School of Social and Political Sciences

Dr Andrew Smith

  • Senior Lecturer (Sociology)

telephone: 01413305267
email: Andrew.Smith.2@glasgow.ac.uk


Research interests           

My main area of interest is the study of literature, and of culture more generally, in the colonial and postcolonial contexts. My doctoral research involved empirical work with the Nigerian expatriate community in the West of Scotland, and an investigation of the experiences of authors and artists working in Nigeria, and I have been involved with the discussion of the concepts of cultural hybridity, diaspora and migration in recent social and cultural theory.

More recently I have published a number of articles on the West Indian writer C.L.R. James, culminating in a book - C.L.R. James and the Study of Culture - which was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2010. This was subsequently shortlisted for the British Sociological Association Philip Abrams prize for 2011. Two recent reviews, from the Caribbean Review of Books, and from Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, can be found at the links below:

http://caribbeanreviewofbooks.com/crb-archive/26-march-2011/culture-matters/

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/1369801X.2011.597604

Another essay, which discusses and compares James' writing on culture and black politics was published in the December 2011 issue of Cultural Sociology and was subsequently the winner of the British Sociological Association / Sage Prize for Innovation/Excellence 2012:

http://www.britsoc.co.uk/publications/sage-prize-for-innovationexcellence.aspx

More recent work considers the history of the representation of imperial defeats, and of the wider significance of tropes of embattlement, captivity and besiegement in understandings of empire.  An essay on these questions is the lead article in the April/June 2012 issue of Race and Class: http://rac.sagepub.com/content/current

I have also published an essay in New Left Review which reflects on personal experience in order to (rather speculatively) offer some thoughts about the peculiar nature of the social relationship which exists between service sector workers and their customers.

                                 

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Number of items: 16.

2012

Smith, A. (2012) Hemmed in: on the representation of imperial defeat. Race and Class, 53 (4). pp. 1-23. ISSN 0306-3968 (doi:10.1177/0306396811433096)

Smith, A. (2012) On shopworking. New Left Review, 78 . pp. 99-113. ISSN 0028-6060

2011

Smith, A. (2011) C.L.R. James, Vanity Fair and the audience. New Formations, 73 . pp. 11-25. ISSN 0950-2378 (doi:10.3898/NEWF.73.01.2011)

Smith, A. (2011) 'Concrete freedom' : C.L.R. James on culture and black politics. Cultural Sociology, 5 (4). pp. 479-499. ISSN 1749-9755 (doi:10.1177/1749975510391588)

Smith, A. (2011) First and second glances: working class Scottish readers and 'Things fall apart'. In: Whittaker, D. (ed.) Chinua Achebe's 'Things Fall Apart': 1958-2008. Series: Cross/Cultures - Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English (137). Rodopi, Amsterdam, pp. 149-160. ISBN 978-90-420-3396-2

2010

Smith, A. (2010) C.L.R. James and the Study of Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, London. ISBN 9780230220218

2009

Smith, A. (2009) Nigerian scam e-mails and the charms of capital. Cultural Studies, 23 (1). pp. 27-47. ISSN 0950-2386 (doi:10.1080/09502380802016162)

2006

Smith, A (2006) 'Beyond a boundary' (of a 'Field of cultural production') - Reading C.L.R. James with Bourdieu. Theory Culture and Society, 23 (4). p. 95. ISSN 0263-2764 (doi:10.1177/0263276406065116)

Smith, A (2006) 'If I Have No Money for Travel, I Have No Need': Migration and Imagination. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 9 (1). pp. 47-62. ISSN 1367-5494

Smith, A (2006) 'A conception of the beautiful': C. L. R. James' Glasgow Herald cricket articles, 1937-1938. International Journal of the History of Sport, 23 (1). pp. 46-66. ISSN 0952-3367 (doi:10.1177/0263276406065116)

Smith, A. (2006) Migrance, hybridité et études littéraires postcoloniales. In: Lazarus, N. (ed.) Penser le Postcolonial: Une Introduction Critique. Editions Amsterdam, Paris, France. ISBN 9782915547276

2005

Smith, A (2005) Ben Okri and the freedom whose walls are closing in. Race and Class, 47 (1). pp. 1-13. ISSN 0306-3968 (doi:10.1177/0306396805055079)

Smith, A (2005) Distance between you and your home: the estrangement of postcolonial writing. Sociological Review, 53 (2). pp. 275-293. ISSN 0038-0261

Smith, A (2005) Imagined diasporas among Manchester Muslims: The public performance of Pakistani transnational identity politics. Theory Culture and Society, 22 (6). pp. 149-151. ISSN 0263-2764 (doi:10.1177/0263276405059579)

2004

Smith, A (2004) Reading against the postcolonial grain : migrancy and exile in the short stories on Kanchana Ugbabe. Research in African literatures, 35 ((3) fa). pp. 62-75. ISSN 0034-5210

2001

Smith, A (2001) Reading Wealth in Nigeria: Occult Capitalism and Marx's Vampires. Historical Materialism (9). pp. 39-59. ISSN 1465-4466

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Number of items: 16.

