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Naser Ghobadzadeh |
| Postgraduate degree you are enrolled for |
PhD |
| Supervisor |
Dr Louise Chappell |
| When started |
2008 |
| Full time or part time |
Full time |
| Profile of yourself |
Originally from Iran, Naser Ghobadzadeh did his bachelor and Master degrees in political science in Shahid Beheshti (Ex-National) university in Tehran/ Iran. He worked as editor-in-chief of the foreign policy service of the Iranian Students’ News Agency for two years. Then he joined UN agencies in Iran where he worked as communication officer with UNDP and as the head of Information Resource Centre (IRC) in UNICEF office in Tehran.
He has published two books in Persian language and several articles. His research interest areas include feminism, multiculturalism, Islam, and Iran’s politics.
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| Thesis topic or title |
Feminism – Multiculturalism Dispute: Sharia Debate in Australia and Canada |
| Information about your thesis |
Compared with Australian Muslim women, their Canadian counterparts can claim better status, not only in terms of their contribution to electoral politics but also to more unconventional political areas. With its focus on the Sharia debate, this research project investigates one potential explanation for the aforesaid difference. Challenging feminist notions, for example, those of Okin, which observe multiculturalism as an undesirable policy for emancipation, he will argue that multiculturalism facilitates agency of female members of Muslim communities. Comparative examination of the Sharia debate between two secular countries reveals that Canada's more robust multicultural context and policy in terms of dealing with the request to adopt Sharia have not only ultimately culminated in Muslim women’s empowerment but have enhanced their representation in the process of articulating a significant pertinent issue. In contrast, the debate’s lack of multicultural features deprived Australian Muslim women of both a chance to express their understanding of the Sharia and to contribute to an important issue that could well have proven an empowerment opportunity. |
| Publications |
Ghobadzadeh, Naser (2010) 'A multiculturalism-feminism dispute: Muslim women and the Sharia debate in Canada and Australia', Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, 48: 3, 301 — 319 |
