Notes
[1] Reina Lewis, “Preface,” Veil: Veiling, Representation and Contemporary Art eds. David Baily and Gilane Tawadros (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003), 10.
[2] Joan Wallach Scott. The Politics of the Veil (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007), 21.
[3] Wallach Scott, 41.
[4] Maahum Chaudhry, “Wearing the Hijab—A Fashionably Spiritual Look,” Culture Feature, New American Media (17 October 2006). <http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=7cd6fdd4f9d931345702c7351d6e2345>
[5] Nato Thompson, ed. The Interventionists: Users’ manual for the creative disruption of everyday life (North Adams, Mass.: MassMoCA, distributed by MIT Press, 2004), 15.
[6] Naomi Klein. No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies (New York: Picador, 2000), 30.
[7] Meyda Yegenoglu. Colonial Fantasies: Towards a Feminist Reading of Orientalism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 118-19.
[8] Sara Ahmed. Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality (New York: Routledge, 2000), 116.
[9] Ahmed, 117.
[10] Wallach Scott, 65.
[11] For further discussion of the war of images refer to Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War by Retort [Iain Boal, T.J. Clark, Joseph Matthews, Michael Watts] (New York: Verso, 2005).
[12] Alexandra Sandles, “Babylon and Beyond,” Los Angeles Times (17 December 2009).
[13] Tori Egherman, “Kamran Ashtary: Photography Review,” originally published in Dutch photography magazine, Hollands Licht; reproduced on webpage: <http://ashtaryonline.com/2008/chador/>
[14] The notion of “queer utopian memory” is developed by Jose Esteban Munoz in his book Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity (New York: New York University Press, 2009), p.35-45.
[15] Ibrahim Abraham. “The Veil and the Closet: Islam and the Production of Queer Space,” paper presented at Queer Space: Centres and Peripheries symposium, UTS 2007.
[16] Concept of “place-making” borrowed form Anna Tsing. “The Global Situation,” Cultural Anthropology Vol. 15 No. 3 (August, 2000): 338.