Dr Nanneke Redclift, University of London Research Fellow (January to April 2007)
Dr Nanneke Redclift is a member of the Department of Anthropology , at the University College London (UCL). Dr Redclift was awarded the University of London Research Fellowship at the School of Advanced Study for four months, between January and April 2007.
She can be contacted at n.redclift@ucl.ac.uk.
Dr Redclift is a Mexican specialist (The politics of knowledge, history, and identity in Latin America) and is interested in such fields as the anthropology of the body, gender and sexuality and cultural dimensions of biotechnology.
Details on her research interests and publications can be viewed on the UCL page
Her fellowship enabled her to complete a research project in S.E. Mexico and a book. Well-versed in the anthropology of Yucatan, where she did her ethonographic research, Dr Redclift argued that what anthropologists have to contribute to the study of "politics" in a broad sense in Latin America should be based on an expanded definition of what the "political" is in that context, one that focuses on the more subterranean processes occurring at the level of every day life and cultural shifts that do not find a direct expression in political action, but nevertheless have crucial long-term political consequences. The book (see title of the Dean's seminar below) would prove to be very valuable in postgraduate teaching addressing one of the crucial interfaces between current developments in social anthropology and other fields of the humanities.
Dr Redclift gave a paper at the Dean's Seminar, on Wednesday 21st March. at 12.30 entitled 'The politics of the imagination: unfinished histories in S.E. Mexico'.
View Dr Redclift's fellowship report.
