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Professor of Sociology & Anthropology

Telephone : +44 (0)20 8392 3198
Email : J.Eade@roehampton.ac.uk
Department : Social Sciences
Office location : Hirst 203

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Qualifications

MA DipSocAnthr Mlitt PhD

About

John Eade is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology and former Executive Director of CRONEM (Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism) which links Roehampton and the University of Surrey. After research in Kolkata (Calcutta) on the social identity of the educated Bengali Muslim middle class, he completed his PhD in 1986 on Bangladeshi community politics in Tower Hamlets. Since then he has researched the Islamisation of urban space, globalisation and the global city, travel and pilgrimage, forced marriage, black Methodists in London, and Bangladeshi identity politics.

He is currently working with Dr Michal Garapich and Jamil Iqbal on a EU Leonardo da Vinci project designed to help migrant workers improve their access to the labour market. The other partners in the project are Autremonde and iriv in Paris, Oikodrom in Vienna, the New Bulgarian University in Sofia and the University of Burgos in Spain.

As Executive Director of CRONEM, he worked with Dr Ann David and Dr David Garbin on a Ford Foundation/SSRC study of religious communities in London, which linked with similar research in Johannesburg and Durban with Prof Thomas Hansen and in Kuala Lumpur with Prof Diana Wong; with colleagues at the University of Leeds and elsewhere on an AHRC Diaspora, Migrants and Identity project on the British Asian city; with Dr B. Shah who gained a three year ESRC Research Fellowship and was based at Cronem through Roehampton. He also developed Cronem Consulting with a multilingual, multidisciplinary team including Michal Garapich, Sean Carey, Irina Chongarova and Joanna Krotofil. Projects have been completed for various London boroughs as well as for Surrey Police and IPPR.

He has completed with Dr Stephen Drinkwater and Michal Garapich an ESRC-funded study of Polish migrants in London, which was assessed as outstanding; with Prof Martyn Barrett (Surrey), Dr Marco Cinnirella (Royal Holloway) and Dr David Garbin a Leverhulme-funded study of British Bangladeshi and mixed heritage adolescent identity; mentored Dr Georgie Wemyss as an ESRC post-doctoral fellow; concluded a British Academy-funded network with Prof S. Gupta (Open),Prof C. Flood (Surrey), Y. Valkanova (Roehampton)and colleagues in Bulgaria on flows of people, information and images between Britain and Bulgaria, completed with Swadhinata, a British Bangladeshi heritage groups, an oral history project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund. (For further details see www.surrey.ac.uk/Arts/CRONEM) and supported another oral heritage project on Congolese refugees in London led by David Garbin in collaboration with CORECOG.

Research Project Undertaken

2007-2010: mentored Dr B. Shah on her ESRC Research Fellowship.

2006-2009: a study of black Pentecostalists, Muslims and Hindus in London as part of a wider study in S. Africa and Malaysia funded by the Ford Foundation and SSRC, New York.

2007-2009: contributed to AHRC Diaspora Networks project led by Dr S. McLoughlin and others at the University of Leeds.

2008-2009 Supported Dr D. Garbin on the oral history project with Congolese families in London funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and in collaboration with CORECOG.

2006-2007 British Academy-funded project with Prof S. Gupta (Open) and colleagues at Plovdiv University, Bulgaria, on flows of people and information between Britain and Bulgaria.

2006-2007 health inequality study with Ritoo Banersee and Brent PCT.

2005-2007 mentored Dr Georgie Wemyss on her ESRC Post Doctoral Fellowship.

2005-2006 ESRC-funded study of class and ethnicity among Polish migrants in London with Dr. S. Drinkwater (Surrey) and Dr. M. Garapich.

2005-2006 study of British Bangladeshi and mixed heritage adolescent identity with Prof Martyn Barrett (Surrey), Dr Marco Cinnirella (Royal Holloway) and Dr David Garbin, funded by the Leverhulme Trust.

