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Dr Margarita Aragon

Positions held:
  • Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences
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  • Overview

    Overview

    Biography

    Margarita is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the Department of Psychosocial Studies. She completed her PhD in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London in 2013.聽Before undertaking doctoral study, she聽worked in community-based racial justice organizations in the U.S. for a number of years,聽and has also worked聽in聽youth work organizations in the U.K.

    Her research interests lie in the sociological theorising of racism and its imbrications with gender and disability.聽Her work examines聽the scientific and popular discourses through which racial knowledge has been produced and circulated, as well as the legal and extra-legal violence through which racialized boundaries have been enforced.

    She has previously taught at Goldsmiths, as well as the University of East London.


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  • Research

    Research

    Research interests

    • Racism and 'race'
    • Gender and masculinities
    • Disability
    • Criminal justice and histories of incarceration
    • Histories of racist violence and resistance

    Research overview

    Focusing primarily on the 19th and 20th centuries,聽 Margarita's research聽investigates聽how colonialism and transatlantic slavery have shaped the multi-ethnic, multiply racialized landscapes of the Americas and the UK. Her current project seeks to understand the historical relationship of disability and racism, particularly in the context of the incarceration of people deemed to be intellectually disabled in the early 20th century. Though historic in perspective,聽her research seeks to contribute to ongoing public debates around issues of inequality and criminal and social justice.

    Research Centres and Institutes

    • Department Representative,
  • Supervision and teaching

    Supervision and teaching

    Supervision

    Supervisions external to 糖心logo入口:
    1
    Supervisions within 糖心logo入口:
    8

    I welcome enquiries from prospective PhD students who are interested in聽any of my research areas: historical聽or contemporary construction of intersectional inequalities, including racism, gender and disability; criminal justice and practices of incarceration; histories of violence and resistance.

    Current doctoral researchers

    • BEX SHORUNKE
      Nature of supervision:
      JOINT PRINCIPAL SUPERVISOR,
      Title of thesis:
      Black and Blue: How Black women officers and staff experience the racialised and gendered dynamics of British police services and develop strategies to cope
    • EDUARDO DE MATOS VEGA CLARKE
      Nature of supervision:
      JOINT PRINCIPAL SUPERVISOR,
      Title of thesis:
      Who Should Survive? An Ethnography of Brazilian Necropolitics during Covid-19 and in Its Aftermath.
    • MARIA LUISA NDONG ASUE
      Nature of supervision:
      JOINT PRINCIPAL SUPERVISOR,
      Title of thesis:
      Producing silence, living erasure: The externalised pact of oblivion in Spanish (post)colonial memory of Equatorial Guinea
    • MAT THOMPSON
      Nature of supervision:
      PRINCIPAL SUPERVISOR,
    • JADA BROWN
      Nature of supervision:
      JOINT PRINCIPAL SUPERVISOR,
      Title of thesis:
      Exploring the intersectional, embodied lived experiences of Black, autistic students in UK higher education.
    • TEMI MWALE
      Nature of supervision:
      JOINT PRINCIPAL SUPERVISOR,
    • KATE HART
      Nature of supervision:
      JOINT PRINCIPAL SUPERVISOR,
    • LUCIA SARMIENTO
      Nature of supervision:
      JOINT PRINCIPAL SUPERVISOR,

    Teaching

    Teaching modules

    • Observation and the Everyday
    • Sociology for New Worlds
    • Investigating the Social World
    • Independent Research Module
  • Publications

    Publications

    Article

    • Aragon, Margarita (2025) . History of the Human Sciences 38 (2), pp. 40-55. ISSN 0952-6951.
    • Aragon, Margarita (2024) . Journal of American Studies ISSN 0021-8758.
    • Aragon, Margarita (2019) . Men and Masculinities 22 (2), pp. 216-235. ISSN 1552-6828.
    • Aragon, Margarita (2017) . Immigrants and Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora 35 (1), pp. 59-77. ISSN 0261-9288.
    • Aragon, Margarita (2015) . Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 1 (4), pp. 503-516. ISSN 2332-6492.
    • Aragon, Margarita (2014) . Subjectivity 7 (1), pp. 18-36. ISSN 1755-6341.

    Book

    • Aragon, Margarita (2021) . Racism, Resistance and Social Change. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press. ISBN 9781526121677.

    Book section

    • Aragon, Margarita and Campbell-Franks, A. (2024) . In: Coleman, R. and Jungnickel, K. and Puwar, N. (eds.) How to do social research with.... Goldsmiths Press / Methods Lab. ISBN 9781913380427.
    • Aragon, Margarita (2023) . In: Aiello, T. (ed.) The Routledge History of Police Brutality in America. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. pp. 97-107. ISBN 9780367626105.
    • Aragon, Margarita (2023) . In: Bhatia, Monish and Poynting, S. and Tufail, W. (eds.) Racism, Violence and Harm: Ideology, media and resistance. Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 205-224. ISBN 9783031378782.