Reflections on Academic Reflection By Julien Mittre Quinn M., 1991 Self, sculpture by Marc Quinn, accessed 21 February 2023, http://marcquinn.com/artworks/single/self-1991. “Why are you looking at that?” says the layman to the researcher. The researcher frowns, stands still and after much hesitation decides not to answer. Instead, he sinks deeper into the seemingly unworthy. Let’s bring …
Forging solidarity in the anti-extradition movement in Hong Kong by Fiona Wong ‘Fight for Freedom, Stand with Hong Kong!’ – a slogan resounding through Hong Kong in 2019. A large-scale anti-extradition movement was unfolding that brought Hong Kong into the global spotlight. As protestors lined the streets and fought off tear gas and grenades, many …
The making of Brahmin womanhood by Sambhavi Ganesh Me – “Hello, I would like to book a place at your training event.” Organiser – “How old is your child?” Me – “I am asking for myself, and I am 24.” The same conversation played out yet again as I tried to negotiate the booking process …
Pic: Aiden Frazier, used with the UnSplash license. A Threat and a Promise: Abortion’s History in the Twenty-First Century by Alisha Palmer In 1929, Marie Stopes, famous birth control advocate, claimed that ‘an epidemic of abortions’ was sweeping England. As the unofficial figurehead of the British birth control movement and founder of the UK’s first …
Last year, GENDER.ED launched an ECR Spotlight Series to showcase the cutting-edge research being done by ECRs at the University of Edinburgh. This year, our series focuses on PhD researchers. Their posts offer some fascinating new research from gendered political protest in Hong Kong to what an analysis of abortion discourses in the early twentieth century can …
In the last of our ECR Spotlights for 2021, Dr Gina Gwenffrewi asks the questions: who gets to control the cultural production of meaning, norms and representations by and about trans women? Who are considered to be the ‘right kind’ of trans women and accorded visibility? And who are marginalised and out of sight?
As part of the ECR Spotlight, doctoral candidate Fabiola Fiocco writes about her research into creative interventions to rethink gender and labour in relation to socially engaged art and independent art spaces in Europe.
In her contribution to the ECR Spotlight, doctoral candidate Sheelalipi Sahana writes about complex notions of agency and autonomy in the depictions of Muslim women as non-modern women in modern spaces in the select writings of the All India Progressive Writers Association (AIPWA).
Doctoral candidate Miriam Vishniac writes for the ECR Spotlight about her research into menstruation and the lack of access to menstrual products in prisons, which she considers to be a part of the “correctional afterthought” that criminologists have argued results from a system designed by men for men.
For the ECR Spotlight, PhD Candidate Chase Ledin argues that effective health promotion is a collective and everyday practice in which marginalised communities, activists and artists as well as health professionals, data modellers and officials must be equal partners in imagining healthy futures.
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