2005-2006 supported Swadhinata, a British Bangladeshi heritage groups, on an oral history project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund

2004-2005 study of British Gujarati early childrearing beliefs and practices with Dr Begum Maitra (consultant psychiatrist, Hackney) supported by Brent PCT and the Joint Innovation Fund.

ESRC 2002-2004: with Dr Camille O'Reilly (Roehampton University) Global Nomads: Movement, Place and Identity in Long-Haul Independent Travel.

ESRC 2001-2002: with Professor Sallie Westwood (University of Manchester): globalisation and links between Britain and Bangladesh.


Research Funding 

For current projects see outline above

ESRC 2002-2004: with Dr Camille O'Reilly (Roehampton University) Global Nomads: Movement, Place and Identity in Long-Haul Independent Travel.

ESRC 2001-2002: with Professor Sallie Westwood (University of Manchester): globalisation and links between Britain and Bangladesh.

Membership of Professional Bodies

British Sociological Association
Secretary of Heads and Professors of Sociology (HAPS)
Royal Anthropological Institute
Association of Social Anthropologists of UK and the Commonwealth
American Sociological Association
International Sociological Association
Global Studies Association

Consultancies Undertaken

Developed Cronem Consultancy with a team including Dr M. Garapich, Prof I. Chongarova, Dr O. Jensen, S. Carey and J. Krotofil. Projects have been undertaken for Greenwich, Hammersmith and Fulham, Lewisham, Merton and Redbridge borough councils and for Surrey Police and DSTL.

Co-authored report with Dr Sean Carey, Dr Michal Garapich, Dr David

Garbin and Joanna Krotofil for Merton Borough Council on Preventing Violent Extremism.

Co-authored report with Dr David Garbin for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on the Bangladeshi diaspora's political beliefs.

Co-authored report with Dr Yunas Samad (Bradford) for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on 'forced marriage' amonng British Pakistanis and Bangladeshis.

Teaching Interests

Globalisation, transnationalism and urban change; minority ethnic groups in Britain; travel and pilgrimage in Europe.

