Talk:Fareen Parvez

Fareen Parvez is Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of Sociology at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, as of October 13, 2022. Her research interests span across Political Sociology, Sociology of Debt, Sociology of Religion, Social Theory, Gender, Racial Institutions, Ethnography.

Publications (as listed on the University page)-

Book, Politicizing Islam: the Islamic Revival in France and India (Oxford University Press, 2017

Scholarly Articles -

Z. Fareen Parvez. 2021. “Reflections on Mutual Aid.” In Pandemic Exposures: Economy and Society in the Time of Coronavirus, edited by Didier Fassin and Marion Fourcade. Chicago: HAU Books. Pp. 209-225 (focuses on India and US)

Z. Fareen Parvez. "The Sorrow of Parting: Ethnographic depth and the role of emotions." Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. 47(4): 454-483. (focuses on India and France)

Z. Fareen Parvez. 2014. “Celebrating the Prophet: Religious nationalism and the politics of Milad-un-Nabi festivals in India.” Nations and Nationalism 20(2): 218-238

In 2021, she endorsed the "Dismantling Global Hindutva" conference and made the allegation

"the current government of India [in 2021] has instituted discriminatory policies including beef bans, restrictions on religious conversion and interfaith weddings, and the introduction of religious discrimination into India’s citizenship laws. The result has been a horrifying rise in religious and caste-based violence, including hate crimes, lynchings, and rapes directed against Muslims, non-conforming Dalits, Sikhs, Christians, adivasis and other dissident Hindus. Women of these communities are especially targeted. Meanwhile, the government has used every tool of harassment and intimidation to muzzle dissent. Dozens of student activists and human rights defenders are currently languishing in jail indefinitely without due process under repressive anti-terrorism laws."

References

• Fareen Parvez page on University of Massachusetts, Amherst accessed October 13, 2022