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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)….

“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.

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'.

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.