School of Business and Social Sciences

Prof John Eade

Job Title: Professor of Sociology & Anthropology

Qualifications: MA DipSocAnthr Mlitt PhD

Telephone: +44 (0)20 8392 3198

Email Address: J.Eade@roehampton.ac.uk

John Eade is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology as well as 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.

As Executive Director of CRONEM, he is currently working with Dr Ann David and Dr David Garbin on a Ford Foundation/SSRC study of religious communities in London, which links 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; working with Dr B. Shah who has gained a three year ESRC Research Fellowship and will be linked to Cronem through Roehampton. He is also developing Cronem Consulting witha multilingual, multidisciplinary team including Michal Garapich, Sean Carey, Irina Chongarova and Joanna Krotofil. Projects are being undertaken or 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.

Subjects Taught

Urban ethnicity, migration, pilgrimage, anthropology and politics

Research Projects

2007 onwards: mentoring Dr B. Shah on her ESRC Research Fellowship.

June 2006 onwards: 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.

February 2007 onwards: contributing 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.

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

September 2005-August 2007 mentoring Dr Georgie Wemyss on her ESRC Post Doctoral Fellowship.

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

April 2005- March 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.

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

June 2004-June 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.

Expertise

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

Professional links

Memberships:

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

Publications

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 .

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 .

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) 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 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.

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..

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.

(2006) 'The Brick Lane test', From Embracing Globalisation to the Limits of Tolerance, 78-91.

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.

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

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.

Eade, J. (2004) Rather than making upset, R.Bechler (ed.) Identities on the Move, London: British Council, pp. 10-27.

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. (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. (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. 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 Samad, Y. (2002) Community Perceptions of Forced Marriage, London: Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 114pp..

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.

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.

(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.

Eade, J. (1997) Keeping the Options Open: Bangladeshis in a Global City, A. Kershen (ed.) London: The Promised Land, Aldershot: Avebury, pp91-105.

(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.

(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. (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.

Eade, J. (1995) Muslims in a 'Green and Pleasant Land' or 'Who Belongs Where?', Critical Survey, 7:2, pp172-82.

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.

Eade, J. (1994) Identity, Nation and Religion: Educated young Bangladeshi Muslims in London's , International Sociology, 9:3, pp377-94.

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.

(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.

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.

(1991) Contesting the Sacred: The Anthropology of Christian Pilgrimage, Eade, J. and Sallnow. M, (eds), London: Routledge. Univ of Illinois Press, 2000..

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.