Nadia Fadil

Nadia Fadil works as an Associate Professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at KU Leuven. She holds a broad interest on the articulations and transformations of religion and race in a global context. Her own research centers on Islam in Europe (with France, Belgium and the Netherlands as ethnographic site), which she examines both as a living tradition as well as an object of regulation. She draws on this empirical question to reflect on a vast set of theoretical issues such as religion and spirituality, subjectivity and power, ethical selfhood, the body, postcoloniality, governmentality, race and secularism. Additionally, and throughout her different projects, she also works on reimagining ethnography as a site of possibilities, collaboration and solidarity, around which she has launched and co-organizes the seminar series Doing Research Otherwise.

Her publications include Secular Bodies, Affects and Emotions. European configurations (with Monique Scheer and Birgitte Scheplern Johansen, Bloomsbury 2019), Radicalization in Belgium and the Netherlands. Critical perspectives on Violence and Security (with Martijn de Koning and Francesco Ragazzi, IB Tauris 2019) and a special issue in Contemporary Islam "Envisioning Hijra. The Ethics of leaving and dwelling of European Muslims" (with Annelies Moors and Karel Arnaut, 2021).