Adiba Faizi awarded the Irene Ethel Cockburn Bursary

Congratulations to Cultural Mediations PhD Candidate Adiba Faizi, who was recently awarded the Irene Ethel Cockburn Bursary. Adiba’s research project titled “The Other Other: Politics of Representation of Self-flagellation as part of the Diasporic Shia Muslim Identity in post-9/11 Western Nation States” aims to trouble the ways we think of religious freedom and multiculturalism in relation to self-flagellation and islamophobia under liberal governance. Taking the instance of self-flagellation in Shiism, Adiba’s research questions what it means to be a multicultural and a neoliberal subject within the borders of a Western Nation State. This bursary was established in 1991 and is derived from a legacy of the late Irene Ethel Cockburn.