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Amar Wahab

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School of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies

Professor

Office: Founders College
Phone: (416) 736-2100
Email: awahab@yorku.ca


Amar Wahab is Professor of Gender and Sexuality in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at York University. He has taught in the areas of critical sexuality studies, critical studies in masculinity, critical race studies, introductory and advanced sociological theory and Caribbean cultural studies. His research interests include: race, sexuality and indentureship, sexual citizenship in liberal and postcolonial nation-state formations (mainly related to the Caribbean and Canada), race and queer transnational politics, critiques of queer liberalism, and race, gender and the politics of representation. His current research project focuses on the erotics of Indian indentureship.

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Degrees

PhD, University of Toronto
MA, Shimane University
B.Sc., The University of the West Indies

Research Interests

Sexuality , Gender Issues, Queer studies, Critical Race studies, Transnational and Postcolonial Cultural studies
Books

Publication
Year

https://www.peterlang.com/document/1057009

2019

Envisioning LGBT Human Rights: (Neo)Colonialism, Neoliberalism and
Activism

2018

Free At Last: Critical Reflections on the Bicentennial of the Abolition of the British Slave Trade (with C. Jones, co-editor, University of Warwick), Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011.

2011

Colonial Inventions: Landscape, Power and Representation in Nineteenth-Century ‘Trinidad’ Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010.

2010

Diasporic Ruptures: Globality, Migrancy, and Expressions of Identity, Volumes I and II (with co-editors A. Asgarzadeh, E. Lawson and K. Oka), Sense Publishers, The Netherlands. 2007.

2007

The First Crossing: Being the Diary of Theophilus Richmond, Ship’s Doctor on the Hesperus (with co-editors D. Dabydeen, J. Morley, B. Samaroo and B. Wells), The Derek Walcott Press, United Kingdom, 2007.

2007

Book Chapters

Publication
Year

‘Decolonial interventions to Queer Necropolitics and Homonationalisms.’ In Gül Çalışkan and Kayla Preston (eds.) Gendering Globalization, Globalizing Gender: Post-Colonial Perspectives, Oxford University Press

2020

‘Unveiling Fetishnationalism: Bidding for Citizenship in Queer Times.’ 2015. In Suzanne Lenon and OmiSoore Dryden (eds.), Disturbing Queer Inclusion: Canadian Homonationalisms and the Politics of Belonging, University of British Columbia Press.

2015

‘Island of the Blest’: (Re)naturalizing the Natural Landscape in 19th- Century Trinidad.’ 2007. In E. Sommerville and C. Campbell (eds.) What is the Earthly Paradise?: Ecocritical Responses to the Caribbean, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, (pp. 50-72).

2007

‘Consuming Narratives: Questioning Authority and the Politics of Representation in Social Science Research.’ 2005. In: George Dei (ed.) Critical Issues in Anti-Racist Research Methodologies. Peter Lang Publishers, (pp. 29-51).

2005

Monographs

Publication
Year

Disciplining Coolies: An Archival Footprint of Trinidad, 1846,

2019

Journal Articles

Publication
Year

https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169/jofstudindentleg.2.2.0001

2022

chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.scienceopen.com/document_file/def2479b-761b-4e79-a5a9-ae0bec76aac8/ScienceOpen/JIL_2_1_Wahab.pdf

2022

https://www.jstor.org/stable/48706323

2022

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/13634607211000193

2022

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14616742.2020.1758589

2021

‘Queer Antiracist Vigilance: Pinkwatching ‘Queer Investments’ in State
Racist Violence,’

2020

‘The Darker the Fruit’?: Disciplinary Homonationalism, Racialized
Homophobia and Neoliberal Tourism in the St. Lucian-US Contact Zone,’

2020

Affective Mobilizations: Pinkwashing and Racialized Homophobia in Out There.

2019

‘Debrisn-1: Visualizing a Bullerman Erotics.

2019

Indentureship’s Ghostworld: Re-imagining the Coolie Archive

2018

‘Homosexuality/Homophobia is un/African?: Un/Mapping Transnational Discourses in the context of Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill/Act.’ Journal of Homosexuality, Vol. 63, No. 5: 685-718. 2016.

