Senior lecturer in Sociology, University of Exeter
Paul O’Connor is lecturer in Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Exeter. He received his doctorate studying Muslim youth in Hong Kong and has researched and published on issues of cultural hybridity, ethnicity, and religion. He is also a lifelong skateboarder interested in the mystical and arcane practices of skateboard culture, and author of the book Skateboarding and Religion.
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