I joined UEL in 2013, after periods working at the Universities of Wolverhampton, Birmingham and Aston. I worked in the areas of: race and racisms; sexualities; globalisation; the war on terror; political disengagement. My published books include: Tales of Dark-Sinned Women (UCL, 1998); Race and Power, with John Gabriel and Stephen Small (Routledge, 2001); Sexuality and Society (Routledge, 2002); Traffic (Pluto, 2005); Dangerous Brown Men, Exploiting Sex, Violence and Feminism in the War on Terror (Zed, 2008); Ethnicities and Values in a Changing World (Ashgate, 2009).

Teaching undergraduate and postraduate courses, including inthe areas of gender, ethnicity and urgan cultures.

• Changing racisms
• The war on terror and the securitisation of everday life
• Political disengagement and popular cynicism
• Sexualities
• Austerity-culture and austerity-politics

‘Still banging on about neoliberalism? What can racial neoliberalism tell us about Britain?’, chapter in The State of Race, book edited by Virinder Kalra, Nisha Kapoor and James Rhodes, Palgrave, forthcoming 2013

Special Issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies, ‘Spaces of hope: public scholarship and the politics of race’, co-editor with Karim Murji, forthcoming 2013

‘Living with ourselves: politics, scholarship and the place of private sociology’, article in Special Issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies, ‘Spaces of Hope’, forthcoming 2013

‘All broken, but in different ways: regional narratives in the English riots’, article in Journal of Cultural Research, April 2013

Bhattacharyya, Gargi; Cowles, James; Garner, Steve; Hussain, Ajmal (2012) Communities, Centres, Connections, Disconnections: Some Reflections on the Riots in Birmingham, socresonline February 2012

• ‘Sex, shopping and security, Thinking about Feminist Media Studies again’, Feminist Media Studies, volume 11, issue 1, 2011

Books

• Ethnicities and Values in a Changing World, edited volume, Ashgate 2009.
• Dangerous Brown Men: Exploiting Sex, Violence and Feminism in the Long War, Zed Press, 2008, pp170, ISBN 9781842778784
• Traffick, the illicit movement of people and things, Pluto, 2005, pp220. ISBN 0745320473
• Sexuality and Society, an introduction, Routledge, 2002, pp193. ISBN 0415229030
• Race and Power, globalised racisms in the twenty-first century, with John Gabriel and Stephen Small, Routledge, 2001, pp186. ISBN 041521971X
• Tales of Dark-Skinned Women, Race, Gender and Global Culture, UCL press, 1998, pp390.

Essays in Edited Collections

• ‘Will these emergencies never end? Some first thoughts about the impact of economic and security crises on everyday life’, chapter in book New Femininities, Postfeminism, Neoliberalism and Subjectivity, edited by Rosalind Gill and Christina Scharff, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

• ‘Globalising racism and myths of the other in the war on terror’, chapter for book Palestine as a State of Exception, edited by Ronit Lentin, Zed Press 2008

• ‘Wars on our doorstep – Islamicising ‘race’ and militarising everyday life‘, chapter in book Race and State, edited by Alana Lentin and Ronit Lentin, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006, ISBN 1847180019

• ‘Rats with wings’, chapter in London from Punk to Blair, edited by Andrew Gibson and Joe Kerr, London, Reaktion Press, 2003. pp213-220. ISBN 1861891717

• 'Because it gives me speed - travel, freedom and revenge in Indian families', chapter in Temporalities: Autobiography in a postmodern age, Jan Campbell, Janet Harbord, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2002, pp141-151. ISBN 071905575X

• ‘Fashion’, entry in the Dictionary of Race and Ethnic Studies, edited by John Solomos and David Goldberg, Oxford, Blackwell, 2002, pp416-422. ISBN 0631206167

• 'Resisting Deportation - campaigning tactics' with John Gabriel, chapter in book, Rethinking Anti-Racisms: From Theory to Practice edited by Floya Anthias and Cathie Lloyd, London, Routledge, 2002. pp149-165. ISBN 0415183383

• ‘Skin and Flesh’, chapter in Contested Bodies, edited by Ruth Holliday, London, Routledge, 2001. pp36-47. ISBN 0415196361

• ‘Animals, Fun, Public Toilets, Sewage’, entries in City A-Z, book edited by Steve Pile and Nigel Thrift, London, Routledge, 2000. ISBN 0415207282

