Nalini Mohabir
Biography
Nalini Mohabir is an associate professor in the Department of Geography, Planning, and Environment at Concordia University. She is also the director of the at Concordia.鈥疢ohabir teaches in the fields of feminist and postcolonial geographies. She is a Caribbeanist, with a focus on Asian indentureship. Her work on indentureship is concerned with questions of diasporic return and its (im)possibilities; the implications of pivotal historical turning points for Afro-Indo Caribbean relations; and visual representation of indentureship and its legacies.
She has published articles in various journals and she has been working with long-time collaborator鈥疪onald Cummings (McMaster University), on a series of publications about the Sir George Williams student protest鈥� and an upcoming anthology on the visualities of the protest.鈥疶ogether with Cummings, she is the co-editor of Topia: A Canadian journal of Cultural Studies. She is also the Caribbean area editor for the Journal of Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas and a member of the editorial board of Trans Asia Photography.