All Outputs (17)

Whiteness, Racial Trauma, and the University (2025)
Book
Keval, H. (2025). Whiteness, Racial Trauma, and the University. SAGE Publications

In this book Harshad Keval offers an intensely personal testimony of racial trauma within the academy. Proposing the theoretical model of “white narcissistic structures” the author traces the paradox of academic institutions simultaneously embracing... Read More about Whiteness, Racial Trauma, and the University.

Encounters at the Counter: ‘Race’, Class and Belonging in the British Asian Corner Shop (2024)
Book Chapter
Keval, H. (2024). Encounters at the Counter: ‘Race’, Class and Belonging in the British Asian Corner Shop. In G. Campbell Gosling, A. R. Green, & G. Millar (Eds.), Retail and Community: Business, Charity and the End of Empire (176-194). Bristol University Press. https://doi.org/10.51952/9781529235265.ch011

A socio-cultural analysis of the intersections of race, ethnicity, national belonging in the UK landscape of 'corner' shop business ownership.

Race, Genetics and Disablement: Colonial Longings for Racial Certainty (2024)
Book Chapter
Keval, H. (2024). Race, Genetics and Disablement: Colonial Longings for Racial Certainty. In T. Chataika, & D. Goodley (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Disability Studies. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003310709-29

This chapter explores the relationship between disablement, race, coloniality and the social and cultural production of naturalised, embodied difference. Race here is a fluid, relational, technology of power that speaks to coloniality and often un-ar... Read More about Race, Genetics and Disablement: Colonial Longings for Racial Certainty.

Bond, Race and Coloniality No Time to Die (versify)… (2023)
Book Chapter
Keval, H. (2023). Bond, Race and Coloniality No Time to Die (versify)…. In C. Lindner, & L. Funnell (Eds.), Resisting James Bond: Power and Privilege in the Daniel Craig Era. Bloomsbury Publishing

This chapter speaks to the many ways in which the idea and practice of ‘race’, race-thinking and historiographies of race constitute colonial and imperial pasts and presents. Firstly, I provide a socio-structural, historical and political context to... Read More about Bond, Race and Coloniality No Time to Die (versify)….

Book Review: Gargi Bhattacharya, Adam Elliot-Cooper, Sita Balani, Kerem Nişancıoğlu, Kojo Koram, Dalia Gebrial, Nadine El-Enany and Luke de Noronha Empire’s Endgame: Racism and the British State (2022)
Journal Article
Keval, H. (2022). Book Review: Gargi Bhattacharya, Adam Elliot-Cooper, Sita Balani, Kerem Nişancıoğlu, Kojo Koram, Dalia Gebrial, Nadine El-Enany and Luke de Noronha Empire’s Endgame: Racism and the British State. Sociology, 56(5), 1045-1047. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385211073034

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“Merit”, “Success” and the Epistemic Logics of Whiteness in Racialised Education Systems (2021)
Book Chapter
Keval, H. (2021). “Merit”, “Success” and the Epistemic Logics of Whiteness in Racialised Education Systems. In D. S. Thomas, & J. Arday (Eds.), Doing Equity and Diversity for Success in Higher Education: Redressing Structural Inequalities in the Academy (127-137). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65668-3_10

Keval explores the shifting landscape of what ‘success’ comes to mean within the field of ‘mertitocracy’ in educational systems. Focusing on the epistemic, racialised and colonial constructions of knowledge and the hierarchical legitimacies afforded... Read More about “Merit”, “Success” and the Epistemic Logics of Whiteness in Racialised Education Systems.

Necropolitical constructions of happiness, COVID-19 and higher education (2021)
Journal Article
Keval, H., & Wright, T. (2021). Necropolitical constructions of happiness, COVID-19 and higher education. Critical Studies on Security, 9(2), 170-173. https://doi.org/10.1080/21624887.2021.1978644

The impact of COVID-19 on BAME populations: a systematic review of experiences and perspectives (2021)
Other
Toni, W., Keval, H., Claire, K., Gowri, N., Chise, O., Rajeeb, S., & Raymond, S. (2021). The impact of COVID-19 on BAME populations: a systematic review of experiences and perspectives

Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic (BAME) populations have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19, having amongst the highest rates of infection and mortality. Additional risk factors for BAME populations include older age and living with poverty an... Read More about The impact of COVID-19 on BAME populations: a systematic review of experiences and perspectives.

