Going the distance or being grounded at home? Mobilities after COVID-19
Professor Lapointe is looking at tourism from the mobility angle to raise questions about the post-COVID-19 era. Tourism has been a rapidly growing industry for...
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TOURISM AND THE WAR AGAINST A VIRUS? (Also in Spanish)
Professor Korstanje explores the political biographies of mobilities such as tourism, stressing their entanglement in cultures of imperialism and war to date. To write...
When Diaspora meets Pandemic
Remus Gabriel Anghel is Senior Researcher at the Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities, Cluj, Romania. His latest book is Transnational return and Social...
‘Keep your poor and hungry’? European citizenship and changing access to welfare rights
Roxana Barbulescu is University Academic Fellow at University of Leeds. Her research examines social inclusion and postnational nationhood through citizenship, migrant integration, asylum and anti-racist...
Masters Research Projects with Third Sector Partners
In the final post of 2019, three Masters students in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds write about their...
Christianity and Queer World-making in Kenya
In this post, Adriaan van Klinken reflects on the politics of sexuality in Kenya, often misrepresented by Eurocentric accounts of Africa as 'Europe’s Other'. Van Klinken...
‘Decolonial Dialogues’ at the University of Leeds
Dr Sarah Marusek of the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds reflects on a recent dialogue about decolonisation held at...
‘Every Little Helps’ on this Rugged Road to a More Inclusive University
Doctoral Researcher Izram Chaudry reflects on obstacles to the attainment and retention of BME staff and students in higher education. I recently revisited my ‘old...
Through the Window Again: Modernity and the Holocaust, 30 Years Later
Written by Dr. Jack Palmer In this post, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Jack Palmer discusses two events, held during the week of 9th-13th September 2019,...
Brexiting reason: On Boris Johnson’s populist avarice
By Dr Rodanthi Tzanelli In this post, Rodanthi reflects on the problematic populist uses of popular-cultural personas by the UK’s Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, in...