2016

Calling ‘Homophobia’ into Place (Jamaica): Homo/trans/nationalism in the Stop Murder Music Campaign.’ Interventions: Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Vol. 18, No. 6: 908-928. 2016.

2016

‘Homophobia as the State of Reason: The Case of Postcolonial Trinidad and Tobago.’ GLQ: Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies, Issue 18.4. 2012.

2012

‘In the Name of Reason: Colonial Liberalism and the Government of West Indian Indentureship’ Journal of Historical Sociology Volume 24, Issue 2, 2011.

2011

‘Queerness in the Transnational Caribbean Canadian Diaspora.’ (co-edited with Dwaine Plaza) Caribbean Review of Gender Studies Special Issue on Critical Sexualities, Vol. 3, November 2009.

2009

‘Race, Gender, and Visuality: Regulating Indian Women Subjects in the Colonial Caribbean.’ Caribbean Review of Gender Studies Vol. 2, September 2008.

2008

‘Mapping West Indian Orientalism: Race, Gender and Representations of Indentured Coolies in the Nineteenth-Century British West Indies.’ Journal of Asian American Studies, Vol. 10, No. 3, October 2007.

2007

‘Contesting Cultural Citizenship?: The East Indian ‘Big House’ in Trinidad’s Nationalist Discourse.’ Journal of Works and Days: Intellectual Intersections and Racial/Ethnic Crossings, 47/48, Vol. 24, Nos. 1 & 2, 2006.

2006

Creative Works

Publication
Year

https://www.jstor.org/stable/48706323

2022

They Came in Ships

2020

https://www.vasaartsfestival.ca/2020-artists/

2020

Coolie Hauntings

2019

https://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2019/10/14/book-launch-exhibition-opening-celebrates-work-of-prof-amar-wahab/

2019

Other

Publication
Year

Coolie Hauntings

2019


Current Courses

Term Course Number Section Title Type
Fall/Winter 2023 AP/GWST2512 6.0 A Race, Gender & Sexuality ONLN
Fall/Winter 2023 AP/SXST4600 6.0 A Advanced Seminar in Sexuality Studies ONLN



Amar Wahab is Professor of Gender and Sexuality in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at York University. He has taught in the areas of critical sexuality studies, critical studies in masculinity, critical race studies, introductory and advanced sociological theory and Caribbean cultural studies. His research interests include: race, sexuality and indentureship, sexual citizenship in liberal and postcolonial nation-state formations (mainly related to the Caribbean and Canada), race and queer transnational politics, critiques of queer liberalism, and race, gender and the politics of representation. His current research project focuses on the erotics of Indian indentureship.

Degrees

PhD, University of Toronto
MA, Shimane University
B.Sc., The University of the West Indies

Research Interests

Sexuality , Gender Issues, Queer studies, Critical Race studies, Transnational and Postcolonial Cultural studies

All Publications


Book Chapters

Publication
Year

‘Decolonial interventions to Queer Necropolitics and Homonationalisms.’ In Gül Çalışkan and Kayla Preston (eds.) Gendering Globalization, Globalizing Gender: Post-Colonial Perspectives, Oxford University Press

2020

‘Unveiling Fetishnationalism: Bidding for Citizenship in Queer Times.’ 2015. In Suzanne Lenon and OmiSoore Dryden (eds.), Disturbing Queer Inclusion: Canadian Homonationalisms and the Politics of Belonging, University of British Columbia Press.

2015

‘Island of the Blest’: (Re)naturalizing the Natural Landscape in 19th- Century Trinidad.’ 2007. In E. Sommerville and C. Campbell (eds.) What is the Earthly Paradise?: Ecocritical Responses to the Caribbean, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, (pp. 50-72).

2007

‘Consuming Narratives: Questioning Authority and the Politics of Representation in Social Science Research.’ 2005. In: George Dei (ed.) Critical Issues in Anti-Racist Research Methodologies. Peter Lang Publishers, (pp. 29-51).

2005

Books

Publication
Year

https://www.peterlang.com/document/1057009

2019

Envisioning LGBT Human Rights: (Neo)Colonialism, Neoliberalism and
Activism

2018

Free At Last: Critical Reflections on the Bicentennial of the Abolition of the British Slave Trade (with C. Jones, co-editor, University of Warwick), Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011.

