Coping with and resisting everyday inequalities in the UK
Sue Ansarie is a Research Assistant and has mostly worked with community action groups in London to address issues such as housing and displacement of working class communities. I am about to tell you a true story. This is not about glory or pity. This is to reveal inequalities I faced growing up as a …
This post is from Annelieke Driessen, an Assistant Professor of Medical Anthropology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Title illustration by Bettina Klein. A fieldwork memory On a Thursday afternoon in one of the three care homes in the Netherlands where I spent time doing my doctoral research, Mrs Steen and I …
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This post is written by Amal Latif, A PhD candidate in Social Anthropology based in India, researching gender and migration. "I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. I don't want any greatness for it, particularly a greatness born of blood and falsehood. I want to keep it alive …
This piece was anonymised and certain details were omitted to avoid negative repercussions on the careers of the authors. The summer after I defended my PhD and obtained a unanimous high distinction, I felt I was on top of the world. I was feeling a mix of excitement, wonder and a sense of being part …
Continue reading "Disillusions of an early career researcher in mass-produced academia"
This is a guest contribution from Siobhán Healy-Cullen, A PhD Candidate in Psychology with a critical social psychology perspective, based at Massey University, New Zealand. I self-identify as a cisgender heterosexual female, and I am in a monogamous long term relationship. On account of this, my sexuality and sexual identity is deemed to be ‘healthy’ …
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This is a guest post from Gabriela Greenaway, an MA student in Applied Linguistics at UCL and co-editor of Rethinking Matters. Which box shall I tick? She asks. Sorry, what? The weary blue eyes of the midwife after a long shift look at me, then my baby, then my partner. Which box shall I tick? …
Continue reading "Which box to tick? A conversation with whiteness"
This is a guest contribution from Sibo Kanobana, a Phd Candidate in sociolinguistics, employability, and migration. “Your name is not on the list”, she said, “I can’t let you in”. She wasn’t unfriendly but made clear that I wasn’t supposed to be there, that I should leave. A few weeks ago I got an e-mail …
Continue reading "Who is not on the list? Navigating white academia"
This month we have a contribution from educator and thinker, Arnaldo. He currently teaches in London where he also researches and writes about the London Latinx community. It is my first time in a London police station. My nerves are crackling like water on hot grease, however, on the surface I am stoic. I have the impression …
Our third guest contribution is from Will Nyerere Plastow, a scriptwriter and filmmaker, currently working at the BBC. I stepped out of the ring my brain aching and my mouth tasting of blood. For the final round I'd had tunnel vision, trying to beat down my rapidly tiring opponent. But I hadn't done enough. I …
This is a guest contribution from Emma Brooks who is currently a PhD student at UCL Institute of Education researching antenatal care in London. Piotr appeared to have it all: he worked full-time as a builder and was happily married with two young children. At the beginning of each pre-entry ESOL class he would …
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Disruptive Inequalities 