Politics, Culture and Society
UEL’s political, social and cultural research is grounded in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Research is focused on effecting positive change in our communities, from protecting vulnerable groups to enhancing the quality of urban life.
Key research topics include:
- life histories and memory
- narrative research
- urban and popular culture
- urban regeneration
- ethnicities and cosmopolitanism
- identity construction
- gender and sexualities
- consumption
- globalisation
- postmodernities
Professor Barbara Taylor
Death of the Asylum
Examining treatment of vulnerble members of society
How do we look after the most vulnerable members of society? This timeless question is critical in an era of public sector cuts, and will be addressed by Professor Barbara Taylor in a unique book that mixes memoir with historical study.
Barbara is a world-leading historian of feminism. Her book, Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century won the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize. Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination, published in 2003, gained international recognition as a definitive study of its subject. In 2009 she published On Kindness, written with psychoanalyst Adam Phillips.
more >>Useful Links
Highlights
