Department of Anthropology and Sociology
Flora Hastings
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Key information
- Roles
- Department of Anthropology and Sociology Graduate Teaching Assistant
- Department
- Department of Anthropology and Sociology
- Qualifications
- BA, MA (UCL), MRes (SOAS)
- Email address
- 675265@soas.ac.uk
- Thesis title
- Occupied Orchards and Public Plant Rituals in Barcelona: An Ethnography of Shifting Relations to the Natural World and Spatial Re-Appropriations of the City
- Internal Supervisors
- Dr Naomi Leite & Dr Kostas Retsikas
Biography
Contact Flora for any teaching matters on fh21@soas.ac.uk
After my BA in English Literature (UCL) and a year spent as a freelance photojournalist in Barcelona, I completed an MSc in Anthropology (UCL) in 2018. Following ethnographic research in one of Cordoba’s most historic mosques, I explored Spanish Moroccan Muslims’ historical consciousness of Spain’s Islamic past and this related to public and private modes of religiosity. My MRes in anthropology (SOAS) focused on the relation between public displays of Jewishness in Barcelona and the global growth of minority groups who display their cultural or ethnic traditions through the heritage industry since the 1980s. This research culminated in my co-organisation of a three-day workshop exploring public Jewish identity, while I also co-ordinated the Jewish-Muslim Research Network and continue to write journalistic articles. My PhD, in the anthropology department of SOAS, University of London, is ESRC funded.
