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Dr Nadia KIWAN The University of Aberdeen School of Language & Literature Senior Lecturer work +44 (0)1224 274201 work fax +44 (0)1224 272624 pref n.kiwan@abdn.ac.uk pref Department of French School of Language & Literature University of Aberdeen Taylor Building Old Aberdeen AB24 3UB

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Biography

I joined the French Department at the University of Aberdeen in January 2006.

 

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Research Interests

My research interests focus on contemporary French and Francophone cultures and societies. I am particularly interested in migration, identity, new social movements, new forms of migrant cultural production and citizenship. I would be keen to supervise postgraduate students in any of these areas.

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Research Grants

Diaspora as Social and Cultural practice: a Study of Transnational Networks across Europe and Africa

(with Professor Ulrike H. Meinhof, University of Southampton) 

Awarded by: AHRC programme 'Diaspora, Migration and Identity'
Duration: 1st November 2006-2010
Summary: This project focused on the ways in which (post-)migrant cultural practitioners, performers, and musicians originating from North-Africa and Madagascar are able to use multiple translocal and transnational networks across African, European and wider global spaces. It suggests that artists who create or enter such networks make use of, but go far beyond the traditional 'bi-focal', ethnically and spatially defined communities that link originating and sending countries, as studied in much Diaspora research.  Our research marks a key development in the empirical study of networks, by investigating links between migrant cultural practitioners which develop outside of established cultural/historical ties. http://www.tnmundi.soton.ac.uk  

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Teaching Responsibilities

I coordinate undergraduate Level 2 courses FR2009/FR2011 'French Identities: Individual and Nation'; FR2509/FR2511, 'French Identities: Centre and Periphery'; Honours options 'The Politics of Difference in Contemporary France' and 'Paris: Transnational City of Culture'. At postgraduate level, I am involved in teaching on the M.Litt. in Visual Culture and M.Litt. in Comparative Literature.

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External Responsibilties

Member of Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France Executive Committee (2004-2007); Treasurer (2005-2007)

Member of Editorial Board for Modern and Contemporary France (2009-2011)

Member of International Advisory Board for Performing Islam

Member of Advisory Committee of UK Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies in Scotland

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Publications

Contributions to Journals

Articles

• Kiwan, N. (2012). 'La Convergence des régimes discursifs et l’appartenance religieuse dans l’espace public: le cas de l’islam au Royaume Uni et en France'. Revue de l’Observatoire de la Société Britannique.
• Kiwan, N. (2011). 'New Friends and old foes?: Diversity politics and national identity in Sarkozy's France'. Ethnicities, vol 11, no. 3, pp. 403-407.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1177/1468796811407858
• Kiwan, N. & Meinhof, UH. (2011). 'Music and Migration: A Transnational Approach'. Music and Arts in Action, vol 3, no. 3.
• Kiwan, N. (2009). 'Alterity and Identity in Contemporary Francophone Cultures:: from Organic Hybridity to Politicized Difference'. International Journal of Francophone Studies, vol 12, no. 1, pp. 9-17.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1386/ijfs.12.1.9/2
• Kiwan, SN. (2007). 'Equal Opportunities and Republican Revival: Post-Migrant Politics in Contemporary France (2002-2005)'. International Journal of Francophone Studies, vol 10, no. 1/2, pp. 157-172.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1386/IJFS.10.1AND2.157_1
• Kiwan, SN. (2005). '˜Managing Marginalization: Young French-North Africans and Local Associations’'. Modern and Contemporary France, vol 13, no. 4, pp. 465-481.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1080/09639480500329549

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings

Chapters

• Kiwan, N., Meinhof, UH. & Gibert, M-P (2010). 'Transnational musicians' networks across Africa and Europe'. K Knott & S McLoughlin (eds), in: Diasporas: Concepts, Intersections, Identities. Zed Books, London, United Kingdom.
• Kiwan, SN. (2006). '˜The Citizen and the Subject’'. in: Redefining the French Republic, edited by Alistair Cole and Gino. Raymond, Manchester University Press. Redefining the French Republic, edited by Alistair Cole and Gino. Raymond, Manchester University Press, pp. 97-116.
• Kiwan, SN. & Meinhof, UH. (2006). 'Perspectives on Cultural Diversity: A Discourse Analytical Approach'. in: Transcultural Europe: Cultural Policy in a Changing Europe, edited by U.H. Meinhof and A. Triandafyllidou, Palgrave Macmillan. Palgrave Macmillan, Transcultural Europe: Cultural Policy in a Changing Europe, edited by U.H. Meinhof and A. Triandafyllidou, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 57-81.
• Kiwan, SN. & Kosnick, K. (2006). 'The 'Whiteness' of Cultural Policy in Paris and Berlin'. in: Transcultural Europe: Cultural Policy in a Changing Europe, edited by U.H. Meinhof and A. Triandafyllidou, Palgrave Macmillan. Palgrave Macmillan, Transcultural Europe: Cultural Policy in a Changing Europe, edited by U.H. Meinhof and A. Triandafyllidou, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 105-130.
• Kiwan, SN. (2005). ''Maghrebi Music' In and Beyond the Post-Colonial City'. in: Urban Generations: Post-Colonial Cites, edited by David Richards, Taoufik Agoumy, Taeib Belghazi, Faculty of Letters of Rabat. Urban Generations: Post-Colonial Cites, edited by David Richards, Taoufik Agoumy, Taeib Belghazi, Faculty of Letters of Rabat, pp. 345-354.
• Kiwan, SN. & Kiwan, D. (2005). '˜Citizenship Education: the French and English Experiences’'. in: Young People in Transition: Becoming Citizens, edited by Christopher Pole, Jane Pilcher and John Williams, Palgrave Macmillan. Palgrave Macmillan, Young People in Transition: Becoming Citizens, edited by Christopher Pole, Jane Pilcher and John Williams, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 136-158.

Books and Reports

Books

• Kiwan, N. & Meinhof, UH. (2011). 'Cultural Globalization and Music: African Artists in Transnational Networks'. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke UK.
• Kiwan, N. (2009). 'Identities, Discourses and Experiences: Young people of North African Origin in France'. Manchester University Press, Manchester, United Kingdom.

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