Corinne Squire, Cigdem Esin and Chila Burman

Corinne Squire

Corinne Squire is professor of social sciences and codirector of the Centre for Narrative Research, University of East London. Publications include Doing Narrative Research (Sage, 2008, with Andrews and Tamboukou), Matters of Feeling (Palgrave, 2006, with 6, Radstone and Treacher), HIV Technologies in International Perspective (Palgrave, 2010, with Davis) and HIV in South Africa (Routledge, 2007).

Law and Social Sciences
UEL
4-6 University Way
London
E162RD
United Kingdom

Email: c.squire@uel.ac.uk
Web: http://www.uel.ac.uk/lss/staff/corinnesquire/

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Cigdem Esin

Cigdem Esin is a senior lecturer in Psychosocial Studies. She completed her PhD at UEL. Her doctoral research was on sexual constructions in the narratives of educated young women and their mothers in modern Turkey.She has been working in research projects on gender, employment, women's movements and organisations and sexuality since the mid-1990s. Her current research explores the self narratives of academic immigrants living in London, with a focus on the shifts in these narratives in relation to the multiple social-political contexts in which academic immigrants position themselves.

Law and Social Sciences
UEL
4-5 University Way
London E16 2RD
United Kingdom

Email: c.esin@uel.ac.uk
Web: http://www.uel.ac.uk/lss/staff/cigdemesin/


Chila Burman

Since the mid-1980s Burman has been exploring the experiences and aesthetics of Asian femininity in paintings and installations, photography and printmaking, video and film. In my more recent works, this theme has taken on a new power and vibrancy. She is currently making a new body of work to draw all of these together and to develop the ideas and images contained in the new cultural contexts of national and international politics in the twenty-first century. Challenging stereotypical assumptions of Asian women, her work is informed by popular culture, Bollywood, fashion, found objects, the politics of femininity the celebration of feminity; self-portraiture exploring the production of her own sexuality and dynamism; the relationship between popular culture and high art; gender and identity politics.

Law and Social Sciences
UEL
4-6 University Way
London E16 2RD
United Kingdom

Email: c.burman@sky.com
Web: http://www.chila-kumari-burman.co.uk/