Event type:

In person

Date & time:

27 Oct 2021, 12:00 – 13:00

Race, Class, Youth and the City

The second webinar in our Youth and the City webinar series focuses on the inter-related issues of race, class, youth and city. It will be particularly useful for those interested in youth studies, urban sociology, sociology, human geography, race, class and urban planning.

Three young adults on a stone bench reflected in a puddle at Granary Square, Kings Cross.
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Race, Class, Youth and the City

27 Oct 2021, 12:00 – 13:00

Professor Anoop Nayak

Professor of Social & Cultural Geography

Newcastle University

His research interests are in: race and ethnic studies; youth, culture and social Class; and gender, masculinities and social Change. Anoop has published widely in these areas and is author of Race, Place and Globalization: Youth Cultures in a Changing World (2003 Oxford: Berg).

He is co-author with Mary Jane Kehily of a joint monograph Gender, Youth and Culture:  Global Masculinities and Femininities (2013 2nd Ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan), and has published a social theory book on spatial relations of power with Alex Jeffrey entitled Geographical Thought (Routledge, 2013).  

Anoop is currently leading a funded project exploring ‘Young People, Diversity and Belonging in a Post-Brexit Age’ (REA) and an ESRC co-production award exploring masculinities and care, ‘Boys to Men:  Developing New Templates for Masculinities in Primary Schools’.

Dr Tyler Denmead

Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge and at Queens’ College.

Further information

Ticketing

Pre-booking essential

Cost

Free

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Organiser

Avril Keating

a.keating@ucl.ac.uk