- Name:
- Flora Hastings
- Email address:
- 675265@soas.ac.uk
- Thesis title:
- Public-Facing Jewishness: Exploring shifting Jewish politics, practises and spaces in Barcelona
- Website:
- https://florahastings.com/
Internal Supervisors
Biography
My research explores left-leaning Jewish politics and culture in Barcelona, with a specific interest in Jewish-Muslim relations, cultural economics and social memory. I have also recently written a literary novel, drawing from my anthropological research on Jewish and Muslim life in Spain, which I am seeking representation for.
Some of my current research interests include: comparative Jewish and Muslim anthropology; inter-minority politics; post-industrial labour markets; migration and contemporary European identity; democratisation processes; public space; embodied ethics; diasporic networks and grassroots social memory formation.
Along with Dr Adi Bharat and Katharine Halls, I am a co-ordinator of the Jewish-Muslim Research Network, which (amongst other events) organises a monthly reading group and seminars comparatively exploring Jewish and Muslim identity, Judaism and Islam and ‘Jewish-Muslim’ relations.