Amina Mire

Amina Mire is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University, Canada. Her research bridges interdisciplinary feminist, anti-racist, and postcolonial frameworks to analyze the biomedicalization of women’s bodies, particularly in relation to anti-ageing and skin-whitening industries.

• Focus on racialization, gender, and ethics in biotechnology
• Current projects examine the globalization of skin-whitening biotechnology and the militarized maternal body

Her publications trace historical and contemporary intersections of colonial medicine, corporate-university partnerships, and consumer regulation of bodies. Recent work explores the discursive construction of ageing as pathological and the social implications of scientific entrepreneurship.

Her scholarship has appeared in Routledge, Toronto Star, The Conversation, and Counterpunch, with a focus on the commodification of whiteness in wellness industries and the stigmatization of pigmentation in medical anthropology.