PhD Candidate, Lancaster University
I am a PhD student in Sociology at Lancaster University, funded by the ESRC and the AHRC. My doctoral research is concerned with the ways in which the contemporary British monarchy is represented in media culture, and the cultural meanings and ideologies circulating through monarchical imaginaries. My project is concerned in particular with the role of the monarchy in naturalizing powerful classed and gendered hierarchies through popular culture, and will consider how discourses of classed power in Britain are manifest in the (re)production and (re)appropriation of images of the royal institution; and what the quotidian construction, mediation and consumption of these images reveals about the organization of British social, political and cultural life.
Five ways the monarchy has benefited from colonialism and slavery
Mar 27, 2022 14:23 pm UTC| Insights & Views
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridges tour of the Caribbean for the Queens Platinum Jubilee has been criticised over the royals connection to colonialism and slavery. An open letter by Jamaican public figures says: We see...
Prince Philip retires ... with a final masterclass in media manipulation
May 05, 2017 00:52 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Buckingham Palaces announcement that Prince Philip is retiring in the autumn is a masterclass in triggering media spectacle. Media industries around the world instantly went into meltdown over what is actually a fairly...
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