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Dr Edmunds is a Reader in Sociology and Co-Director of the Ethnicity, Race and Diverse Societies Research Network and she was, until recently, the PGR Convenor for Sociology and Gender Studies and Sociology's SeNSS lead for Sussex. Before coming to Sussex she was a Post Doctoral Fellow and University Lecturer in Sociology and University Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow in Development Studies at the University of Cambridge. She has a PhD from the London School of Economics in political relations between Europe and the Middle East and an LLM in human rights (with Distinction) from Birkbeck, University of London. Dr Edmunds has multiple interlocking research interests which hinge essentially on the exercise of power. Thus, she has focused on development, human rights, citizenship, elites, cosmopolitanism and racism. She is committed to a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. Dr Edmunds is currently working on alliances between feminism and the rise of right wing populism across Europe. She intends to follow this with work on IDF Women in Gaza, 2023-4.

SHORT CV
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

LLM, Human Rights, Birkbeck School of Law, University of London (Distinction)
PhD, London School of Economics and Political Science (ESRC scholarship & the University of London Central Research Fund)
BSc Econ., University of Wales, Swansea (Leslie Drew Prize for highest standard achieved in final BSc Econ.)

PUBLICATIONS
Books
(2023) Human Rights, Security Politics and Embodiment. London: Anthem
(2019) The New Power Elite: Inequality, Politics and Greed. London: Anthem
(2017) Human Rights, Islam and the Failure of Cosmopolitanism London: Routledge
(2002) Generations, Culture & Society, Open University Press
(2002) Generational Consciousness, Narrative and Politics, Rowman & Littlefield
(2000) The Left and Israel: Party Policy Change and Internal Democracy, Macmillan and
St. Martin’s Press
Articles
(2023) France's Ban on the Abaya: The Perfect Distraction? https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2023/10/02/frances-ban-on-the-abaya-the-perfect-distraction/
(2020/1) 'Precarious Bodies: The securitization of the "veiled" woman in European Human Rights', British Journal of Sociology https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12806
(2018) ‘The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy’. Book Review Symposium, Sociology, 1-2: 128
(2017) ‘Migration’ in Outhwaite, W. and Turner, P. The Sage Handbook of Political Sociology. London: Sage
(2013) ‘Human Rights, Islam and the Failure of Cosmopolitanism’, Ethnicities, 13 (6): 671- 88
(2012) ‘The Limits of Post-National Citizenship: European Muslims, Human Rights and the Hijab’, Ethnic & Racial Studies, 35 (7): 1181-99
(2011) ‘The “New Barbarians”: Governmentality, Securitization and Islam’, Contemporary Islam, 6 (1): 67-84
(2011) [Reprint article] Translation of ‘Global Generations: Social Change in the Twentieth Century’ for Sosyoloji Dergisi (Journal of Sociology). Ege University, Department of Sociology, Turkey (major role)
(2010) ‘”Elite” Young Muslims in the UK: From Transnational to Global Politics’. Contemporary Islam, 5 (2): 215-3
(2009) ‘Generation Obama’, Kulturaustausch (the Journal for International Perspectives; invited contribution from the Institute for Foreign Affairs, Berlin)
(2006) 'Migration Studies: New Directions?'. Ethnicities. 6 (4): 555-64
(2005) 'Global Generations: Social Change in the Twentieth Century' British Journal of Sociology, Vol. 56, No. 4: 559-78
(2002) 'The Distaste of Taste:Bourdieu, Cultural Capital and Generational Lifestyle in the Australian Postwar Elite'. Journal of Consumer Culture. 2 (2): 219-40.
(2001) ‘The Re-Invention of a National Identity: Women and ‘Cosmopolitan’ Englishness', Ethnicities. 1 (1): 112-37
(2001) ‘The Reprofessionalisation of Community Pharmacy? An Exploration of Attitudes to Extended Roles for Community Pharmacists amongst Pharmacists and GPs in the UK’, Social Science and Medicine. 53 (7): 113-23.
(2000) ‘The Evolution of British Labour Party Policy on Israel in the Post-War Period’ Twentieth Century British History, 11 (1): 23-41
(1998) ‘The British Labour Party in the 1980s: The Battle Over The Palestinian/Israeli Conflict’, Politics 18 (2): 111-118

Book Chapters
(2005) [Reprint] ‘The Distaste of Taste: Bourdieu, Cultural Capital and the Australian Postwar Elite’ in Margaret Hogg, ed., Consumer Behaviour. London: Sage Publications

(2004) Generationen und soziale SchlieBung. Die britische Nachkriegsgeneration in Mackert, J. (eds) Die Theorie soziaer SchlieBung. VS Verag fur Soziawissenschaften, Wiesbaden

(2004). 'Redefining Britannia: The role of "marginal" generations in reshaping British national consciousness' in Phillips, R. and Brocklehurst, H. eds., History, Nationhood and the Question of Britain. Macmillan/Palgrave
(2004). 'Generations and Social Closure' in Mackert, J. ed., The Theory of Social Closure. Berlin: Leske and Budrich
(2002). ‘Generations, Women and National Consciousness’ in Edmunds, J. and Turner, B.
S. eds., Generational Consciousness, Narrative and Politics. London, Oxford, New York: Rowman & Littlefield: 31-50
Book reviews

