Mr Kiyoung Beom Research Area: The financial crisis of public broadcasting. The crisis of democracy centered on freedom of speech Date of Appointment: December 2023 - December 2024
Queer Muslim, Devout Muslim: the slippery politics of British homosecularism Muslims in the Global North are routinely categorised using ‘good/moderate’ and ‘bad/extreme’ labels that implicitly privilege secularism above overt religiosity, and political quietism over activism.
Race, gender, and Occidentalism in global reactionary discourses: China as method This talk seeks to contribute to a global understanding of reactionary discursive formations at the current historical conjuncture, foregrounding the centrality of global whiteness, masculinism, and a renewed imagination of “the West” as well as gendered East/West binaries.
Antiracist scholar-activism in the contemporary university Against a backdrop of multiple crises, this talk is concerned with the responsibilities of academics.
Theorizing ethnographically: No shares without acknowledgement In the face of massive inequalities, sharing resonates as a popular demand.
‘The girl in red flowers stilettos’ - Sexualised extortion in North India This paper investigates acts of extortion ethnographically.
PhD panel In this seminar we present four rapid presentations from our new PhD graduates who will discuss ethnographic insights from their recent theses.
Political imaginaries and the moral grammars of work: Demands on the state in an age of surplus populations This paper examines the ways in which popular economic and political demands on the state are shaped by social imaginaries around wage labour.
The Arhat painting at Kōmyōji Temple: Iconography, style, and the worship of Buddha in East Asia Arhats are some of the most popular deities in Buddhism. In Medieval Japan, where arhat worship flourished, many paintings and sculptures of arhats were created.