Religion and Poverty, 21 & 22 September 2017

Keynote Speakers

Paul Cloke is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Exeter. He has particular research interests in social and cultural geographies of rurality, nature-society relations, ethics and care, and landscapes of spirituality. His work seeks to ground social theory in a range of places, practices, and performances, focussing most recently on issues relating to nature-places, homelessness, ethical consumption and the staging and performativities of religious faith. He is also Adjunct Professor at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and from 1984-2012 was Founder Editor of Journal of Rural Studies, an international and multidisciplinary journal published by Elsevier Science. He was elected as an Academician of the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences in 2002,  as an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2005 and as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2009. He is the author and editor of several books, including Faith-based organisations and exclusion in European cities (Policy Press 2012), edited together with Justin Beaumont, Swept Up Lives?: Re-envisioning the Homeless City (Wiley 2011), written together with Jon May and Sarah Johnson, and Globalizing Responsibility: the Political Rationalities of Ethical Consumption (Wiley 2010), written together with Clive Barnett, Nick Clarke, and Alice Malpass.

Emma Tomalin is Professor of Religion and Public Life at the University of Leeds, where she is director of the Centre for Religion and Public Life. She has been a member of the American Academy of Religion’s Committee for the Public Understanding of Religion since 2014. Her main research interests are focused around religions and global development and religion, gender, and society. Her articles have been published in Oxford Development Studies and Gender and Development, among others. Her most recent book is The Routledge Handbook of Religions and Global Development (Routledge 2015); she is also the author of Religions and Development (Routledge 2013)  and Gender, Faith and Development (OXFAM 2011), among others, and co-editor of Writing the City in British Asian Diasporas (Routledge 2014).

Panel program & Abstracts

The program included 68 talks in five parallel panels and two keynote talks over the course of two days. A detailed program including a book of abstracts can be read below and downloaded here:

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