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Academic Research * Art/Architecture * Creative Writing


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Founding director of the Radical Humanities Laboratory


Professor of Social and Political Theory &


Lecturer at the Cork Centre for Architectural Education


University College Cork, Ireland (from Oct 2022)




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Click on the book icons here below for more information, reviews and related publications on each topic


I am a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) elected 2021


I was an invited fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin 2021-22


Professorial Academic Associate of Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, UEA, Norwich



I was previously Chair in Sociology and Social Theory & director of the Bauman Institute at University of Leeds, England


+ Professor of Sociology at Sciences Po, Paris, and at University of California, Los Angeles


I also directed the Centre for Global and Regional Ethnographies at Aarhus University (GLOREA), Denmark



RECENT PROJECTS, VIDEOS & ARTICLES



Information on new ERC AdG Project (2024-2028) MIGMOBS / The Orders and Borders of Global Inequality



New Polity Press book The Integration Nation published Feb 2022


Book Presentation and Discussion of The Integration Nation at NCCR On The Move Neuchâtel


Univ. of Warsaw CMR talk on Decolonising Immigrant Integration [a.k.a. Integration after Diversity: A Critique]


Other new publications in Migration studies, Ethnic and Racial studies & EU studies HERE



CUNY Podcast on Quo Vadis Britannia? - the UK after Brexit, Covid, Johnson & Queen Elizabeth


Special symposium on Militant Epistemologies: The Life and Work of David Graeber


Sample undergrad video lecture on Philosophies of Modernity L3 - The Perfect Human


Links to all recent Publications and Talks on Japanese art / architecture


See also my Art Forum Critics' Picks + ART-iTblog + aLTERNATE fUTURES blog



ESRC Project  Northern Exposure - Race, Nation and Political Disaffection in Northern Towns after Brexit



I am a founding member of the Global (De)Centre on Diversity Mobility & Culture


Keynote lecture at Univ. of Illinois on Contemporary Politics and Society in Turkey


UEA "Merrie England" lecture on Brexit, Race and Citizenship


Conferences at SISJAC Norwich on Fram Kitagawa and Activist Art in Japan


Live Pecha Kucha presentation on BEFORE AND AFTER SUPERFLAT at Super Deluxe, Tokyo



Lecture on Metabolism and the City of the Future at Sciences Po


Essay on The Changing Face of 'Integration' in a Mobile Europe


Podcast of Univ of Oxford lectures on PHILOSOPHIES OF INTEGRATION REVISITED and AFTER COOL JAPAN


Feature review of BEFORE AND AFTER SUPERFLAT in Art in America by Janet Koplos


In memorium: essay on Philosophy of Social Science of Martin Hollis (1938-1998)