Prof.dr. Akwugo Emejulu is Professor of Sociology at Warwick University.
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/staff/akwugoemejulu/
Akwugo Emejulu is consistently analysing our Western society, most strongly the UK and the US, in how it produces and reproduces inequalities on race, class and gender, with a strong focus on women of colour’s activism and their strategies for survival and for societal change. Intersectionality is key to her, and real. She is outspoken, active in and outside of university settings, and working together with many others in her work. She has a stellar record on public engagement, and worked in a variety of grassroots roles before entering academia.
She has published extensively, not only academically, but also by writing reports, briefing papers, editorials, blogs, and through her presence in social and classic media. She is one of the very few scholars theorizing Black feminism in Europe. As one of the too few Black female professors in the UK, she is always negotiating the dominant discourses of racialized, and gendered European academia and societies. Her work has a great and much needed impact on gender and politics scholarship.
Highlights
Akwugo Emejulu was interviewed about this book for the New Books in Critical Theory podcast: http://newbooksnetwork.com/leah-bassel-and-akwugo-emejulu-minority-women-and-austerity-survival-and-resistance-in-france-and-britain-policy-press-2017
