# Cultures, Identities and Divisions

**Source**: https://www.brookes.ac.uk/research/units/hss/groups/cultures-identities-and-divisions
**Parent**: https://www.brookes.ac.uk/engage-and-innovate/consultancy

Group Leader(s):
[Dr Lili Schwoerer](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/profiles/staff/lili-schworer)

Contact:

[lschwoerer@brookes.ac.uk](mailto:lschwoerer@brookes.ac.uk)

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## About us

This is an interdisciplinary group which focuses on the empirical and theoretical investigations into multiple facets of cultures, identities and divisions. The interests of the group:

- span personal, collective, national/global identity formations
- interrogate the dynamics of power, capitalism, spatiality, temporality, inclusion, exclusion, agency and ethics.

The discursive and historical-material constitution of ‘the social’ inform our conceptual debates alongside a focus on feminist, Marxian, post-colonial and post-structural theory. With this in mind, the group aims to initiate, support and review individual and collaborative research that investigates aspects of the above themes.

### Part of

- [School of Social Sciences](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/about-brookes/structure-and-governance/faculties-and-schools/social-sciences "School of Social Sciences")
- [Centre for Global Politics, Economy and Society (GPES)](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/research/units/hss/centres/centre-for-global-politics-economy-and-society)

## Research impact

The group encourages research across disciplines and research methods, and hosts the following activities:

- presenting and reviewing work-in-progress by group members or guests
- commenting on grant applications
- sharing research expertise and practical support
- hosting reading groups
- generating external grant applications
- generating internal funding bids to hold events and/or workshops
- fostering co-operation with external partners.

Recent presented papers which have subsequently been published include:

- Neal Harris and Gerard Delanty (Sussex), [Critical theory and the question of technology: The Frankfurt School revisited, *Thesis Eleven*](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/07255136211002055)
- Owen Brown, 'Connection Lost: FALC, Critical Theory, and Psychoanalysis', forthcoming in *Thinking Beyond Neoliberalism* (Palgrave, 2021, part of [*Philosophy and Public Purpose*](https://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14542#:~:text=This%20series%20offers%20books%20that,in%20social%20and%20political%20criticism.&text=The%20idea%20of%20philosophy%20emphasized,as%20well%20as%20informed%20praxis.)).
- Peter Lugosi et al, Creating Family Friendly Pub Experiences: A Composite Data Study, [*International Journal of Hospitality Management*](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0278431920302425)

## Leadership

### Dr Lili Schwoerer

- [01865 483716](tel:01865 483716)
- [lschwoerer@brookes.ac.uk](mailto:lschwoerer@brookes.ac.uk)

Lecturer in Sociology

[View profile  for Lili Schwoerer](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/profiles/staff/lili-schworer)

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