Dr Lisa Palmer

Senior Lecturer in Sociology

School of Social Sciences

Email:: Lisa.Palmer@bcu.ac.uk
Phone:: +44 (0)121 331 6624

Lisa Palmer previously worked as a Lecturer in Working with Children, Young People and Families at Newman University. Before this, she also worked as a Librarian for Birmingham Libraries and Archives. Her research interests include Black Studies in Britain, the cultural politics of Lover's Rock music; community archiving and heritage; the intersections of gender, sexuality, racism and decoloniality.

Areas of Expertise

Memberships

Teaching

Publications

Blackness in Britain, co-editor with Dr Kehinde Andrews. Routledge (forthcoming 2016)· ‘Men Cry too - Masculinity and the feminization of lovers’ rock.’ Book chapter in Black Popular Music in Britain since 1945, ed. Jon Straton and Nabeel Zuberi . Ashgate (2014).· ‘Why Black Studies Matters’, Discover Society. Issue 2. November 2013
“‘LADIES, A YOUR TIME NOW!’ Erotic Politics, Lovers Rock and Resistance in Britain" in Archipelagos of Sound: Transnational Caribbeanities: Women and Music. Ed. Ifeona Fulani: New York: University of the West Indies 2012.
“‘LADIES, A YOUR TIME NOW!’ Erotic Politics, Lovers Rock and Resistance in Britain." In African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal. Volume 4, issue 2, 2011.Special issue on Being Black and Becoming European: Un/Settled Migration and Hidden Histories (Routledge).

Conference Organisation

Blackness in Britain: The Black Special Relationship. Birmingham City University, 2015.
Blackness in Britain: Newman University, 2013.

Papers

Between Lover’s Rock and a Hard Place - Delineating the Decolonial Impulses of Lover’s Rock Reggae Music in Britain. Sociology in and trough the Global South. Sociology Review Foundation. March 2016
Rock the Rhythm Lovers Rock and the cultural politics of decoloniality. Decolonising the Academy Seminar and Conference. Global Development Academy and the Centre for Contemporary Latin American Studies. The University of Edinburgh. February 2016.
Reading Vanley Burke through the lens of Walter Rodney – Blackness in Britain Conference 2015. Birmingham City University.
‘Each One Teach One’ Black intellectual life beyond the academy - ESRC workshop ‘The role of intellectual life in struggles for racial justice’, September 2015.
Decolonising the Curriculum NUS Black Student Conference, May 2015
Conversations on Race in British Universities.Surviving White Institutional Spaces. University of Leeds, May 2015.
Decolonising the Cannon. BSA Teaching Conference BCU, March 2015
‘Embedding Black Studies Possibilities and Challenges’ - Why isn’t my professor Black? Panel at University College London, March 2014.
The Right’s colonization of racial victimisation - BSA Race Ethnicity Study Group Conference, mapping the Field: Contemporary Theories of Race, Racism and Ethnicity, Newman University January 2014.
Lovers Rock and Resistance – National Women’s Association Conference. Oakland, California 2012
Blackness and Austerity. Birmingham TUC. October 2012
Reverend Peter Stanford – Birmingham’s First Black Minister’ Birmingham Library and Archives – October 2011.

‘Obamanation!’ - Navigating Race and Blackness in “post-racial America” Obama: The First 300 Days. Conference paper presented at the University of Birmingham, October 2009.
‘Erotic Politics – Lovers Rock and Resistance’ – Conference: MEMORY/POSTMEMORY, MUSIC & IDENTITY: The Construction of a Diasporic Black Caribbean Experience. University of Warwick, April 2009.
‘Loving Blackness in Britain’ – Conference: Black Knowledges - Black Struggles – Civil Rights: Transnational Perspectives for The Collegium of African American Research 8^th annual conference.University of Bremen, Germany, March 25- 29 2009.