Publications

J.Eade (2010) ‘Debating fundamentalisms in the global city', in N. AlSayyad and M. Massoumi (eds), The Fundamentalist City (Routledge).
J.Eade (2010) 'Diasporas and Cities', in K. Knott and S. McLoughlin (eds), Diasporas: Concepts, Intersections, Identities (Zed Press), 107-111.
S. Drinkwater and M. Garapich (2010) What’s behind the figures? An investigation into recent Polish migration to the UK’ , A Continent Moving West? EU enlargement and labour migration from Central and Eastern Europe (Amsterdam University Press).
J. Eade and Y. Valkanova (2009) Accession and Migration: Changing Policy, Society and Culture in an Enlarged Europe, Ashgate.
J. Eade and Y. Valkanova (2009) 'Introduction', Accession and Migration: Changing Policy, Society, and Culture
J. Eade and M. Garapich (2009) Roots and Routes: Permanent Settlement and Circular Migration in the EU, In: G. Koch & A. Franke (eds), Kulturelle Vielfalt als Gestaltungsaufgabe: Ethnologische Beiträge aus diversen Praxisfeldern (St. Ingbert: Röhrig Verlag), 33-45.
J. Eade (2007) ‘Economic Migrants or Hyphenated British? Writing about difference in S. Gupta and T. Omoniyi (eds), The New Orders of Difference: Cultural Discourses and Texts of Economic Migration in Europe, Asia, and Africa , Aldershot: Ashgate..
Begum, H. and Eade, J. (2005) All Quiet on the Eastern Front? Bangladeshi reactions in Tower Hamlets, T. Abbas (ed.), Muslim Britain Communities under Pressure; London/New York: Zed Press, 179-193.
Eade, J. and O'Byrne, D. (eds) (2005) Global Ethics and Civil Society, Aldershot: Ashgate, 180 pp.
Eade, J. (2002) Adventure Tourists and Locals in a Global City: Resisting Tourist Performances in London's 'East End', S. Coleman and M. Crang (eds) Tourism: Between Place and Performance, New York: Berghahn Book, pp128-139
Eade, J. (2002) How Far Can You Go? English Catholic Elites and the Erosion of Ethnic Boundaries, C. Shore (ed.) Elite Cultures: Anthropological Perspectives, London/New York: Routledge, Eds. C Shore & S Nugent, 209-226.
Eade, J., Fremeaux, I. and Garbin, D. (2002) The Political Construction of Diasporic Communities in the Global City, P. Gilbert (ed.) Imagined Londons, Albany, USA: State University of New York Press, pp159-176.
(2002) Understanding the City: Contemporary and Future Perspectives, C. Mele and J. Eade (eds), Oxford: Blackwell, 340pp.
Eade, J. (2000) Placing London: From Imperial Capital to Global City, Berghahn Books.
Eade, J. (1997) Identity, Nation and Religion: Educated Young Bangladeshis in London's East End, J. Eade (ed.), Living the Global City: Globalization as Social Process, London and New York: Routledge, pp146-162.
Eade, J. (1997) Introduction, Living the Global City: Globalization as Social Process, London and New York: Routledge, pp1-19.
(1997) Living the Global City: Globalization as Social Process, Eade, J. (ed), London and New York: Routledge, 196pp.
Eade, J. (1997) Reconstructing Places: Changing Images of Locality in Docklands and Spitalfields, J. Eade (ed.), Living the Global City: Globalization as Social Process, London and New York: Routledge, pp127-145.
Eade, J. (1997) The Impact of Globalization on Sociological Concepts: Community, Culture and Milieu, in J. Eade (ed.), Living the Global City: Globalization as Social Process, Albrow, M, Durrschmidt, J, Washbourne, N, London and New York: Routledge, pp20-36.
Eade, J. (1997) The Power of the Experts: The Plurality of Beliefs and Practices concerning Health and Illness among Bangladeshis in Contemporary Tower Hamlets, London, in M.Warboys and L. Marks (eds) Migrants, Minorities and Migrants, Minorities and Health: Historical and Contemporary Studies, London and New York: Routledge, pp250-271.
Eade, J., Peach, C. and Vamplew, T. (1996) Bangladeshis in Britain: The Encapsulated Community, C. Peach (ed.) Ethnicity in the 1991 Census, London: HMSO, pp150-160.
Eade, J. (1996) Ethnicity and the Politics of Cultural Difference, in T. Ranger. Y. Samad and O. Stuart (eds.), Culture, Identity and Politics, Aldershot: Avebury.
Eade, J. (1996) Nationalism, Community and the Islamization of Urban Space, Making Muslim Space in North America and Europe, Metcalf, B. (ed), Berkeley: University of California Press, pp217-233.
(1991) Contesting the Sacred: The Anthropology of Christian Pilgrimage, Eade, J. and Sallnow. M, (eds), London: Routledge. Univ of Illinois Press, 2000..
J. Eade (2011) ‘Sacralising Space in a Western, Secular City', Journal of Town and City Management, 2 (1).
