Akwugo Emejulu
Prof Akwugo Emejulu | |
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 Akwugo Emejulu testifies at the Equal Opportunities Committee of the Scottish Parliament in 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 Emejulu is a professor of sociology at the University 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 the American University.[1] She joined the University of Glasgow for her graduate studies, earning a Master of Philosophy in Urban Policy. She moved to the University of Strathclyde for 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 the United States and United Kingdom. She was a senior lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. She was concerned that white supremacists influenced the Brexit vote.[3]
In 2017 Emejulu joined the University of Warwick as a professor of sociology.[4] She is part of an Open Society Foundation project called Women of Colour Resist. The project looks to map the processes that women of colour use for activism.[5] She works extensively with Leah Bassel at the University 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". www.research.ed.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2018-12-10. Retrieved 2018-12-09.
- ^ 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.com. Retrieved 2018-12-09.
- ^ "The Boar". The Boar. 2016-10-26. Retrieved 2018-12-09.
- ^ "Akwugo Emejulu". warwick.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-12-09.
- ^ "Women of Colour's Anti-Austerity Activism: They Cut, We Bleed". Pluto Press. 2017-09-01. Retrieved 2018-12-09.
- ^ Emejulu, Akwugo (20 July 2016). Community development as micropolitics : comparing theories, policies and politics in America and Britain. ISBN 9781447313182. OCLC 957724966.
- ^ Leah Bassel; Akwugo Emejulu (2018). MINORITY WOMEN AND AUSTERITY : survival and resistance in france and britain. POLICY PRESS. ISBN 978-1447327141. OCLC 1007921857.
- ^ Emejulu, Akwugo; Sobande, Francesca (2019-05-15). To Exist Is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe. Pluto Press. ISBN 9780745339481.
- ^ "To Exist is to Resist". To Exist is to Resist. Retrieved 2018-12-09.
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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