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 4
In this episode, Natalia Hernandez Somarriba, a second-year PhD student in Modern Languages, compares two texts by Peruvian authors that address the broad context of unequal social relations within post-colonial Peru, as well as between Peru and Europe as a former colonial power. The first is the neo-indigenista novel Los ríos profundos (1958) by José
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Season 4 / Episode 3
How can museums, traditionally visual spaces, become more accessible to visually impaired audiences? In this episode, Renato Trotta, a PhD candidate in Museum and Gallery Studies, explores the tensions between ocularcentric institutions and the need for non-visual engagement. He shares insights from his interdisciplinary research, drawing from museology, social sciences, critical disability theory, and psychology.
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New Publication by CMR Associate Sarah Edgcumbe
We are pleased to share a new article by Phd Candidate Sarah Edgcumbe, produced for Researching Internal Displacement’s Middle East Research Network on Internal Displacement (MERNID). The piece explores the challenges and complexities faced by returnee Iraqi Gypsies and Bedouin, emphasizing the urgent need for consultation with these communities on their protection and (re)integration needs. Drawing on research from 2021,
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