Dr Georgie Wemyss
Senior Lecturer
CMRB , Social Sciences
I have been working as a Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader for the Foundation Year in Social Sciences since 2016. I am also Co-Director for the Centre for research on Migration , Refugees and Belonging (CMRB).
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EB 1.107, Docklands Campus
University of East London
School of Law and Social Sciences
Docklands Campus
London
E16 2RD - g.wemyss@uel.ac.uk +442082232300
Georgie Wemyss is Senior Lecturer, Programme Leader for the Foundation Year in Social Sciences and Co-Director at the Centre for Research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging. From 2013 to 2016 she worked on the EUBorderscapes project, investigating the evolving concepts of state borders in Europe. Her interest in the everyday processes of bordering grew out of her D.Phil ethnographic research about Britishness and belonging together with insights gained from 20 years teaching social anthropology to adults returning to education in East London. Previously she worked as a youth worker in Tower Hamlets and lived in India and Bangladesh where she studied at the Bangla Academy. Her book, The Invisible Empire: White Discourse, Tolerance and Belonging explores how differing narratives of Britishness obscure colonial histories in ways that work against the belonging of second and third generation British citizens in the present. She was an ESRC Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Migration at the University of Surrey from 2005 to 2007 and Visiting Fellow at Goldsmiths College from 2007 to 2011
University College London, BA in Anthropology and Geography 1982
Institute of Education, University of London, PGCE (Distinction) 1988
University of Sussex, MA in Social Anthropology 1992
University of Sussex, D.Phil in Social Anthropology 2004
Institute of Education, University of London, PGCE (Distinction) 1988
University of Sussex, MA in Social Anthropology 1992
University of Sussex, D.Phil in Social Anthropology 2004
Overview
Current research is in the context of th EUBorderscapes Project:
http://www.euborderscapes.eu/index.php?id=description
Recent related research includes:
(2011) 'Littoral Struggles, Liminal Lives: Indian Merchant Seafarers' Resistances' in Ahmed, R. and Mukherjee, S. (eds) South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858 - 1947, London: Continuum
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/south-asian-resistances-in-britain-1858-1947-9781441117564/
(2009)The Invisible Empire: white discourse, tolerance and belonging . Aldermaston: Ashgate.
http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754673477
http://www.uel.ac.uk/cmrb/documents/InvisibleEmpireDec2009.pdf
http://www.euborderscapes.eu/index.php?id=description
Recent related research includes:
(2011) 'Littoral Struggles, Liminal Lives: Indian Merchant Seafarers' Resistances' in Ahmed, R. and Mukherjee, S. (eds) South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858 - 1947, London: Continuum
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/south-asian-resistances-in-britain-1858-1947-9781441117564/
(2009)The Invisible Empire: white discourse, tolerance and belonging . Aldermaston: Ashgate.
http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754673477
http://www.uel.ac.uk/cmrb/documents/InvisibleEmpireDec2009.pdf
Collaborators
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Research
Publications
Funding
Borders and everyday processes of bordering
Politics of remembering
British empire histories
Citizenship and belonging
Racism
Politics of religious fundamentalisms
Ethnographic methodology
Adult education
Interests
Portfolio
Programme Leader for Foundation Year in Social Sciences
Royal Anthropological Institute (Member since 2004)
British Sociological Association (Member since 2007)
British Sociological Association (Member since 2007)