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Overview
Available for PhD supervision
I am interested in supervising dissertations on any aspect of Marxist-Humanism (including on the Johnson-Forest Tendency, Raya Dunayevskaya, Harry McShane, News & Letters Committees and successor organisations, the Marxist Humanist Initiative and the International Marxist Humanist Organization.
I am also interested in supervising dissertations on racism and sectarianism in Northern Ireland, as well as on methodological nationalism and the Northern Ireland blindspot.
Overview
Chris Gilligan has taught at a number of Universities in the UK: Aston University, Edinburgh University, Salford University, University of Ulster and the University of the West of Scotland.
Area of academic expertise - outline
Migration, racisms and anti-racisms, with a particular focus on Northern Ireland and Scotland. Raya Dunayevskaya and Marxist-Humanism.
Desired research direction
social and political protest
Current research activities
Co-authored book chapter on Raya Dunayevskaya
Other areas of expertise available for knowledge exchange
Chris Gilligan is interested in supervising PhD research in any of the following topic areas: resistance to immigration controls in the UK and/or Ireland; emancipatory anti-racism in the UK and/or Ireland; Raya Dunayevskaya, the founder of Marxist-Humanism in the USA; Harry McShane, the veteran Red Clydesider and later editor of the Scottish Marxist-Humanist; critical examinations of populism; 'self-organising' trade union activity (e.g. IWGB, UVW, IWW).
Keywords
- HM Sociology
- Ethnic and Racial Studies
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth -
SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
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Jack Crangle. Migrants, Immigration and Diversity in Twentieth-Century Northern Ireland: British, Irish or “Other”? Palgrave Studies in Migration History. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. Pp. 283. $149.49 (cloth).
Gilligan, C., 31 Oct 2023, In: Journal of British Studies. p. 1088-1089 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
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Methodological nationalism and the Northern Ireland blind-spot in ethnic and racial studies
Gilligan, C., 2022, In: Ethnic and Racial Studies. 45, 3, p. 431-451 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Raya Dunayevskaya: the embodiment of the Red/Black Atlantic in theory and practice
Gilligan, C. & Niles, N., 30 Apr 2022, Revolutionary Lives of the Red and Black Atlantic Since 1917. Featherstone, D., Høgsbjerg, C. & Rice, A. (eds.). Manchester: Manchester University Press, p. 217-234 18 p. (Racism, Resistance and Social Change).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Northern Ireland and the limits of the race relations framework
Gilligan, C., 1 Mar 2019, In: Capital & Class. 43, 1, p. 105-121 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Austerity and consociational government in Northern Ireland
Gilligan, C., 2016, In: Irish Studies Review. 24, 1, p. 35-48 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Activities
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Brexit and immigration controls across the Irish border
Gilligan, C. (Speaker)
14 Mar 2019 → 15 Mar 2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
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Migration to the margin
Gilligan, C. (Keynote/plenary speaker)
29 Apr 2019Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Socialism in Our Time
Gilligan, C. (Invited speaker)
13 Apr 2019 → 14 Apr 2019Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
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Putting the Irish border issue in context: partition, war, peace and Brexit
Gilligan, C. (Invited speaker)
10 Apr 2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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From the ‘long war’ to the ‘long peace’
Gilligan, C. (Invited speaker)
8 Mar 2019Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar, course