Radhika Govinda is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Acting Director, genderED - the University of Edinburgh's interdisciplinary hub for gender and sexualities studies. Her research and teaching focus on gender politics of development, intersectionality, feminist movements and knowledge production. Further information about her may be found on her webpage.
Member of the Management Group 2022-.
Every morning across Tanzania, crowds gather around street-side newspaper stands to read the headlines. The array of titles attests to the country’s vibrant and historical culture of printing and publishing, in both Swahili and English. While there is an extensive scholarship on the region’s colonial era print cultures, only recently have scholars of Tanzania revisited the post-independence decades in historical perspective. This period was characterised by the government’s ‘African socialist’ project.
An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Bulbul Gupta (Visiting Research Fellow 2021; M.M. Postgraduate College at Modinagar):
Transgender Worlds and the question of human dignity
An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Alejandro Manuel Flores Aguilar (CSMCH-IASH Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow in Modern and Contemporary History 2022; University of Texas at Austin):
Raised Gaze in Ixil Time: Towards a Minor History of War
An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Sonia Wigh (Postdoctoral Fellow 2021-22; University of Exeter):
Dainty Bodies, Woolly Chests: Attitudes Towards Hair and Gender in Early Modern North India
Christine Wilson, Interim Director of Research and Policy Insight at the British Council and member of our Advisory Board, was recently interviewed for SAHA Conversations, a podcast series from the Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance.
An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Seán Mfundza Muller (IASH-SSPS Visiting Research Fellow 2022; University of Johannesburg):
Decolonisation across the disciplines
Dr Jayita Sarkar
Nominated Fellow, June - August 2022
Home Institution: Boston University (until June 2022); University of Glasgow (from July 2022)
An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Laura Rossouw (African Fellow 2021-22; University of the Witwatersrand):
The Economics of Menstrual Hygiene Management: The impact of the Sanitary Dignity Programme on access to menstrual hygiene products in South Africa
Rationale
Nicola Dahrendorf
Nominated Fellow, November 2021 - February 2022
Independent researcher