Akwugo Emejulu
Prof Akwugo Emejulu | |
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 Akwugo Emejulu testifies at the Equal Opportunities Committee of theScottish Parliamentin 2015 | |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Strathclyde University of Glasgow American University |
| Thesis | Community development as discourse: analysing discourses, identities and social practices in the US and the UK(2010) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Edinburgh University of Warwick |
Akwugo Emejuluis a professor of sociology at theUniversity of Warwick.She focuses on political sociology, including inequalities across Europe and grassroots campaigns for women of colour.
Early life and education
[edit]Emejulu completed her bachelor's degree in political science at theAmerican University.[1]She joined theUniversity of Glasgowfor her graduate studies, earning aMaster of Philosophyin Urban Policy. She moved to theUniversity of Strathclydefor her PhD, which she was awarded in 2010. Her PhD thesis considered community development as a discourse, identities and social practises in the US and UK.[2]
Career
[edit]Emejulu worked as a community organiser in theUnited StatesandUnited Kingdom.She was a senior lecturer at theUniversity of Edinburgh.She was concerned thatwhite supremacistsinfluenced theBrexitvote.[3]
In 2017 Emejulu joined theUniversity of Warwickas a professor of sociology.[4]She is part of anOpen Society Foundationproject calledWomen of Colour Resist.The project looks to map the processes that women of colour use for activism.[5]She works extensively withLeah Basselat theUniversity of Leicester.[6]
Books
[edit]- 2015 Community Development as Micropolitics: Comparing Theories, Policies and Politics in America and Britain[7]
- 2017 Minority Women and Austerity: Survival and Resistance in France and Britain[8]
- 2019 To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe[9][10]
References
[edit]- ^"Akwugo Emejulu - Edinburgh Research Explorer".research.ed.ac.uk.Archived fromthe originalon 2018-12-10.Retrieved2018-12-09.
- ^Emejulu, Akwugo (2010).Community development as discourse: analysing discourses, identities and social practices in the US and the UK(Ph.D. thesis). University of Strathclyde.
- ^"On the Hideous Whiteness Of Brexit:" Let us be honest about our past and our present if we truly seek to dismantle white supremacy "".Versobooks.Retrieved2018-12-09.
- ^"The Boar".The Boar.2016-10-26.Retrieved2018-12-09.
- ^"Akwugo Emejulu".warwick.ac.uk.Retrieved2018-12-09.
- ^"Women of Colour's Anti-Austerity Activism: They Cut, We Bleed".Pluto Press.2017-09-01.Retrieved2018-12-09.
- ^Emejulu, Akwugo (20 July 2016).Community development as micropolitics: comparing theories, policies and politics in America and Britain.ISBN9781447313182.OCLC957724966.
- ^Leah Bassel; Akwugo Emejulu (2018).MINORITY WOMEN AND AUSTERITY: survival and resistance in france and britain.POLICY PRESS.ISBN978-1447327141.OCLC1007921857.
- ^Emejulu, Akwugo; Sobande, Francesca (2019-05-15).To Exist Is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe.Pluto Press.ISBN9780745339481.
- ^"To Exist is to Resist".To Exist is to Resist.Retrieved2018-12-09.
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- Living people
- Alumni of the University of Glasgow
- Academics of the University of Warwick
- British women sociologists
- British women social scientists
- Political sociologists
- American University alumni
- American women political scientists
- American political scientists
- American women academics
- 21st-century American women
- Alumni of the University of Strathclyde