Race, gender and psychosis: ‘psycho-racial architectures of disordered sociality' (2019)
Book Chapter
Keval, H. (2019). Race, gender and psychosis: ‘psycho-racial architectures of disordered sociality'. In M. Brown, & M. Charles (Eds.), Women and the Psychosocial Construction of Madness. Rowman & Littlefield

What I intend to do in this chapter is to discuss the nature of the relationship between what might be understood and formulated as ‘psychosis’, race and gender. The nature of discourses around the mind-body connection in the generalised biomedical a... Read More about Race, gender and psychosis: ‘psycho-racial architectures of disordered sociality'.

‘Navigating the ‘Decolonising’ process: Avoiding pitfalls and some Do’s and Don’ts’ (2019)
Other
Keval, H. (2019). ‘Navigating the ‘Decolonising’ process: Avoiding pitfalls and some Do’s and Don’ts’. [Teaching resource]

Fifty ways to leave …… your racism (2018)
Journal Article
Patel, N., & Keval, H. (2018). Fifty ways to leave …… your racism. Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, 18(2), 61-79

“Racism does not stay still; it changes shape, size, contours, purpose, function…people’s attitudes don’t mean a damn to me, but it matters to me if I can’t send my child to the school I want…if I can’t get the job for which I am qualified…the acting... Read More about Fifty ways to leave …… your racism.

Accessing All Areas? Interviewing and Researching Within and Outside Difference (2018)
Book Chapter
Keval, H. (2018). Accessing All Areas? Interviewing and Researching Within and Outside Difference. In SAGE Research Methods Cases Part 2. SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781526437846

This case study is set against the backdrop of field work and research I conducted during my PhD. My doctoral thesis explored the intersections of race, medical sociology, and embodied experiences of health, risk, and ethnicity, later published in a... Read More about Accessing All Areas? Interviewing and Researching Within and Outside Difference.

Health, Ethnicity and Diabetes: Racialised Constructions of 'Risky' South Asian Bodies (2016)
Book
Keval, H. (2016). Health, Ethnicity and Diabetes: Racialised Constructions of 'Risky' South Asian Bodies. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-45703-5

This book explores the often contentious relationship between health, concepts of race and ethnicity, and the impact on South Asian groups. Using medical sociological and anthropological perspectives, it excavates racialised constructions of diabetes... Read More about Health, Ethnicity and Diabetes: Racialised Constructions of 'Risky' South Asian Bodies.

Risky cultures to risky genes: The racialised discursive construction of south Asian genetic diabetes risk (2015)
Journal Article
Keval, H. (2015). Risky cultures to risky genes: The racialised discursive construction of south Asian genetic diabetes risk. New Genetics and Society, 34(3), 274-293. https://doi.org/10.1080/14636778.2015.1036155

Type 2 diabetes within UK South Asian populations has increasingly become the focus of health science discourse. Growing rates across the globe have been a public health concern for a number of decades. Diabetes discourse has focused on lifestyle and... Read More about Risky cultures to risky genes: The racialised discursive construction of south Asian genetic diabetes risk.

Reconstructing Sikh Spirituality in Recovery from Alcohol Addiction (2015)
Journal Article
Morjaria-Keval, A., & Keval, H. (2015). Reconstructing Sikh Spirituality in Recovery from Alcohol Addiction. Religions, 6(1), 122-138. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel6010122

This paper situates Sikh identity, spirituality, and recovery from alcohol addiction within a nexus of complex social, psychological, and cultural factors. The way in which affected people in Sikh communities in Britain are able to locate and utilize... Read More about Reconstructing Sikh Spirituality in Recovery from Alcohol Addiction.

From ‘Multiculturalism’ to ‘Interculturalism’ – A commentary on the Impact of De-racing and De-classing the Debate (2014)
Journal Article
Keval, H. (2014). From ‘Multiculturalism’ to ‘Interculturalism’ – A commentary on the Impact of De-racing and De-classing the Debate. New Diversities, 16(2), 125-139

Recent discourses surrounding the so-called death or decline of multiculturalism are characterised by a movement towards notions and practices of ‘Interculturality’, ‘Interculturalism’ and what have been called ‘new frameworks’ for diversity and race... Read More about From ‘Multiculturalism’ to ‘Interculturalism’ – A commentary on the Impact of De-racing and De-classing the Debate.

Cultural dimensions of clinical depression in Bangalore, India (2001)
Journal Article
Raguram, R., Weiss, M. G., Keval, H., & Channabasavanna, S. M. (2001). Cultural dimensions of clinical depression in Bangalore, India. Anthropology and Medicine, 8(1), 31-46. https://doi.org/10.1080/13648470120063889

Though rates of depression are comparable across cultures, similar rates may obscure the diversity of the experience and meaning of depression and related behaviour. Appreciation of the social and cultural contexts is crucial in developing culturally... Read More about Cultural dimensions of clinical depression in Bangalore, India.