Dr Joe Rigby
Senior Lecturer; Sociology
I joined the Department of Social and Political Science in 2012 whilst completing my PhD research in the politics of border control in contemporary Europe. Since then I have continued to develop my research interests in this area, in particular surrounding the relationship between the social construction of a ‘problem of immigration,’ the current crisis of neoliberal hegemony, and the politics of race and whiteness in post-colonial Britain.
I was awarded a PhD in Sociology from Lancaster University in October 2014. Entitled The Excess of Migration my thesis sought to critically analyse the politics of immigration in contemporary Britain, drawing out the connections between the social construction of a ‘problem of immigration’ and wider processes of social and ideological change associated with neoliberal globalization. My supervisors were John Urry and Bülent Diken.
My PhD research involved activist research methods, working with the ‘no border’ network both in Britain and the French port of Calais. I co-authored an article with Raphael Schlembach on the politics of border control in Calais, published in Citizenship Studies in 2013.
Since completing my PhD research I have used my teaching role at the University of Chester to further develop my thinking in this area, particularly in relation to questions of whiteness, Eurocentricism and colonialism/post-colonialism.
I am the module leader for the first year module Welfare Politics, and International Political Sociology and the second year module Race and the Modern World
I was awarded a PhD in Sociology from Lancaster University in October 2014. Entitled The Excess of Migration my thesis sought to critically analyse the politics of immigration in contemporary Britain, drawing out the connections between the social construction of a ‘problem of immigration’ and wider processes of social and ideological change associated with neoliberal globalization. My supervisors were John Urry and Bülent Diken.
My PhD research involved activist research methods, working with the ‘no border’ network both in Britain and the French port of Calais. I co-authored an article with Raphael Schlembach on the politics of border control in Calais, published in Citizenship Studies in 2013.
Since completing my PhD research I have used my teaching role at the University of Chester to further develop my thinking in this area, particularly in relation to questions of whiteness, Eurocentricism and colonialism/post-colonialism.
Rigby, J. & Schlembach, R. 2013. Impossible Protest: Noborders in Calais. Citizenship Studies, 17, 157-172.
Rigby, J. & Schlembach, R. 2014. Impossible Protest: Noborders in Calais, in Tyler, I and Marciniak, K (Eds.) Protesting Citizenship: Migrant Activisms. Abingdon: Routledge.
Rigby, J. 2017 ‘Border Control,’ and ‘Globalization,’ entries in Morley, S., Turner, J., Corteen, K., & Taylor, P. (Eds) A companion to state power, liberties and rights. Bristol, United Kingdom: Policy Press.
- 2005 - BA (Hons) Politics, Philosophy and Economics, University of Oxford
- 2007 - MA Sociological Research, Lancaster University
- 2014 - PhD, Lancaster University