Camila Bassi
British human geographer at Sheffield Hallam University and author on left antisemitism
| Camila Bassi
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| Image |  Camila Bassi, from the No Pasaran Media website |
| Occupation | Human geographer at Sheffield Hallam University; author |
| Known for | Outcast: How Jews Were Banished from the Anti-Racist Imagination (2023) |
Camila Bassi is a British human geographer who works at Sheffield Hallam University and the author of Outcast: How Jews Were Banished from the Anti-Racist Imagination, published by No Pasaran Media in 2023.[1][2] According to her blog, the book won the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism's 2023 prize for best book on contemporary antisemitism.[3]
Academic career
The Sheffield Hallam geography and environment staff page describes her as a human geographer with research and teaching specialisms in social and political geography, and as joint course leader for the BA/BSc Geography.[4] The publisher describes her as a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the university.[5]
According to the publisher, her principal research interests are the geographies of "race", ethnicity and sexuality, and Marxist geographies. Her doctoral research in Birmingham and later research in Shanghai concerned the navigation of sexual and ethnic minority existence in urban political economy. The same biography says she has published academic critiques of the revolutionary left vanguard of England's anti-war movement and of the historical U-turns in the Marxist politics of the Palestinian–Israeli conflict, has explored the deadlock between radical feminists and transgender activists on trans rights, and has written about the mental health crisis in the neoliberal university.[1]
Politics and writing
The publisher says she has been a political activist on the British left since 1996 and that her blog, Anaemic on a Bike, links her academic ideas to wider political currents.[1] In a 2024 interview, Daniel Randall named her among writers who have critiqued "decolonial" theory from broadly universalist perspectives.[6] She reviewed Randall's Confronting Antisemitism on the Left for the publisher.[5]
Outcast
The publisher's description says the book explains how Jewish people's experiences of racism have been cast out of the anti-racist imagination, attributing this to an academic framework that confines racism to a colonial phenomenon of "white over black" domination and to the antisemitic idea of "the Jewish question"; it argues for a more inclusive approach to the study of racism and to emancipatory politics.[7] The university's research archive carries the same abstract, which concludes that the book "makes the case for a genuinely universal politics of human liberation".[2] The publisher's page quotes endorsements from Dr Mitch Rose of Aberystwyth University and Lesley Klaff, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism.[7]
Publications
- Outcast: How Jews Were Banished from the Anti-Racist Imagination (No Pasaran Media, 2023; ISBN 9781915036780)[2]
Awards
- 2023: London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism prize for best book on contemporary antisemitism, for Outcast (as stated on her blog)[3]
See also
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 No Pasaran Media, Camila Bassi, author page, accessed 11 November 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 BASSI, Camila (2023), Outcast how Jews were banished from the anti-racist imagination, Sheffield Hallam University Research Archive, record made live 22 September 2023 (ISBN 9781915036780), accessed 11 November 2026.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Camila Bassi, LCSCA Prize for Best Book on Contemporary Antisemitism 2023: Outcast, Anaemic on a Bike, 24 October 2023, accessed 11 November 2026.
- ↑ Sheffield Hallam University Geography and Environment, Staff Team, accessed 11 November 2026.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 No Pasaran Media, Confronting Antisemitism on the Left: Arguments for Socialists (review by "Dr. Camila Bassi, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, Sheffield Hallam University"), accessed 11 November 2026.
- ↑ Interview with Daniel Randall – 4 July 2024, Left Renewal blog, accessed 11 November 2026.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 No Pasaran Media, Outcast: How Jews Were Banished from the Anti-Racist Imagination, accessed 11 November 2026.