Professor Jennifer Robinson FBA

Postcolonial critique of urban studies; comparative urbanism and global urban studies; rethinking urban development politics from South African, UK and African contexts; transnational and state actors in urban development.
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Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2024
Honours
FBA

Current post

University College London Professor of Human Geography

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Janet Carsten FBA

The anthropology of kinship with particular reference to Malaysia & Britain, domestic relations, historical migration, the house, adoption reunions, kinship & memory, bodily substance, the interface between popular & medical ideas about blood.

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Professor Chris Fuller FBA

The anthropology of India, including popular Hinduism and Hindu nationalism, the caste system, the modern state, globalisation and the middle class; field research mainly in Tamil Nadu.

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Professor Jamie Peck FBA

Economic geography, political economy, urban and regional restructuring, governance

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