Dr. Sophie Niang

Biography

Sophie Marie Niang's research focuses on practices of refusal, community building, and future-making within social groups, examining temporal geographic boundaries. She is currently developing a monograph entitled 'Irrepressible Futures: Black Refusal Prefiguration in Contemporary France,' which interrogates the developments of black cultural practices in France over the past decade. Additionally, her subsequent projects explore children's resistance and liberation from a cultural perspective, tracing the role of cultural practices in the nightlife of West African migrant workers' activist practices in community building in France during the 1970s and 1980s. Before joining King's College London, she served as a Lumley Research Fellow at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, where she completed her doctorate in Sociology. Her areas of expertise include Cultural Studies, Race and Racism in Europe, Prefigurative Politics, Feminist Theory, Queer Color Critique, and Creative Research Methods. Sophie teaches BA Social Sciences and contributes to modules on Understanding the Social World, Advanced Methods in Social Research, and Civil and Political Rights, as well as lecturing on the Arts, Culture, and Education in her MA Education program. She is also open to co-supervising PhD students working on topics related to cultural studies, race, racism, feminist, and queer theory.

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