Charles Leddy-Owen

Invisible Presence: the Husband in Transnational Marriage in Globalisation

29th June 2017 Charles Leddy-Owen Blogs

Blog by Dr. Isabelle Cheng, Senior Lecturer in East Asian and International Development Studies, University of Portsmouth ‘Where are you now? I’m on my way!’ My eyes were searching for a figure in plain T-shirt and baggy trousers, so I was not sure, until she waved at me, if the woman appearing in a fitting dress and high heels was indeed Hồ Minh Mai. I had lost count of our meetings since our first, in 2009, at Minh Mai’s second-hand bookshop in this narrow alley in southern Taiwan. I could not tell, either, how many times I visited Ngô Xuân Phuong

CRaB Long Read: Researching Christian Minority Experience in Lahore: Communal Violence in the Muslim Zion

21st April 2017 Charles Leddy-Owen Blogs

Article by Dr Naheem Jabbar, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Portsmouth: correspondence email: naheem.jabbar@port.ac.uk. On Easter Sunday last year, in Gulshan-e-Iqbal, a dehshat gard or suicide bomber killed 72 people, including 29 children in the city of Lahore. The message by Jamaat-ul-Ahra (Assembly of the Free), one of Pakistan’s numerous terrorist groups, to the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was directed both to Pakistan’s approximate 2% Christians in a nation of 180 million and locally, to Lahoris, in the Punjab, the ruling party’s home province: “We have carried out this attack to target the Christians who were celebrating Easter.

Lexie Scherer shortlisted for British Sociological Association prize

29th March 2017 Charles Leddy-Owen News, News and Events

One of CRaB’s members, Lexie Scherer from the School of Education and Childhood Studies, has been nominated for the British Sociological Association’s Philip Abram’s Memorial Prize for the best first and sole-authored book within the discipline of Sociology. The book, entitled Children, Literacy and Ethnicity: Reading Identities in the Primary School is published by Palgrave Macmillan and was launched in Portsmouth at a CRaB event in 2016 – http://crab.port.ac.uk/2016/11/11/booklaunch-for-lexie-scherers-children-literacy-and-ethnicity/ Congratulations to Lexie! The full shortlist is available here – https://www.britsoc.co.uk/opportunities/bsa-philip-abrams-memorial-prize/