Blood Under the Skin (Documentary film)
Duration: December 2023 - April 2024
Funder: Faculty of Social Sciences KE and Impact Acceleration Fund, University of Nottingham
Project team: Dr Morteza Hashemi in collaboration with Inner Eye Productions
Project summary
This mini documentary will contemplate on Scottish Shia Muslim communities' health activism in Edinburgh. The Imam Hussain Blood Donation Campaign is the largest cross-ethnic charity of British Shia immigrants which has worked in collaboration with NHS Blood and Transplant over the past ten years. The documentary will investigate these main themes: If we understand post-secularism as a form of consciousness about the shortcomings of secularization theory, then (1) does the IHBDC Blood Donation Campaign constitute a post-secular sense of belonging? (2) To what extent do the health activists expect to see donation as a way of being accepted in larger society not despite their religion but because of their religiously supported ritual of blood donation? In other words, this documentary explores British Shias’ lived theological understanding of displacement and citizenship.
Contact: morteza.hashemi@nottingham.ac.uk