(2024) 'The Rage of Replacement: Far Right Politics and Demographic Fear', M. Feola, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, Ethnic & Racial Studies, August
(2020) 'The colonialism of human rights: Ongoing hypocrises of western liberalism', C. Samson, Cambridge and Medford, MA.: Polity Press, Ethnic & Racial Studies, November
(2020) ‘Behind the Veil: A Critical Analysis of European Veiling Laws. Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
(2019) ‘The Politics of the Headscarf in the United States’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, April.
(2014). Korgeweg, Anna C. and Yurkadul, Gökçe (2014). ‘The Headscarf Debates: Conflicts of National Belonging’. Stanford, CA.: Stanford University Press. Ethnic and Racial Studies
(2012) Catarina Kinnvall and Paul Nesbitt-Larking, The Political Psychology of Globalization: Muslims in the West, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011, ix 227 pp., £27.50 (hard). Ethnic and Racial Studies, 1-2 [iFirst]
(2011) Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul’s School, Shamus Rahman Khan, Princeton University Press. The Sociological Review, 59 (4): 858-60
(2004). Azza Karam (ed), Transnational Political Islam, Religion, Ideology and Power, London and Sterling: Virginia. Ethnic and Racial Studies
(1998). Book Review: Hawes, D., Gypsies, Travellers and the Health Service, Bristol: the Polity Press, Journal of Social Policy 27 (3): 436
Presentations/Conferences

(2025) 'Militaristic Feminism: IDF Women, Gaza 2023-24', King's College London, Critical Intersections Symposium: Navigating Western and Non-Western Critical Traditions.
(2017) 'Veiled Women in the European Court of Human Rights'. Centre for Gender Studies Workshop, University of Sussex
(2012) ‘Have human rights failed Europe’s Muslims?’. Oxford University Centre for Islamic Studies, February (Invited speaker)
(2008) ‘Developments in the Sociology of Generations: The Emergence of Global Political Generations’ (Invited keynote speaker, Catholic University, Milan)
(2006) ‘Young British Muslims, Political Participation, Transnational Politics and Inter-Generational Resources’ (ASA conference, Montreal)
(2005) 'Generational Closure and Political Change in Post-revolutionary Eastern Europe' (ASA conference, Philadelphia)
(2003). 'Social Closure and Intergenerational Relations'. (European Sociological Association, Murcia, Spain).
(2002). 'Women, generations and National Identity'. British Island Stories: History, Identity and Nationhood (ESRC Devolution & Constitutional Change Programme), University of York, 17-19 April
(2001). 'Elite Women and English Nationalism' in Taking the Initiative: Women's Leadership on National Issues. Centre for Women Leaders,Lucy Cavendish College,University of Cambridge, Working Papers: 10-26
(2000). 'Elite Women and English Nationalism', Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge
(2000). 'Women, Nationalism and Generational Consciousness', Workshop on ‘Narratives, Generational Consciousness and Politics’, University of Cambridge
Media Contributions 
Quoted in (2018) Stephen Castles, New York Times: 'Anti-Semitism Accusations Taint Labour Party, Once Home to U.K.'s Jews', 29th March. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/29/world/europe/uk-jeremy-corbyn-mural.html
(2012). ‘Have human rights and public opinion failed Europe’s Muslims?’. YouGov-Cambridge, 7th March. https://yougov.co.uk/people/juneedmunds/
(2009). ‘Generation Obama’, Kulturaustausch (IFA, Berlin)
(2008). ‘Look elsewhere for the enemy within’, Guardian online, 3 December https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/dec/03/islam-religion2008). Contribution to Anglia News item on young Muslims and radicalisation, 11 December
(2005) 'In the grip of a hostile takeover: Killing Thinking', Times Higher Education. https://protect-eu.mimecast.com/s/UadAC8EBkcwRpGXf1vR1z?domain=timeshighereducation.com

Blog

(2023) France's ban on the abaya - the perfect distraction?, LSE EU Politics, 2nd October.

GRANTS

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH: Lead Researcher, Developments in Primary Care
ESRC RESEARCH GRANT: Principal Invesitgator, Generational Politics and Elite Young Muslims 

PhD Supervision
Ali Kassem (Veiling in Lebanon from a Decolonial Perspective) 
Hala Abdelgawad (Absent Women and the Judiciary in Post-Revolutionary Egypt)
Ven Fitchett (Escaping and Surviving GBV in Contemporary Nigeria)
Sara Al-Ansari (Qatari Women: Between Yesterday's Empowerment and Today's Challenges)
Deepa Shah (Social Work, Asylum and Street Level Securitisation)

Clara I. Giron Pacheco (Narrating Peace: A Critique of Women, Peace & Security)

Interests
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/lps/research/networks/ethnicity_race

Dr Edmunds has carried out voluntary work for the human rights organisation 'Liberty' (London) & she has links with the Cambridge Refugee Council (CRC).