The Intersectionality Research Hub at Concordia University undertakes, mobilizes and influences public perception and policy on emergent forms of racism-sexism in the North American context, within a larger analytical framework of violence. Dr. Jiwani is the Concordia University Research Chair (CURC) on Intersectionality, Violence, and Resistance. Her work as a scholar and advocate has focused on
intersectional violence(s) for the last three decades. Beginning with her research advocacy work with the Committee for Racial Justice (in Vancouver), the Canadian Anti-Racism Education and Research organization where she formulated one of the first Canadian brochures on identifying and dealing with racism, her work at the National Film Board in the Women’s Program (Pacific Region), research and directorship at the Feminist, Research, Education and Development and Action Centre (FREDA), as well as her research association with the Centre for Research on Violence Against Women and Children (University of Western Ontario), she has dealt with issues of gendered and racist violence, singularly and through an intersectional framework of analysis, focusing on the interplay of race, gender, age, sexuality, disabilities. Dr. Jiwani’s authored and co-authored publications, which include over 60 articles and chapters (many of which have been reprinted) a monograph, as well as several edited anthologies, have utilized an intersectional approach and demonstrated the imbricated nature of different forms of violence. From the symbolic and discursive violence of mediated representations to the actual psychological and physical violence of racism and sexism, her work has sought to make visible the linkage between these intertwined spheres of social life. At the same time, through published policy reports and opinion articles in the press, interviews on radio and television, and as an invited keynote speaker and plenary presenter, she has circulated her research at various levels of society, emphasizing the role of the media in perpetuating and legitimizing various definitions and forms of violence.
