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Kabuki-cho Gangsters: Ethnic Succession in Japanese Organised Crime?
Dr Peter Hill held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Sociology Department, University of Oxford between 2001 and 2004 to work on the relationship between indigenous and immigrant criminal groupings in contemporary Japan. He describes here some of his research on gangsters in Tokyo.
Forging the Anglo-Saxon past: Beverley Minster in the 14th century
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow Dr David Woodman reveals the steps that the Beverley clergy took to fill some awkward gaps in their legal records.
Faith, Fertility and the Field Economist
Dr Sriya Iyer was awarded a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship (2000-2003) to work on ‘Religion, inequality and fertility in South India’. Here she describes one aspect of her research.
Divine Intoxication? Jesuit Georgic Poetry on Exotic Beverages
Dr Yasmin Haskell held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship between 1999 and 2002. Her book on Jesuit Latin didactic poetry is published by the British Academy in summer 2003. In the early modern period, the subjects of poems in the didactic genre were as multifarious as they were topical, including …
Popular Recreation and the Significance of Space
Dr Emma Griffin held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge from 2001 to 2004, during which she studied the history of popular sports and recreations in the long eighteenth century. Here, she illustrates one aspect of her research.
Music among the Sibe of Xinjiang
Ethnomusicologist and former British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr Rachel Harris spent long periods of fieldwork in Xinjiang, in the remote desert region of Chinese Central Asia, listening and learning about the music of the Sibe, descendants of Qing dynasty military garrisons. In this edited extract from her book, ‘Singing the …
Endangered whales, endangered humans: Wildlife management in the Canadian Arctic
Dr Martina Tyrrell reveals the tensions that exist when conservation policies conflict with traditional ways of life on Hudson Bay. Dr Tyrrell was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow 2005–2008. She gave a presentation on her research at the 2008 British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Symposium.
Scuffles and skirmishes in interwar French politics
Chris Millington explores a violent French subculture in the 1920s and 1930s.
Language as a reflection of society: Examples from Palestinian Arabic
Uri Horesh explains how social forces change language.
Who watches the watchmen?
How does news coverage of local crime affect policing in the United States? British Academy-funded researchers Dr Arianna Ornaghi and Dr Nicola Mastrorocco investigate
‘Big Society’, ‘good culture’, and aspiration
Dr Matthew Johnson is Lecturer in Politics at Lancaster University. He was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow from 2011 to 2014. He currently holds a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award. His project explores social and political concepts through an innovative form of community-oriented participatory research.
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