim experiences in academic and public domains.

She joined Brunel in 2022 as a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, leading the research project "The Other's Right to the City: a comparative ethnography of Denmark's ghetto policy." The project examines how processes of racialisation, Islamophobia, and hostile immigration policies shape national and urban politics, manifested through urban renewal policies.

Her previous research has focused on Muslims in Denmark and Canada, delving into issues of racialisation, class, gender, and urban life. Hassani explores the interplay between nationalism, racialisation and spatialisation in urban contexts by drawing on critical sociology, political anthropology, and human geography, .

Following the completion of her PhD at Concordia University in Canada, Hassani relocated to the UK, where she received the Sociological Review Fellowship (2020). This fellowship facilitated the transformation of her thesis into a monograph titled "Navigating Colour-Blind Societies: A Comparative Ethnography of Muslim Urban Life in Copenhagen and Montreal" (2024).

Since earning her PhD, Hassani has taught at Goldsmiths, Concordia University and Aarhus university, in a wide range of modules including urban studies, youth studies, sociological theory, racialisation, and ethnographic methods.

Qualifications

PhD in Social and Cultural Analysis (a combined doctorate in Sociology and Anthropology), Concordia University

MSc in Anthropology, University of Copenhagen

BA in Anthropology, University of Copenhagen