Akwugo Emejulu
Akwugo
Emejulu
BIO
Akwugo is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick. Before entering academia, she worked as a community organizer, trade union organizer and participatory action researcher. As a political sociologist, she has research interests in two areas: racial, gender and class inequalities in Europe and women of colour’s intersectional activism for justice.
At THE NEW INSTITUTE, Akwugo is involved in the program Black Feminism and the Polycrisis.
QUESTIONS
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What gives you hope?
The always surprising and innovative ways in which ordinary people organize and mobilize for justice. -
How does change happen?
Slowly, through the hard and oftentimes demoralizing work of collective analysis and collective action to build new worlds and new realities. -
What is the best advice you ever got?
From my grandmother: “Love many, trust few, always paddle your own canoe.”
PUBLICATIONS
“The Lonely Activist: On Being Haunted”, (with L. Bassel), in: The Sociological Review, 2023
Fugitive Feminism, London 2022
“Refusing Politics as Usual: Mapping Women of Colour’s Radical Praxis in London and Amsterdam”, (with I. van der Scheer), in: Identities, 2021
To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe (eds. with F. Sobande), London 2019
Minority Women and Austerity: Survival and Resistance in France and Britain (with L. Bassel), Bristol 2017