School of Geography - Faculty of Environment

RESEARCH OVERVIEW

Dr Joanna Sadgrove’s research interests focus on religion and sexuality with a particular interest in Africa (Uganda, South Africa). Working across the disciplines of anthropology, religious studies and geography her African research has focused on sexuality and religious identities in relation to HIV prevention and homosexuality. She is particularly interested in how western discourses of sexuality and sexual identity are mediated in African social and religious contexts.

CURRENT PROJECTS

Living with Difference in Europe: Making communities out of strangers in an era of hyper-mobility and super-diversity. LIVEDIFFERENCE

Project B: Lived Experience: the Transmission of Attitudes Towards Difference

RESEARCH AFFILIATIONS

• Citizenship and Belonging
• Leeds University Centre for African Studies (LUCAS)

PUBLICATIONS

• Vanderbeck, R.M., Andersson, J., Valentine, G., Sadgrove, J., and Ward, K. (2011 in press) ‘Sexuality, activism, and witness in the Anglican Communion: the 2008 Lambeth Conference of Anglican Bishops’. Annals of the Association of American Geographers.
• Anderson, J., Vanderbeck, R.M., Valentine, G., Ward, K., and Sadgrove, J. (2011 in press) ‘New York encounters: religion, sexuality, and the city’. Environment and Planning A. (Accepted in final form in October 2010: 9230 words)

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