Dr Sue Pell
Associate Professor of Communication
Contact:
Email: susan.pell@richmond.ac.uk
School: School of Communications, Arts & Social Sciences
Research centres: The State Power & Globalisation
Associate Professor of Communication
Contact:
Email: susan.pell@richmond.ac.uk
School: School of Communications, Arts & Social Sciences
Research centres: The State Power & Globalisation
About
I joined Richmond in the Fall of 2012. Prior to that, I was a Visiting Fellow in the Sociology Department at Goldsmiths College (UL), where I researched social movement archives and documentation practices of radical political groups. This project was funded through a national Postdoctoral Fellowship (2011-2012) awarded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. I hold an interdisciplinary PhD from Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, Canada). My published work has appeared in international journals, and I have presented at conferences in the UK and abroad.
Research interests
My research focuses on public discourses, social movements, urban politics, and radical archives. I am interested in questions of collective identity, rhetoric and representations, public space and public spheres, and social transformation. As an interdisciplinary scholar, my research draws from the fields of communications, cultural studies, sociology, urban studies, and social and political theory. My work has focused on social housing and anti-poverty movements and the formation of publics, exploring emergent citizenship practices, public spheres, and possibilities for democratic participation.
My current work focuses on anti-gentrification campaigns in Vancouver and London. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in gentrification archives, I investigate the relationship between knowledge production and democracy, and bring together discussions of the politics of the archive with those of rights to the city. I am also interested in the relationship between research and activism, where I look at how these manifest in the university, archives and libraries, and social movements.
Teaching & learning
I teach on:
Communications and Sociology
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Research outputs