Article

Smith, A. (2012) Hemmed in: on the representation of imperial defeat. Race and Class, 53 (4). pp. 1-23. ISSN 0306-3968 (doi:10.1177/0306396811433096)

Smith, A. (2012) On shopworking. New Left Review, 78 . pp. 99-113. ISSN 0028-6060

Smith, A. (2011) C.L.R. James, Vanity Fair and the audience. New Formations, 73 . pp. 11-25. ISSN 0950-2378 (doi:10.3898/NEWF.73.01.2011)

Smith, A. (2011) 'Concrete freedom' : C.L.R. James on culture and black politics. Cultural Sociology, 5 (4). pp. 479-499. ISSN 1749-9755 (doi:10.1177/1749975510391588)

Smith, A. (2009) Nigerian scam e-mails and the charms of capital. Cultural Studies, 23 (1). pp. 27-47. ISSN 0950-2386 (doi:10.1080/09502380802016162)

Smith, A (2006) 'Beyond a boundary' (of a 'Field of cultural production') - Reading C.L.R. James with Bourdieu. Theory Culture and Society, 23 (4). p. 95. ISSN 0263-2764 (doi:10.1177/0263276406065116)

Smith, A (2006) 'If I Have No Money for Travel, I Have No Need': Migration and Imagination. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 9 (1). pp. 47-62. ISSN 1367-5494

Smith, A (2006) 'A conception of the beautiful': C. L. R. James' Glasgow Herald cricket articles, 1937-1938. International Journal of the History of Sport, 23 (1). pp. 46-66. ISSN 0952-3367 (doi:10.1177/0263276406065116)

Smith, A (2005) Ben Okri and the freedom whose walls are closing in. Race and Class, 47 (1). pp. 1-13. ISSN 0306-3968 (doi:10.1177/0306396805055079)

Smith, A (2005) Distance between you and your home: the estrangement of postcolonial writing. Sociological Review, 53 (2). pp. 275-293. ISSN 0038-0261

Smith, A (2005) Imagined diasporas among Manchester Muslims: The public performance of Pakistani transnational identity politics. Theory Culture and Society, 22 (6). pp. 149-151. ISSN 0263-2764 (doi:10.1177/0263276405059579)

Smith, A (2004) Reading against the postcolonial grain : migrancy and exile in the short stories on Kanchana Ugbabe. Research in African literatures, 35 ((3) fa). pp. 62-75. ISSN 0034-5210

Smith, A (2001) Reading Wealth in Nigeria: Occult Capitalism and Marx's Vampires. Historical Materialism (9). pp. 39-59. ISSN 1465-4466

Book

Smith, A. (2010) C.L.R. James and the Study of Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, London. ISBN 9780230220218

Book Section

Smith, A. (2011) First and second glances: working class Scottish readers and 'Things fall apart'. In: Whittaker, D. (ed.) Chinua Achebe's 'Things Fall Apart': 1958-2008. Series: Cross/Cultures - Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English (137). Rodopi, Amsterdam, pp. 149-160. ISBN 978-90-420-3396-2

Smith, A. (2006) Migrance, hybridité et études littéraires postcoloniales. In: Lazarus, N. (ed.) Penser le Postcolonial: Une Introduction Critique. Editions Amsterdam, Paris, France. ISBN 9782915547276

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I supervise, or have supervised, students working in various areas related to my research interests, and am always interested in considering supervision in relation to projects in these areas: cultural sociology inlcuding the sociology of sport; empire, imperialism and postcolonialism; the sociology of racism and anti-racism. My current supervisees are working on the following topics:

  • Representation, development and the Batwa (passed without revision, April 2008)
  • Industrial conflict in Nigerian Universities (passed with minor corrections, February 2011)
  • The Bondo Secret Society: Female circumcision and the Sierra Leonian State (submitted January 2011)
  • The Re-articulation and reassessment of Erich Fromm
  • The Rise of the far-right in Britain
  • Gender, Migrant Labour and AIDS in Pakistan
  • Gaelic speakers and identity in Scotland

From 2009-10, I will be teaching Honours level options on Imperialism, Culture Sociology and Black Radicalism.