J. Eade (2011) From race to religion: multiculturalism and contested urban , J. Beaumont and C. Butler (eds), Post-Secular Cities: Space, Theory.
S. Drinkwater, J. Eade and M. Garapich (2009) Poles Apart? EU enlargement and the labour market outcomes of immigrants in the UK’, International Migration , 47 (1), 161-90.
J. Eade and M. Garapich (2009) 'Settling or Surviving in London? The Experience of Poles and Other , Accession and Migration: Changing Policy, Society and Culture in an Enlarged Europe.
M. Barrett, J. Eade, C. Flood and R. Race (2008) Advancing Multiculturalism, Post 7/7, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, pp. 199
M.P. Smith and J. Eade (2008) Transnational Ties: Cities, Migrations and Identities, Transaction Publishers, pp. 175.
D. Garbin (2007) 'Reinterpreting the relationship between centre and periphery: pilgrimage and sacred spacialisation among Polish and Congolese communities in Britain', Mobilities, 2 (3), 413-424.
J. Eade and D. Garbin (2007) Reinterpreting the relationship between centre and periphery: pilgrimage and sacred spatialisation among Polish and Congolese communities in Britain, Mobilities, 2.
J. Eade (2006) ‘Class and Ethnicity in a Globalising City: Bangladeshis and Contested Urban Space in London's , , 42 (2), 57-70.
Garbin, D (2006) Competing Visions of Identity and Space: Bangladeshe Muslims in Britain, Contemporary South Asia: Taylor & Francis, 181 - 193.
S. Coleman (2004) Introduction: Reframing Pilgrimage, in Reframing Pilgrimage, London and New York:Routledge (EASA Series), pp 1-25.
Eade, J. (2004) Living the Globalizing City: Globalization in the Context of European Urban Development, F. Eckardt and D. Hassenpflug (eds) Urbanism and Globalization, Frankfurt: Peter Lang, pp191-202
Coleman, S.and Eade. J. Introduction (2004) Reframing Pilgrimage, Reframing Pilgrimage: Cultures in Motion: S. Coleman and J. Eade (eds) London and New York: Routledge (EASA Series), 1-25.
Eade, J. and Garbin, D. (2002) Changing Narratives of Violence, Struggle and Resistance: Bangladeshis and the Competition for Resources in the Global City, Oxford Development Studies, Carfax Publishing, 30:2, 137-149.
Eade, J. and Mele, C. (2002) Understanding the City, J. Eade and C. Mele (eds) Understanding the City: Contemporary and Future Perspectives, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Ltd, (Studies in Urban and Social Change Series), 19pp.
Eade, J. (1997) Keeping the Options Open: Bangladeshis in a Global City, A. Kershen (ed.) London: The Promised Land, Aldershot: Avebury, pp91-105.
(1996) Edited volume of 11 papers on ethnic violence across the world, Allen, T. and Eade, J. (eds), International Journal on Minority and Group Rights, The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 4(3-4), pp215-469.
Eade, J. (1995) Muslims in a 'Green and Pleasant Land' or 'Who Belongs Where?', Critical Survey, 7:2, pp172-82.
Albrow. M., Durrschmidt, J., Eade, J. and. Washbourne. N. (1994) 'The Impact of Globalization on Sociological Concepts: Community, Culture and Milieu, Innovation, 7:4, pp371-89.
Eade, J. (1994) Identity, Nation and Religion: Educated young Bangladeshi Muslims in London's , International Sociology, 9:3, pp377-94.
Eade, J. (1992) Quests for Belonging: Bangladeshis in Tower Hamlets, Where You Belong: Government and Black Politics, Cambridge. A.X, Feuchtwang. S Clarke. J Aldershot: Avebury.
Eade, J. (1990) Nationalism and the Quest for Authenticity: The Bangladeshis in Tower Hamlets, New Community, 16:4.
Eade, J. (1989) The Politics of Commmunity: The Bangladeshi Community in East London, Aldershot: Avebury

D. Garbin (2005) The Bangladeshi Diaspora: Community Dynamics, Transnational Politics and Islamist Activities, London: Foreign and Commonwealth Office, pp 27.

Eade, J. (2004) Rather than making upset, R.Bechler (ed.) Identities on the Move, London: British Council, pp. 10-27.
Eade, J. (2004) Vous avez dit villes globales?, S. Allemand, F. Ascher and J. Levy (eds) Les Sens du Mouvement Paris: Belin, pp. 198-206.
Eade, J. and Samad, Y. (2002) Community Perceptions of Forced Marriage, London: Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 114pp..
(1993) The Political Articulation of Community and the Islamisation of Space, Barot. R, ed., Religion and Ethnicity: Minorities and Social Change in the Metropolis, Kampen, The Netherlands: Kok Pharos

Albrow. M., Eade, J., Fennell, G. and.O'Byrne, D. (1994) Global/Local Relations in a London Borough: Shifting Boundaries and Localities, London: Roehampton Institute Department of Sociology and Social Policy.
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