• ‘Metropolis of the Midlands’, chapter in Urban Space and Representation, edited by Liam Kennedy and Maria Balshaw, London, Pluto Press, 2000. pp162-174. ISBN 0745313493

• ‘Teaching race in cultural studies: a ten-step programme of personal development’, chapter in Ethnic and Racial Studies Today, edited by John Solomos and Martin Bulmer, London, Routledge, 1999, pp73-84. ISBN 0415181739

• ‘Riding Multiculturalism’, chapter in Multicultural States, edited by David Bennett, London, Routledge, 1998. pp252-266. ISBN 0415121590

• 'The Fabulous Adventures of the Mahogony Princesses', chapter for Black British Feminisms, edited by Heidi Mirza, London, Routledge, 1997. pp240-252. ISBN 0415152895

• 'Racial Formations of Youth in Late Twentieth Century England' with John Gabriel, chapter in Youth In Society, edited by Jeremy Roche and Stanley Tucker, London, Sage, 1997. pp68-80. ISBN 0761753736

• ‘Negotiating Cultural Differences’ with John Gabriel, chapter in book, Overseas Clinical Elective, edited by Renee Adomat, Oxford, Blackwell Science, 1997. pp77-91. ISBN 0632041021

• 'The Exotic White Man', paper presented to Gender and Imperialism Conference, University of Birmingham, May 1995. The proceedings of this conference are published as a special journal issue and a book, Kunapipi and Imperialism and Gender: Constructions of Masculinity, edited by C.E.Gittings, (New Lambton, NSW and Hebdon Bridge, West Yorkshire: Dangaroo Press, 1996), pp123-137. Versions of this paper have been presented at Birkbeck College, London and the University of Warwick. ISBN 1-871049-33-4

• ‘Who Fancies Pakis?’ Pamella Bordes and the Problems of Exoticism in Multiracial Britain - chapter in Political Gender, edited by Sally Ledger, Josephine McDonagh, Jane Spencer, Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1994. pp85-97. ISBN 0-7450-1562-X.

• ‘Offence is the Best Defence - Race and Pornography’, chapter in Rethinking Sexual Harassment, edited by Clare Brant and Yun Lee Too, London: Pluto,.1994. pp82-96. ISBN 0 7453 0838 4

Articles in Refereed Journals

• Bhattacharyya, Gargi; Cowles, James; Garner, Steve; Hussain, Ajmal (2012) Communities, Centres, Connections, Disconnections: Some Reflections on the Riots in Birmingham, socresonline February 2012

•  ‘Sex, shopping and security, Thinking about Feminist Media Studies again’, Feminist Media Studies, volume 11, issue 1, 2011

•  ‘Spectatorship and the War on Terror: Creating Consensus through Global Audiences’, Special Issue of Globalizations, ‘Globalization, Ethics and the War on Terror’, vol 6, no. 1, March 2009

•  ‘South Asian Cultural Studies - lessons from back home’, South Asian Popular Cultures, July 2003. pp3-12. ISSN 14746689

•  ‘In defence of amateurism’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, May 2003. pp523-527. ISSN 01419870

•  ‘Sex, Race and Meat - Cultural Studies, Cultural Materialism and the end of life as we know it’, essay in Keywords, 1, 1998, pp47-59. ISBN 0953150305

•  'Black Skin, White Boards - learning to be the 'race' lady in British H.E.', paper in Parallax, January 1996, pp161-172. ISSN 13534645

•  ‘Wogs South of Calais - Rethinking Racial Boundaries for Britain in Europe’, article published in Paragraph, volume 16, No.1, March 1993, pp23-33. ISSN 0264-8334

Other Journal Articles

•  The Apna Generation, an Interview with Gurinder Chaddha, with John Gabriel, in Third Text, Summer 1994, pp55-64. ISSN 0952-8822

•  'Cultural Education in Britain', article in Oxford Literary Review, Vol.13, nos 1-2, 1991, pp4-19. ISSN 03051498

Other publications

• Garner, Steve  and Gargi Bhattacharyya (2011)  ‘Poverty, ethnicity and place’, Joseph Rowntree Foundation programme paper: Poverty and ethnicity, May 2011

Keywords

Race and racism; sexuality and gender; war on terror; political participation; austerity and social justice