In this episode of My Life In…, Dr Ana Gutiérrez Garza speaks with Alejandra Ancheita, founder and Executive Director of ProDESC (Project on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights), about her professional journey defending labour, environmental, and human rights in Mexico. Together, they reflect on the realities of working alongside Indigenous peoples, migrant workers, and communities affected … Read more
We are delighted to congratulate Dr Camila Ferreira Marinelli, CMR Associate and researcher at the Centre for Minorities Research, on the publication of her chapter in the new Berghahn Books volume: Educating Otherwise: Contexts, Interventions and Radical Possibilities of Anthropological Learning Camila’s chapter, “Decolonial Praxis: The Experiences of Indigenous Academics in Brazil,” draws on her doctoral research at … Read more
In Episode 3 of Season 5, Luci Portugal Vidal (Mlitt International Security Studies) in speaks with Aleksejs Ivashuk, founder of Apatride Network and a leading advocate on statelessness in Europe, about the realities of life without legal nationality. Moving beyond statelessness as a legal category, the conversation explores how non-recognition shapes access to rights, education, healthcare, work, mobility, identity, and … Read more
We are pleased to share the latest episode of My Life In…, the podcast from the Centre for Minorities Research. In this episode, Professor Alice König speaks with Will Dalziel and Dr Patrícia Martuscelli about their professional journeys and experiences working on issues related to conflict, migration, peacebuilding, and youth engagement. The conversation explores career … Read more
In this episode, Evgeniya Pakhomova, a social anthropologist specialising in Russian antiwar activism, interviews Lana Pylaeva, an indigenous activist from the republic of Komi and director of regional media Komi.Daily. Evgeniya presents the context for the new wave of Indigenous activism that emerged in response to the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, while … Read more
In this episode of the CMR Podcast, Esther Zitterl (PhD researcher in Black British literature and the Windrush legacy, School of English, University of St Andrews) speaks with novelist Dr Ashley Hickson-Lovence about his 2026 novella About to Fall Apart (Faber). Told in verse across three days, the book follows Aidy — a man of mixed Irish-Caribbean … Read more
The third episode of My Life In…, the podcast from the Centre for Minorities Research (CMR) is out now! In this episode, Dr Alasdair Gordon-Gibson, Honorary Lecturer at the University of St Andrews, speaks with David Horobin, Senior Crisis Management Advisor at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, about his extensive experience in humanitarian response and … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more