Akwugo Emejulu

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.

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Akwugo Emejulu
Akwugo Emejulu testifies at the Equal Opportunities Committee of the Scottish Parliament in 2015
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Strathclyde
University of Glasgow
American University
ThesisCommunity development as discourse : analysing discourses, identities and social practices in the US and the UK (2010)
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Edinburgh
University of Warwick

Early life and education

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

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
  • 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
  1. "Akwugo Emejulu - Edinburgh Research Explorer". www.research.ed.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-12-09.
  2. 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.
  3. "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.
  4. "The Boar". The Boar. 2016-10-26. Retrieved 2018-12-09.
  5. "Akwugo Emejulu". warwick.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-12-09.
  6. "Women of Colour's Anti-Austerity Activism: They Cut, We Bleed". Pluto Press. 2017-09-01. Retrieved 2018-12-09.
  7. Emejulu, Akwugo (20 July 2016). Community development as micropolitics : comparing theories, policies and politics in America and Britain. ISBN 9781447313182. OCLC 957724966.
  8. Leah Bassel; Akwugo Emejulu (2018). MINORITY WOMEN AND AUSTERITY : survival and resistance in france and britain. POLICY PRESS. ISBN 978-1447327141. OCLC 1007921857.
  9. Emejulu, Akwugo; Sobande, Francesca (2019-05-15). To Exist Is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe. Pluto Press. ISBN 9780745339481.
  10. "To Exist is to Resist". To Exist is to Resist. Retrieved 2018-12-09.
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