Graduate Associate
banazeer[at]yorku.ca
Doctoral Student
Graduate Program in Sociology, York University
Research Keywords:
Race; racialization; indigeneity; feminist studies; critical Muslim studies; decolonial studies
Research Region(s):
South Asia
Benazir Shah is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology. She holds a Master’s degree in Educational Policy Studies, with a specialization in Social Justice and International Studies in Education, from the University of Alberta. Her primary research interests include transnational Indigeneity, Critical Muslim Studies and Feminist Studies. Her PhD research focuses on the geopolitical land-based struggles of people in Gilgit-Baltistan, examining how state-building projects in the “disputed territories” (Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan) reproduce colonial oppression, including settler occupation on Indigenous lands.