Saskia Papadakis Author & Editor

Saskia Papadakis is a researcher and community organiser based in London. She has previously held posts at Royal Holloway, University of London, where she conducted oral histories of the UK environmental movement, and at the University of Manchester, where she researched the British Black Power movement. Her first monograph, Resisting the North-South divide: stories of place and identity in postcolonial England, is forthcoming. With interests in antiracism, migration and oral history, Saskia co-convenes the Postcolonial and Decolonial Transformations study group for the British Sociological Association and is a member of the Ethnic and Racial Studies editorial board.

Meghan Tinsley is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester. Her research sits at the intersection of nationalism, postcolonial and decolonial thought, and the memory of empire. She is the author of Commemorating Muslims in the First World War Centenary: Making Melancholia (Routledge, 2022) and co-editor of The Ethics of Researching the Far Right (2024). Her work has also been published in journals including Identities, Critical Sociology, Current Sociology, Ethnic & Racial Studies, and Postcolonial Studies. She is co-convenor of the British Sociological Association’s Postcolonial and Decolonial Transformations Study Group, and is a member of the editorial boards of Sociology and The Sociological Review.

Ali Meghji is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. His work bridges postcolonial sociology with critical race theory to understand the historical and transnational dimensions of racialization and racism. He is currently completing a monograph on the Du Boisian tradition, before then engaging in a research project exploring the de-Americanisation of Pan-Africanism.