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The Racism and Racialisation PhD group, hosted by the Sarah Parker Remond Centre, is comprised of UCL postgraduate research students working on issues surrounding race and racism. This student-led network welcomes postgraduate researchers from all departments and schools across UCL. The group offers a space for reading and discussion groups, work in progress presentations, writing and social spaces, and political and intellectual debate. If you are interested in joining the group, please email Luke de Noronha and Paige Patchin.
Members
PhD: Help oppose the ongoing intellectual, political and cultural wars being waged against society by advocates of institutional racism within and outside the academy.
PhD: Don Cherry (1936-1995), a multi-instrumentalist best known as a jazz trumpeter.
PhD: Migrating Optics. Radical documentaries on labour.
PhD: How the historical and socio-cultural narrative of race manifests in today’s facial recognition and surveillance technologies.
PhD: Archival material and Oral History to explore Indian Workers’ Associations, the Asian Youth Movements and Southall Black Sisters in the 1970s.
PhD: Nigerian early modernism and its epistemological foundations
PhD: A history of East London’s heritage industry, c.1973-2008.
PhD: normalisation of Islamophobic political discourse and anti-Muslim prejudice in Czechia.
PhD: Anarchic Spider-Man: The legacy of Anancy and the creation of new identities in the work of Black British writers of the Caribbean diaspora.
PhD: This Must Be the Place: Mapping Artistic Kinship and Economic Change in Downtown New York, 1973–1987, explores the relationship between the artistic community of Downtown New York and the transformation to a FIRE (finance, insurance, real estate) economy.
PhD: A comparative study of British and German childhood at the height of European Imperialism.
PhD: Explores the nuances of Blackness, feminism, and escapism with concentrated thematic focuses on isolation and kinship in contemporary Black British women’s literature.
PhD: Explores a live-streaming street crime app, called Citizen, and its impact on neighbourhoods in New York City.
PhD: Aims to trace, analyse and compare various notions of ‘Afrosurrealism’, with a focus on US-American contexts from the early twentieth century onwards.
PhD: Explores the intersection between archaeology, identity, racism and settler-colonialism in contemporary Israeli-Palestinian society as well as the often overlooked role of historic archaeological engagement in contemporary stakeholder claims of heritage ownership.
PhD: ‘Everyday Things: Visualising Black Millennial Experiences On The White City Estate (Geography Practice-Related PhD)’ visualises the experiences of a kinship group of Black millennials living on the White City Estate in Shepherds Bush, West London. The project combines two main methodologies.
PhD: “State Project and Education: The construction of National Identity and the legitimation of an europeanising memory in Chile”, which aims to analyse, through the revision of specific education policies for the teaching of local and global history since independence to date, the implicit influence of political ideologies and different state projects on the construction and legitimisation of a europeanising imaginary of national identity in Chile.
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