School of Social and Political Science

Book launch: Dr Jeevan Sharma’s “Political Economy of Social Change and Development in Nepal” (Bloomsbury, 2021)

You are warmly invited to join us in celebrating Dr Jeevan’s Sharma’s latest book: Political Economy of Social Change and Development in Nepal.

Event postponed: More-Than-Human Memory: Engaging the Non-Human in the Aftermath of Genocide

This event has been postponed until the 23/24 academic year.

African Writers’ Lives: Focus on Leila Aboulela

Mothering in crisis - Childrearing and climate change

Through oral history interviews with Australian mothers, Pascoe's research examines the impacts of climate change and climate-fuelled disasters upon childrearing in the present and the recent past.

Author-Meets-Critics: The Cruel Optimism of Racial Justice

Co-sponsored RACE.ED and CRITIQUE Event with Nasar Meer (The University of Edinburgh) on his book, The Cruel Optimism of Racial Justice

Establishing trauma-informed services for people exploited by trafficking

The History of Statistics and the Sciences of Subjectivity

Reimagining Platforms

Reimagining Platforms is a one-day symposium that will bring academics and community and local partners together to develop methods and concepts to analyse the different futures and possibilities of platforms and platform economies

Patchwork Ethnography

CRITIQUE-Open Government Partnership Scotland Event: What Next For Democracy?

Book Launch - Legitimation as Political Practice: Crafting Everyday Authority in Tanzania and Beyond

SKAPE seminar: Materiality, policy and power in advertising markets: ad servers and header bidding

We are excited to welcome Donald MacKenzie (Sociology, University of Edinburgh) who will deliver the second talk in this year’s SKAPE seminar series.