The Centre for Minorities Research (CMR) supports academic dialogue and real-time action on one of the most urgent global challenges of our time: achieving meaningful, intersectional engagement with vulnerable populations. Bringing together an outstanding team from across the University of St Andrews and beyond, CMR facilitates cutting-edge research, interdisciplinary debate, and knowledge application to promote empowerment and engagement with minority issues.
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Season 4 / Episode 6
The CMR Team is happy and proud of all involved in another successful season of the CMR Podcast. Season 4 ends with the topic of accessibility in heritage spaces—a critical and timely conversation for everyone in the field. There has been a longstanding belief from both academics and the public that the goal of historical
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New Publication: First Seminar Series – Minorities in Times of Scarcity and Conflict
We are pleased to announce that the first Seminar Series, Minorities in Times of Scarcity and Conflict, will be featured in Routledge Advances in Minority Studies Series. Edited by Antonio Montañés Jiménez, Camila Ferreira Marinelli, and Stavroula Pipyrou, this volume places scarcity as a defining aspect of minorities’ collective experience and as a tool to
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Season 4 / Episode 5
How does a group’s identity change if it is subject to two vastly different conditions? How has Sahrawi identity developed in exile and under occupation? In this episode, Maarten Weinrich, a postgraduate student in Strategic Studies with a background in conflict transformation and peacekeeping research, explores how decades of conflict, exile, and occupation have led
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