Giulia Liberatore
Lecturer in Muslims in Europe
- Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
- Alwaleed Centre
- Sociology
Contact details
- Tel: +44 (0)131 650 4463
- Email: giulia.liberatore@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Room G.3
19 George Square - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9LD
Availability
[On maternity leave in 2020/21]
Background
I am Lecturer at IMES and Sociology and an academic lead on the Muslims in Europe research theme at the Alwaleed Centre.
I am currently working on an ERC-funded project on Multi-Religious Encounters in Urban Settings with Ammara Maqsood (UCL) and Leslie Fesenmyer (Birmingham). The project theorises inter-religious interactions in non-secular contexts through comparative ethnographic work in Italy, Pakistan, and Kenya.
I joined the university in 2017 as a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow working on a 3-year ethnographic project on female Islamic scholarship and guidance in the UK. I have a PhD in Anthropology from the London School of Economics (LSE). My monograph, which is based on my doctoral research, is entitled Somali, Muslim, British: Striving in Securitized Britain (2017) and it chronicles the aspirations of different generations of Somali women as they respond to publicly charged questions of what it means to be Muslim, Somali, and British.
Between 2014-16 I worked at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), University of Oxford
Postgraduate teaching
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Research summary
Keywords: Politics of difference; religious diversity; public religion; Islam/Muslims in Europe; sociology and anthropology of Islam; Somali diaspora, gender and subjectivity.
Affiliated research centres
- Alwaleed Centre
Project activity
Multi-religious Encounters in Urban Settings (MEUS)
Current project grants
ERC Starting Grant, Horizon 2020
Past project grants
Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, for a project on 'Female Muslim Leaders in Britain: Transnational Publics and Changing Forms of Leadership and Authority in Britain'
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Introduction: Crossing religious and ethnographic boundaries - the case for comparative reflection
(16 pages)
In:
Social Anthropology, vol. 28, pp. 386-401
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12779
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Guidance as 'women's work': A new generation of female Islamic authorities in Britain
In:
Religions, vol. 10
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10110601
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Bowen, John R (2016) On British Islam: religion, law, and everyday practice in shari'a councils. Princeton: University Press
In:
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, vol. 25, pp. 182-183
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12980
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Book/Film/Article review (Published) -
Diaspora and religion: Connecting and disconnecting
(8 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315209050
Research output: › Chapter (Published) -
Forging a ‘good diaspora’: Political mobilization among Somalis in the UK
In:
Development and change, vol. 49, pp. 146-169
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12358
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Somali, Muslim, British: Striving in Securitized Britain
(304 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350027749
Research output: › Book (Published) -
Between wandering and staying put: Piety and urban mobility among young Somali women in multicultural London
Research output: › Chapter (Published) -
‘For my mum It comes with the culture’: Intergenerational dynamics and young Somali women’s interventions within multicultural debates in Britain
In:
Bildhaan: An International Journal of Somali Studies, vol. 16, pp. 49-64
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Imagining an ideal husband: Marriage as a site of aspiration among pious Somali women in London
In:
Anthropological Quarterly, vol. 89, pp. 781-812
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/anq.2016.0047
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Diasporas Reimagined: Spaces, Practices and Belonging
(231 pages)
Research output: › Book (Published)