The RESIST Project Press Release: Findings from the Work Package 1 Released
Apr 10, 2024
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The RESIST Project Press Release
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Headline: Europe-wide research reveals how transgender rights, feminism, and LGBTIQ+ advocacy are systematically attacked in politics and media.
Lead: A project researching so-called ‘anti-gender’ politics across Europe has shown how undermining our understanding of gender as socially constructed norms has taken root internationally.
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Commentary title: "Are We Post-Enlightenment? Queer Questions for Epistemic (In)Justices. A Commentary to Dr Polynczuk-Alenius': ‘Reality’, ‘truth’, and the democratic imagination in journalistic reporting on antiracist, queer, and feminist activism in Poland"
In this invited contribution, Dr Kulpa will share reflections on how EDI (equality, diversity, and inclusion) and decolonialisation work in the UK academic contexts, embedded in the processes of neoliberalization of higher education in the anglophone contexts.
Dr Kulpa presents findings from the EU-funded RESIST project at a international European Geographies of Sexualities Conference
Sep 2, 2024
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Roberto Kulpa talked about: Mapping so-called ‘anti-gender’ discourses in parliamentary and media spaces across the ‘eastern’ and ‘western’ geopolitical imaginations of ‘Europe’ at the 7th European Geographies of Sexualities Conference (EGSC) 2024, held at University of Brighton, Sept 2024. https://2024.egsconference.com
Dr Kulpa's talk addressed findings from the RESIST project:
theresistproject.eu/
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Anti-feminist and anti-LGBTIQ+ mobilisations have taken roots transnationally, denying individuals autonomy, rights to bodily integrity or self-determination, and attacking selected groups of people (e.g. trans* people, people doing abortion) in order to pursue dehumanising and exclusionary agendas. In the ongoing battle against them, national and international queer-feminist insurgencies have been developing spaces of resistances and fightback. ‘Identity politics’, one way or another, is thus a space of tensions and dis-comforts of politics, where actors, issues, and strategies constantly manoeuvre and reposition themselves to aggregate or ease the arising frictions. Symbolic and real geo-temporalities of political loci have been a significant contributing factor in these processes.
This presentation will empirically draw on the research findings from the RESIST Project (https://theresistproject.eu) on the parliamentary and media ‘anti-gender’ debates in the UK, PL, HU, CH, and the European Parliament to engage with the following issues:
•how ‘dis-comfort’ features as an element of the ‘anti-gender’ politics in Polish and transnational contexts;
•porous and un-comfortable thresholds across media and parliaments as places of (trans)national politics;
•syncretic benefits and obstacles emerging from those ‘threshold of dis-comforts’ that re-create imaginary geopolitics of ‘the ‘east’ and ‘west’ in the ‘anti-gender’ (scholarly, political, activist) debates;
•thinking forward about recommendations and next steps needed in our fight against inequalities and for the better, queer-feminist futures.
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‘anti-gender’, LGBTIQ+ equalities, parliamentary and media discourses, queer-feminist resistances, threshold politics.
The RESIST Project: Press Release. FINDINGS FROM THE 2nd STAGE OF THE PROJECT RELEASED
Headline: RESIST reveals the ‘heartbreaking’ impact of so-called ‘anti-gender’ politics across Europe
Lead: The RESIST project, which is investigating so-called ‘anti-gender’ politics across Europe, has discovered several negative consequences, including ‘systemic, institutional discrimination’.
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Laying down a path for safer mountain biking
Feb 23, 2023
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Dedicated to promoting health and wellbeing, Fujitsu is working with Edinburgh Napier University to design a comprehensive study of mountain biking injuries that aims to promote health and safety by enabling manufacturers to innovate and create safer products.
ENU Associate Professor co-hosts conference to launch new, ground-breaking book
Sep 5, 2018
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Dr Calum Neill will co-host an international conference at Ghent University on the 21st and 22nd of September to launch his new co-edited book, Reading Lacan's Ecrits: From 'Signification of the Phallus' to 'Metaphor of the Subject'. The book is the first part of a three volume commentary on Jacques Lacan's Ecrits. The Ecrits is widely regarded as one of the most significant texts of 20th century thought. Reading Lacan's Ecrits is the first complete guide to this work.
Calum Neill's The Palgrave Lacan Series listed as Social Science Series of the Year
Dec 18, 2017
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The Palgrave Lacan Series, the monograph series edited by Dr Calum Neill of the School of Applied Sciences, has been listed as one of the social science series of the year.
University teams up with community researchers to help improve their neighbourhood
Feb 6, 2020
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Deadline media
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A Team of community researchers will join forces with academics to help improve their neighbourhood.
UK Research and Innovation today announced its backing for the Seven Kingdoms of Wester Hailes, one of 53 new UK-wide projects worth £1.4million which will enable members of the public to actively contribute to research and innovation projects that affect their lives.
Part of the agency’s Enhancing place-based partnerships in public engagement programme, the project involves community partners working with Edinburgh Napier University to contribute to the local place plan being developed with support from the Scottish Government’s Chief Architect.
Dr Clare Taylor takes part in expert panel for Evidence Week at UK Parliament
Jun 27, 2018
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Dr Clare Taylor, Senior Lecturer in the School of Applied Sciences, was an invited panel member for the event 'Too much evidence or not enough?' organised by Society for Applied Microbiology and Sense About Science as part of the first ever Evidence Week at UK Parliament. Dr Taylor was joined by Elaine Williams (Research Director at the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre) and Juliet Tizzard (Director of Policy at the Health Research Authority). The discussion featured funding, accessibility, and transparency of health research, in addition to engagement with public and policy audiences on hot topics including drug-resistant infections and vaccines.
