School of Social and Political Science

We complain to God, then to the shaweesh: rethinking unfree labour through the study of refugee workers in Middle Eastern agriculture

This paper revisits the notion of “unfree labour” through the study of displaced Syrians working informally in Middle Eastern agriculture.

The Politics of Waiting, Informal Settlements and Platinum Mining in South Africa

CAS Seminar - The Politics of Waiting, Informal Settlements and Platinum Mining in South Africa

Edinburgh Sociology Seminar: Jamie McCallum

STIS Seminar - Daniel Breslau

Join us for our second seminar of Semester 2! Daniel Breslau (Virginia Tech) will be examining the use of public policies to promote non-carbon emitting energy sources in the US and the markets they create.

Chile's 2021 Presidential Election - the Researching Latin America Series

Join our social sciences panel for an informal discussion on the recent election in Chile. How was the election won, and what comes next?

Virtual Book Launch- The Symbolic State: Minority Recognition, Majority Backlash, and Secession in Multinational Countries, by Karlo Basta

The Symbolic State: Minority Recognition, Majority Backlash, and Secession in Multinational Countries, by Karlo Basta.

The nation-state is a double sleight of hand, naturalizing both the nation and the state encompassing it. No such naturalization is possible in multinational states. To explain why these countries experience political crises that bring their very existence into question, standard accounts point to conflicts over resources, security, and power. This book turns the spotlight on institutional symbolism.

Edinburgh Sociology Seminar: Shamus Khan

CRITIQUE Seminar Feminist Leadership and the Commons: Dilemmas of Power-construction and Vulnerability

Virtual seminar with Camil Ungureanu (Pompeu Fabra).

Social Anthropology Seminar: Life in Debt / Debt to Life: Water Insurgencies in Europe

The paper tracks two forms of debt that conflict at the volatile edge of the financial frontier.

The Consultancy Archive in Africa

CAS Seminar - The Consultancy Archive in Africa

Edinburgh Sociology Seminar: Magdalena Soffia

Less suffering, more dreaming: black lgbtqi poetry disorbiting pain’s paradigm

In this seminar hosted by RACE.ED, tatiana nascimento discusses queer afrodiasporic literature and examines the colonial roots and practice of literary theory and criticism; tatiana nascimento will discuss what it is and how to read literary cuírlombism.