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 engagement with minority issues.
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Congratulations to Dr. Débora Rodrigues on her doctoral viva
We at the Centre for Minorities Research are delighted to share the wonderful news that Débora Rodrigues Azevedo Silva has successfully defended her doctoral thesis at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (PPGE/FaE/UFMG). Her thesis, Justiça Epistêmica: A Produção Acadêmica de Intelectuais Indígenas e Quilombolas (Epistemic Justice: The Academic Production of Indigenous and Quilombola Intellectuals), makes a…
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My Life In… Podcast | Episode 2
We’re excited to share the second episode of My Life In…, the podcast from the Centre for Minorities Research (CMR). In this episode, Prof Nina Laurie, Professor of Human Geography at the University of St Andrews, speaks with Renato Gozzer Wuest, Program Director at Innovations for Ocean Action Foundation, about his professional journey in sustainable fisheries…
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Bodies. Borders. Becomings
In times marked by irreversible climate catastrophe, proliferating far-right politics and regimes of surveillance, war and genocide, and unprecedented migratory movements, borders remain urgent sites of investigation. As junctures of encounter, division, and control, borders produce and maintain conditions of crisis, while also generating emergent forms of solidarity, healing, and resistance that challenge the fixity…
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