Photo of Julie BillaudJulie Billaud

Selected publications

Article

Billaud, Julie (2018) Marriage “sharia style”: everyday practices of Islamic morality in England. Contemporary Islam. ISSN 1872-0218

Billaud, Julie (2018) The circular logic of humanitarian expertise. Public Anthropologist [weblog article, 8 October 2018]. ISSN 2589-1715

Billaud, Julie (2018) [Afterword] A post-human rights anthropology of human rights. PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review. ISSN 1081-6976

Billaud, Julie (2017) La circulation du référentiel islamique en Europe: espace public, éthique ordinaire et economies morales. Archives des Sciences Sociales des Religions, 179. pp. 195-212. ISSN 0335-5985

Billaud, Julie (2017) Mariage 'chariah style': pratiques quotidiennes de l’éthique islamique en Angleterre. Archives des Sciences Sociales des Religions, 179. pp. 212-232. ISSN 0335-5985

Billaud, Julie (2016) Snapshots of British Islam: exploring self, identity and the good ethical life in the global megalopolis. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 45 (5). pp. 503-528.

Billaud, Julie (2016) « Les femmes font mauvais usage de la démocratie ». Visibilités des jeunes Afghanes et paniques morales dans Kaboul post Talibans. Métropolitiques [weblog article, 29 June 2012].

Billaud, Julie (2016) Cologne: why cultural explanations are dangerous for feminism. Allegra Lab: Anthropology, Law, Art & World [weblog article, January 27 2016]. ISSN 2343-0168

Cowan, Jane K and Billaud, Julie (2015) Between learning and schooling: the politics of human rights monitoring at the Universal Periodic Review. Third World Quarterly, 36 (5). pp. 1175-1190. ISSN 0143-6597

Billaud, Julie and Castro, Julie (2013) Whores and Niqabées: The sexual boundaries of French nationalism. French Politics, Culture; Society, 31 (2). ISSN 1537-6370

Billaud, Julie (2012) Suicidal performances: voicing discontent in a girls’ dormitory in Kabul. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 36 (2). pp. 264-285. ISSN 0165-005X

Billaud, Julie (2012) The making of modern Afghanistan: reconstruction, transnational governance and gender politics in the new Islamic republic. Anthropology of the Middle East, 7 (1). pp. 18-37. ISSN 1746-0719

Billaud, Julie (2009) Visible under the Veil: Dissimulation, Performance and Agency in an Islamic Public Space. International Journal of Women's Studies, 11 (1). pp. 120-135. ISSN 0703-8240

Billaud, Julie (2008) [Review] Elaheh Rostami-Povey (2007) Afghan women: identity and invasion. Feminist Theory, 9 (3). pp. 370-372. ISSN 1464-7001

Billaud, Julie (2008) Occupied Women's Lives: Multiple Experiences, Multiple Consciounesses. Elaheh Rostami Povey. Afghan Women: Identity and Invasion. European Journal of Women's Studies, 15 (2). pp. 139-142.

Book

Billaud, Julie (2015) Kabul Carnival: gender politics in postwar Afghanistan. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. ISBN 9780812246964

Book Section

Billaud, Julie (2018) Political awakening. In: The international encyclopedia of anthropology. Wiley. ISBN 9781118924396

Cowan, Jane K and Billaud, Julie (2017) The 'public' character of the Universal Periodic Review: contested concept and methodological challenge. In: Niezen, Ronald and Sapignoli, Maria (eds.) Palaces of hope: the anthropology of global organizations. Cambridge studies in law and society . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 106-126. ISBN 9781107127494

Billaud, Julie and De Lauri, Antonio (2015) Humanitarian theater: the ordinary and the carnivalesque in Afghanistan. In: De Lauri, Antonio (ed.) The Politics of humanitarianism: power, ideology, aid. IB Tauris. ISBN 9781780768304

Billaud, Julie (2015) Keepers of the 'truth': producing 'transparent' documents for the universal periodic review. In: Charlesworth, Hilary and Larking, Emma (eds.) Human rights and the universal periodic review: rituals and ritualism. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 63-84. ISBN 9781107086302

Billaud, Julie (2013) Ethics and affects in British Shari’ah councils, 'a simple way of getting to paradise'. In: Göle, Nilüfer (ed.) Islam and Public Controversy in Europe. Ashgate. ISBN 9781472413130

Billaud, Julie (2011) Islamic Difference and the Return of Feminist Universalism. In: Tryandifillidou, Anne, Modood, Tariq and Meer, Nasar (eds.) European Multiculturalism: Cultural, Religious and Ethnic Challenges. Edinburgh University Press, pp. 116-141. ISBN 9780748644513

Thesis

Billaud, Julie (2010) Malalay's sisters: women's public visibility in 'post war/reconstruction' Afghanistan. Doctoral thesis (DPhil), University of Sussex.

Other

Dalakoglou, Dimitris and Billaud, Julie (2013) State, violence, infrastructures and public spaces in European periphery. Allegra Lab.