In the poem Dr Rodanthi Tzanelli places her critical lens on a local instance of human suffering to reflect on the global refugee crisis. Hostipitality[1] Hostility and hospitality make the best friends in the margins of Europe. We learn on the evening news: the spectacle of tragedy too grand to...
Izram Chaudry, who is studying a PhD at the School of Sociology & Social Policy with Professor Nick Emmel and Dr Rodanthi Tzanelli has published an article on Educational Philosophy and Theory. His article, “I felt like I was being watched”: The hypervisibility of Muslim students in higher education“, focuses on...
From the beginning of April, we bring to you a unique boxset of calamitous recordings to keep your spirit agile and (hopefully) your abs toned. As we go through one of the most unusual évènements in modern global history, Rodanthi is reporting on social and cultural phenomena that the enforced...
Dr. Philipp Korom, University of Graz, Austria, is the principal investigator in the project “National and Regional Elites in Austrian Politics” (2019-present) and former co-principal investigator in the project “Academic Superelites in Economics and Sociology” (2016-2019), both supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). He previously worked at the Max...
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 Change. Hierarchies Identities and Ideas. Anghel R., Fauser M. and P. Boccagni (eds.) London: Anthem Press. 2019. [This post is also published in Romanian in...
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 policies and practices. Adrian Favell is Chair in Sociology and Social Theory at University of Leeds http://www.adrianfavell.com/ The freedom of movement of persons in the...
Anca Gheaus is a moral and political philosopher at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. She is mostly interested in gender justice and in justice in childrearing. One of her current projects is to write a book about gender norms: what is wrong with them and how to change them....
Lucy Mayblin’s new book Asylum and Impoverishment. Social Policy and Slow Violence, Routledge 2020 revisits Britain’s policy towards asylum seekers and discusses how the insufficient financial support they receive puts them amongst the most deprived and impoverished in society. Dr Lucy Mayblin is Senior Lecturer at the University of Sheffield....
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 the university. She reaffirms the importance, topicality and complexity of this theme by articulating several critical views expressed by scholars from various disciplines and institutions...
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 stomping ground’, Leeds Beckett University, for the Annual Race Lecture organised by the University’s Race Equality Forum. The keynote speaker was Mr Amatey Doku, a...
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