Ben Gidley

Ben Gidley is a sociologist (but with a nomadic background in anthropology, urban studies, migration studies and psychosocial studies), working at Birkbeck, University of London. His research for LiminalWater is about the Jamaican writer Claude McKay and his sojourn on the East London docks. His previous research has looked at East London migrant Jewish radicals in the early twentieth century and on Muslim-Jewish encounters in urban neighbourhoods. A selection of his publications includes: “Eating (with) the other: Jewish-Muslim gastronomic encounters” in the European Journal of Cultural Studies, “Why the West's ‘Anti-war’ camp is so hostile to Ukrainians – and to Jews” in Ha'aretz with Jan Rybak, “Postcolonial hauntings in riverine London: conviviality and melancholia” in Patterns of Prejudice, Jews and Muslims in Europe: between discourse and experience with Sami Everett, “'At least the Nazis kept the lights on’: Brexit amnesia airbrushes out genocide in the Channel Islands” in Byline Times, “Getting away from the noise: Jewish-Muslim interactions & narratives in E1/Barbès” in Francospheres with Sami Everett, “Shifting markers of identity in East London's diasporic religious spaces” in Ethnic and Racial Studies with Nazneen Ahmed and others, “Towards a cosmopolitan account of Jewish socialism: class, identity and immigration in Edwardian London” in Socialist History journal 45, “Landscapes of belonging, portraits of life: researching everyday multiculture in an inner city estate” in Identities and “Cousin trouble: Jewish and Muslim ideas of the Other” in Critical Muslim.