Pitcher, Dr Ben
| Title: |
Lecturer in Sociology |
| Department: |
Social and Historical Studies |
| Address: |
Room 511, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW |
| Tel: |
+44 (0)20 7911 5000 ext 2116 |
| Email: |
b.pitcher@westminster.ac.uk |
| Website: |
http://sites.google.com/site/pitcherben |
| Office Hours: |
Wednesdays 2 - 4pm |
Biography
Ben Pitcher is lecturer in sociology in the Department of Social and Historical Studies. He studied at Goldsmiths, Lancaster University and the University of East London, and has most recently lectured in political sociology at Oxford Brookes University.Ben is the author of The Politics of Multiculturalism, and is associate editor of darkmatter, an online open-access race journal. For more information, and links to online and downloadable publications, follow this link.
Teaching Interests
Ben teaches in sociology, cultural studies and development studies.Recent Interests and Key Outputs
Ben's current research interests include the politics of race and racism and the critical legacies of anti-racism, feminism and gay rights in the current conjuncture. He is currently writing about Barack Obama and the idea of a 'post-black' politics and the relationship between race and neoliberal capitalism.
Publications
Pitcher, B. (forthcoming, 2010) ‘Obama and the Politics of Blackness: anti-racism in the “post-black” conjuncture’, and 'White no longer', Souls 12 (4).
Bramall, R. and Pitcher, B. (forthcoming) ‘Policing the Crisis, or, why we love The Wire’.
Pitcher, B. (forthcoming, 2010) ‘Radical Subjects After Hegemony’, Subjectivity 3(4) (in press).
Pitcher, B. (2009) 'The Global Politics of Multiculturalism', Development 52(4): 456-9.
Pitcher, B. (2009) 'The Problem with White Trash’, Cultural Studies 23(3): 446-9.
Pitcher, B. (2009) 'The Politics of Multiculturalism: Race and Racism in Contemporary Britain', Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Pitcher, B. and Gunkel, H. (2008) 'Editorial: Racism in the Closet - Interrogating Postcolonial Sexuality' in Racism in the Closet: Interrogating Postcolonial Sexuality, darkmatter (3).
Pitcher, B., Puar J. and Gunkel, H. (2008) 'Q&A with Jasbir Puar' in Racism in the Closet: Interrogating Postcolonial Sexuality, darkmatter (3).
Pitcher, B. (2008) 'The Materiality of Race Theory' in Race/Matter: Materialism and the Politics of Racialization, darkmatter (2).
Pitcher, B. (2006) ‘“Are You Thinking What We’re Thinking?” Immigration, Multiculturalism and the Disavowal of Racism in the Run-up to the 2005 British General Election’, Social Semiotics 16(4): 535-51.
Research Papers
Mar 2010 'Post-black, post-race? Anti-racism after Obama', paper given as part of the SHS Open Seminar Series, University of Westminster.Nov 2009 (with R. Bramall) 'Policing the Crisis, or, Why We Love The Wire', paper given at The Wire as Social Science Fiction conference, Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change, Leeds. There's some discussion of this on the Guardian society blog.
Nov 2009 'Black presidents and other problems: anti-racism and the challenge of hegemony', paper given at Department of International Relations, Politics and Sociology Seminar, Oxford Brookes University.
June 2009 'Developing transnational race theory', paper given at Critical Race Theory in the UK conference, Institute of Education.
May 2009 'Thinking about race and racism with cultural studies', paper given at New Research in Cultural Studies event, Centre for Cultural Studies Research, UEL.
Feb 2009 'Race and racism after anti-racism', paper given at Postcolonial Ethnicity, Visuality and Cultural Politics conference, Cardiff University.