School of Social and Political Science

The Call to Deviance: Queer Theory’s Inheritance from the Social Sciences

This paper draws on Love’s recent book Underdogs: Social Deviance and Queer Theory to consider uptake of midcentury deviance studies in classic queer theory.

The geography of research places: spatial and temporal logics

A Prayer for the World: Reassessing Ethnography, Audience, and Purpose in 2022

Munro Lecture - Dr Paige West

In this Munro Lecture, Dr Paige West reflects on 10 years of 'doing anthropology differently' in collaboration with a non-governmental organization in Papua New Guinea.

Gendered Surplus People, Food Security, and Maladaptation to Climate Change in Northern Ghana

CRITIQUE-PTRG Seminar: For the Many, Not the Few: Anti-Oligarchic Republicanism

Questing Excellence in Academia: A Tale of Two Universities

We are delighted to invite you to a STIS/ISSTI special lecture by our distinguished guests
Knut H Sørensen (NTNU) and Sharon Traweek (UCLA) They will be discussing their book:

"Questing Excellence in Academia: A Tale of Two Universities"

Paper cuts and paper trails: tracing violence in prison administrative processes

Dr Katerina Dalacoura: The International Thought of Turkish Islamists: History, Civilisation and Nation

The Futures of Kinship

The anthropology of kinship and relatedness has a long and storied history – but what are its futures?

Breaking ‘climate silence’ in everyday relationships: the environmentalist

Climate change - like death - is uncomfortable and commonly avoided in the conversations of day-to-day life in the UK. This ‘silence’ impedes public debate about, and civic participation in, different ways to tackle climate change.

An intersectional approach to the community-building aspect of hashtag feminism in Brazil

This talk focuses on the  community-building aspect of digital feminist mobilisations  in Brazil and its inequalities, unravelling feelings of belonging and alienation that result from social organizing around a common cause and the ways in which these feelings relate to the histories of feminist activism more broadly.