School of Social and Political Science

Feminist Protests in Africa

In recent years and world over, citizens have been articulating their demands for greater social justice, access or protection of rights and democracy through protests.  Our recent symposium published in the journal Politics & Gender provides often-excluded accounts of past and contemporary feminist protests in Africa.

Sub-State Nations’ Struggle for Recognition in the 21st Century: The Case of Québec

Africa Film & Arts Club: Open Mic & Film Screening

An evening celebrating the vibrancy of African entertainment through an open mic followed by a screening of the film Veve.

Seminar: Statelessness and Citizenship Conundrum in South Asia

Reflections on practice: Windrush 'insider' research experiences

What can life stories and narratives tell us about the Windrush generation, their contributions to British social and cultural spheres, and the impact the sojourn has on them and their successive generations?

Articulating a digital transition in infrastructure maintenance: How inspection robots and innovation policies co-evolve?

Mafiapoetics. Why Mafiosi write and how they impersonate literary theory

Why are the middle classes and the art world obsessed with mafias?

Postcolonial Pathologies: The Art in the Science of Autopsy Narratives in Kenya

Writing for Non-Academic Audiences

In this workshop, we will hear from editors and authors who work for and with publications targeted at a general audience.

After their presentations, there will be an opportunity for discussion.

Incising amaXhosa: states of personhood in male circumcision

How do circumcision practices -- enculturated into a phenomenal rite of passage -- coalesce emergent and existing states of Xhosa personhood?

Lives in African Science: epistemic space and dynamism in careers of Kenyan researchers

Relevance and Relation of Decolonial Studies in Methodology

This seminar will explore decolonial perspectives in crafting research design.