Professor Jon Fox
B.A. (Beloit), M.A. (UCLA), Ph.D. (UCLA)
Current positions
Professor of Sociology
School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
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Research interests
Jon’s main areas of research are in nationalism, ethnicity, racism, and migration. With each topic, he is interested in the ways in which ordinary people reproduce ethnic, national, and racialised forms of collective belonging in their everyday lives. Whilst appreciating the important role politics, culture, and the economy play in shaping social identities, Jon’s research pays special attention to the ways such identities are also the practical accomplishments of ordinary people engaging in routine activities. His research to date has examined these issues around questions of nationalism and migration in Hungary, Romania, and the UK.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Everyday Integration
Principal Investigator
Description
The project Everyday Integration: the local contexts, practices and mobilities of integration aims to reinvent integration from the bottom up. It will capture and build on the experiences and best…Managing organisational unit
School of Sociology, Politics and International StudiesDates
02/10/2019 to 31/07/2023
Everyday Integration
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Sociology, Politics and International StudiesDates
01/10/2019 to 31/03/2022
Tolerance, Pluralism and Social Cohesion: Responding to the Challenges of the 21st Century in Europe
Role
Researcher
Description
ACCEPT PLURALISM is a new project, funded by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme. The project aims to investigate whether European societies have become more or less…Managing organisational unit
School of Sociology, Politics and International StudiesDates
01/03/2010 to 31/05/2013
HUNGARIAN AND ROMANIAN MIGRANT WORKERS IN THE UK: RACISM WITHOUT RACIAL DIFFERENCE?
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Sociology, Politics and International StudiesDates
01/03/2009 to 01/03/2011
Thesis supervisions
Lived diversities of conditional citizens
Supervisors
Living as One United Peoples
Supervisors
De-ethnicisation of Politics in Malaysia
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
14/10/2024Clapping the nation, or, from a global pandemic tonational imaginaries via local solidarities
Nations and Nationalism
Just how rooted is Grounded Nationalisms?
Irish Journal of Sociology
Pathological integration, or, how East Europeans use racism to become British
British Journal of Sociology
National indifference and the History of Nationalism in Modern Europe
National indifference and the History of Nationalism in Modern Europe
Banal Nationalism in everyday life
Nations and Nationalism
