Discussing gender: an interview with Dr Suki Ali

by Aisling Sweeney, second-year sociology undergraduate. Dr Suki Ali is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the LSE. She previously taught at Goldsmiths College, the Institute of Education and the University of Greenwich. Her main theoretical interests focus upon feminist postcolonial theory, psychoanalysis, research methodologies, visual culture, and theories of identification and embodiment. Her work centralises the interplay between gender, sexualities, ‘race’ and class and she has published work that engages these issues through research in education and family life. I caught up with her to get some of her views on the complex field that is gender.