Professor Steve Fenton
BA (Hull), MA (McMaster), PhD (Duke)
12 Woodland Road, Bristol, BS8 1UQ, UK: office at 3, Priory Road
Tel: 0117 928 7689
Email: steve.fenton@bristol.ac.uk
Research Interests
Steve Fenton writes and researches on national identity, ethnicity: on comparative ethnicities, theories of ethnicity, the ethnic majority, British national identity
He has also researched in the following areas: ethnic differences in the experience of mental health and illness; higher education and ethnic inequalities; young adults and labour markets.
Current Research
Globalisation: the case of Academic Staff (with Claire Smetherham and Tariq Modood)
National Class and Ressentiment (with Robin Mann)
Current Teaching
Postgraduate: Global Ethnicities; Theories of Ethnicity and Racism
Recent Publications
- Personal Contexts of National Sentiments (with Robin Mann), 2008, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, forthcoming
- Indifference towards national identity: what young adults think about being English and British, 2007, Nations and Nationalism, 31 (2) 1-19
- Race and Nation, 2006, in Kumar and Delanty eds., Handbook of Nations and Nationalism, Sage
- ‘Explaining Ethnicity’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 30 (4) (2004).
- ‘Beyond ethnicity: The global comparative analysis of ethnic conflict?’, International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 45 (3/4) (2004).
- Ethnicity (Polity 2003)
- 'Malaysia and capitalist modernisation: Plural and multicultural models', International Journal on Multicultural Societies 5:2, 137-149 (2003)
- Ethnicity and Economy (Palgrave 2002, edited with Bradley)
- Ethnonational Identities (Palgrave 2002, edited with Stephen May)
- Ethnicity: Racism Class and Culture (1999) Palgrave/Macmillan.