School of Social and Political Science

Food Justice Intersections: Finding Common Ground to Grow Movements

The food justice movement in the United States has grown to include a wide range of issues: diet and health, labor, land politics, ecology, and more. This talk dives into a range of specific cases to explore the intersectional dynamics that animate the food justice movement. Food justice movements in California, Colorado, and Florida show how organizers connect food to the politics of food chain work, immigration, and incarceration.

Properties of Color: How Corporations Came to Own the Visible Spectrum

Is it possible for a corporation to own a color? In this talk, Meredith Hall argues that the answer, however improbable, is yes. Hall's research details how individual segments of the visible color spectrum—seemingly timeless and universal elements of nature and culture—came to be understood as objects that a corporation might own.

Co-operative childcare in Derg-era Ethiopia

The Centre of African Studies is delighted to welcome you to the following seminar as part of their seminar series 2023/2024

Radical Democracy in Modern Indian Political Thought — CRITIQUE Book Talk with Tejas Parasher

Radical wars in the Sahel, the digital internationalization and participation in warfare

The Centre of African Studies is delighted to welcome you to the following seminar as part of their seminar series 2023/2024

RTC Talking Methods: Planning for family and intimacy in challenging times

What might the future look like in terms of how family and intimate lives are composed? How do global crises, such as climate change, affect family formation?

RTC Talking Methods Seminar: Planning for family and intimacy in challenging times

Companionship and family planning among young people in Finland, Portugal, and Scotland.

Q-Step Seminar: Systems of living arrangements in the United States: 1850-2021

Dr Ginevra Floridi is a Lecturer in Sociology and Quantitative Methods at the School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh. Her research is in the field of social and family demography, with a focus on intergenerational family transfers and their relationship to inequality and social mobility. She is also interested in social policies related to population ageing, and the consequences of violence exposure for individuals and families.

GENDER.ED event: Sex, Violence and Justice on Campus

Join us for structured comments and open dialogue about sex, violence, and justice at the University of Edinburgh.

How the Radical Right Has Changed Capitalism and Welfare in Europe and the USA

Radical right parties are no longer political challengers on the fringes of party systems; they have become part of the political mainstream across the Western world.

Soldier's Paradise: Militarism in Africa after Empire

Edinburgh Centre for Global History in a joint session with the Centre of African Studies are delighted to invite you to this seminar.

Populism, Rights, and Legality in Canada: Lessons From an Understudied Case

Professor Emily Laxer considers the impact of emerging populisms on rights and legality in Canada and beyond, presented by the Sociology Speaker Series and the Centre of Canadian Studies.