2011

Colonial Inventions: Landscape, Power and Representation in Nineteenth-Century ‘Trinidad’ Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010.

2010

Diasporic Ruptures: Globality, Migrancy, and Expressions of Identity, Volumes I and II (with co-editors A. Asgarzadeh, E. Lawson and K. Oka), Sense Publishers, The Netherlands. 2007.

2007

The First Crossing: Being the Diary of Theophilus Richmond, Ship’s Doctor on the Hesperus (with co-editors D. Dabydeen, J. Morley, B. Samaroo and B. Wells), The Derek Walcott Press, United Kingdom, 2007.

2007

Monographs

Publication
Year

Disciplining Coolies: An Archival Footprint of Trinidad, 1846,

2019

Journal Articles

Publication
Year

https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169/jofstudindentleg.2.2.0001

2022

chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.scienceopen.com/document_file/def2479b-761b-4e79-a5a9-ae0bec76aac8/ScienceOpen/JIL_2_1_Wahab.pdf

2022

https://www.jstor.org/stable/48706323

2022

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/13634607211000193

2022

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14616742.2020.1758589

2021

‘Queer Antiracist Vigilance: Pinkwatching ‘Queer Investments’ in State
Racist Violence,’

2020

‘The Darker the Fruit’?: Disciplinary Homonationalism, Racialized
Homophobia and Neoliberal Tourism in the St. Lucian-US Contact Zone,’

2020

Affective Mobilizations: Pinkwashing and Racialized Homophobia in Out There.

2019

‘Debrisn-1: Visualizing a Bullerman Erotics.

2019

Indentureship’s Ghostworld: Re-imagining the Coolie Archive

2018

‘Homosexuality/Homophobia is un/African?: Un/Mapping Transnational Discourses in the context of Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill/Act.’ Journal of Homosexuality, Vol. 63, No. 5: 685-718. 2016.

2016

Calling ‘Homophobia’ into Place (Jamaica): Homo/trans/nationalism in the Stop Murder Music Campaign.’ Interventions: Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Vol. 18, No. 6: 908-928. 2016.

2016

‘Homophobia as the State of Reason: The Case of Postcolonial Trinidad and Tobago.’ GLQ: Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies, Issue 18.4. 2012.

2012

‘In the Name of Reason: Colonial Liberalism and the Government of West Indian Indentureship’ Journal of Historical Sociology Volume 24, Issue 2, 2011.

2011

‘Queerness in the Transnational Caribbean Canadian Diaspora.’ (co-edited with Dwaine Plaza) Caribbean Review of Gender Studies Special Issue on Critical Sexualities, Vol. 3, November 2009.

2009

‘Race, Gender, and Visuality: Regulating Indian Women Subjects in the Colonial Caribbean.’ Caribbean Review of Gender Studies Vol. 2, September 2008.

2008

‘Mapping West Indian Orientalism: Race, Gender and Representations of Indentured Coolies in the Nineteenth-Century British West Indies.’ Journal of Asian American Studies, Vol. 10, No. 3, October 2007.

2007

‘Contesting Cultural Citizenship?: The East Indian ‘Big House’ in Trinidad’s Nationalist Discourse.’ Journal of Works and Days: Intellectual Intersections and Racial/Ethnic Crossings, 47/48, Vol. 24, Nos. 1 & 2, 2006.

2006

Creative Works

Publication
Year

https://www.jstor.org/stable/48706323

2022

They Came in Ships

2020

https://www.vasaartsfestival.ca/2020-artists/

2020

Coolie Hauntings

2019

https://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2019/10/14/book-launch-exhibition-opening-celebrates-work-of-prof-amar-wahab/

2019

Other

Publication
Year

Coolie Hauntings

2019


Current Courses

Term Course Number Section Title Type
Fall/Winter 2023 AP/GWST2512 6.0 A Race, Gender & Sexuality ONLN
Fall/Winter 2023 AP/SXST4600 6.0 A Advanced Seminar in Sexuality Studies ONLN