Creolizing Europe

Contributors David Corkill is Visiting Lecturer at the University of Chester having previously worked at MMU, Portsmouth and Leeds universities. He has written extensively on the economies and societies of Spain and Portugal. Umut Erel is Lecturer in Sociology and a member of the Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance at the Open University, UK. Umut's research interests are in migration, ethnicity, gender, class and citizenship. Recent publications include, Migrant Women Transforming Citizenship. Aldershot: Ashgate (2009), 'Kurdish Migrant mothers enacting citizenship', Citizenship Studies, Nov. 2013. Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez is Chair in Sociology at the Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Germany. Previous to her appointment in Giessen she was a Senior Lecturer in Transcultural Studies at the University of Manchester, UK. She is the author of Intellektuelle Migrantinnen (1999) and Migration, Domestic Work and Affect (2010), and the co-editor of Spricht die Subalterne Deutsch? Migration und Postkoloniale Kritik (2003), Gouvernementalität (2003) and Decolonizing European Sociology (2010). Stuart Hall, influential cultural theorist, campaigner and founding editor of the New Left Review, was Emeritus Professor at the Open University, UK. In 2005 he was made a fellow of the British Academy. His published work includes the collaborative volumes Resistance Through Rituals (1975); Culture, Media, Language (1980); Politics and Ideology (1986); The Hard Road to Renewal (1988); New Times (1989); Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies (1996); and Different: A Historical Context: Contemporary Photographers and Black Identity (2001). In 2013 he published with Doreen Massey and Michael Rustin After Neoliberalism? The Kilburn Manifesto, a statement being made in twelve monthly instalments, critically examining the nature of neoliberalism locally, in the United Kingdom, and globally. Christian Klesse is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies in the Department of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. His research interests include sexual politics, sexual cultures and questions of embodiment. He is currently engaged in collaborative research on transnational LGBTQ politics (with a focus on Poland) and Queer Film Festivals in Europe. His most recent publications include a co-edited special issue on Gender, Sexuality and Political Economy in the International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society (27(2), June, 2014. Mónica G. Moreno Figueroa is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Cambridge, previously she was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Newcastle. Her research and publications have focused on the lived experience of 'race' and racism in Mexico; beauty, emotions and feminist theory; and visual methodologies and applied research collaborations. She is currently completing a book on the everyday life of racism in Mexico and has published in a variety of journals and edited collections. H. Adlai Murdoch is Professor of Romance Languages and Director of Africana Studies at Tufts University. He is the author of Creole Identity in the French Caribbean Novel (2001), and of Creolizing the Metropole: Migratory Metropolitan Caribbean Identities in Literature and Film (2012), and the co-editor of the essay collections Postcolonial Theory and Francophone Literary Studies (2005), Francophone Cultures and Geographies of Identity (2013), and Metropolitan Mosaics and Melting-Pots-Paris and Montreal in Francophone Literatures (2013). Alpesh Kantilal Patel is an Assistant Professor in Contemporary Art and Theory at Florida International University in Miami. He is also Director of the Master of Fine Arts programme in Visual Arts and an affiliate faculty both of the African & African Diaspora programme and the Women's and Gender Studies Centre. His book project provisionally titled "Productive Failure: Writing Queer Transnational South Asian Art Histories" is under contract with Manchester University Pres...