Our research
The group’s current research specialisms cover the following broad thematic areas:
- Colonial, postcolonial, decolonial and migration studies
- Political regimes, civil society and political parties research
- Foreign policy and development assistance
- Urban governance, development and marginalisation
- Economic and social policy
- Gender and politics
- Language and politics
Geographically, the group’s research engages with the politics in Latin America, East Asia, Europe, Russia, North Africa, the Middle East as well as Sub-Saharan Africa.
Research projects
Academics in the politics group are currently involved in a range of research projects at the cutting-edge of their field, a selection of which are listed below:
- Post-Work: Framing Labour in Post-Industrial Europe, AHRC, (Sarah Waters and external collaborators)
- Performance, Politics and Piety: Music as Debate in Muslim Societies in North Africa, West Asia, South Asia and their Diasporas, AHRC/ESRC, (2014- follow-on) (Kamal Salhi, Project Leader)
- Vicious Cities: Landslides and Urbanization in Contemporary Andean Cultures, Newton Trust/British Council, 2018-19 (Rebecca Jarman)
- Armando Armero: Safeguarding Collective Memory and Reconnecting Diasporic Communities, AHRC, 2018-19 (Rebecca Jarman)
- Youth and political parties in the MENA, ESRC, pending (Hendrik Kraetzschmar and external collaborators)
- Hematopolitics in Japan and South Korea: reciprocity and exclusion in blood donation, work-in-progress (Jieun Kim)
Explore our projects for more details about our past and present research activity.
Book projects
- Japan’s development assistance to the African countries (Kweku Ampiah)
- ‘Patriotic education’ reforms in China and Japan (Caroline Rose)
- Former Prime Ministers of Japan (co-authored by Caroline Rose)
- Shantytowns and the city: colonial power relations in Algiers and Casablanca, 1919-1962, Oxford University Press (Jim House)
- Curating conspiracy: politics, people and power on Russia Today (co-authored by Ilya Yablokov)
- Representing the barrios: culture, politics and poverty in twentieth-century Caracas (Rebecca Jarman)
- The other city: survival and care in underclass Japan (Jieun Kim)
Academic team
- Dr Kweku Ampiah, Associate Professor of Japanese Studies
- Dr Andrew Delatolla, Lecturer in Middle Eastern Studies
- Dr Caroline Fielder, Lecturer in Chinese Studies
- Dr Jim House, Senior Lecturer in French and Francophone History
- Dr Rebecca Jarman, Lecturer in Latin American Cultural Studies
- Dr Jieun Kim, Lecturer in Japanese Studies
- Dr Hendrik Kraetzschmar, Associate Professor in the Comparative Politics of the Middle East and North Africa
- Dr Stephan Petzold, Lecturer in German History
- Professor Caroline Rose, Professor of Sino-Japanese Relations
- Dr Kamal Salhi, Reader in Francophone, Postcolonial and African Studies
- Dr Andy Stafford, Senior Lecturer in French
- Dr Ilya Yablokov, Teaching Fellow in Russian Studies
Explore our profiles for more information about our academic team.