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Professor Hastings Donnan

BA (QUB), DPhil  (Sussex),  MRIA, AcSS

Professor of Social Anthropology

Phone : + 44 (0) 28 9097 3878  
E-mail: h.donnan@qub.ac.uk

Office: 14UQ.101

Hastings Donnan was born and brought up in Northern Ireland and after studying for his DPhil at the University of Sussex returned to Belfast to teach in the Anthropology Department at Queen’s University.  He has also taught in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Rome, where he was a visiting Professor.  He is Co-Director of the Centre for International Borders Research at Queen’s and Associate Editor of Anthropological Theory.  He is the author, editor or co-editor of over fifteen books.

 

 

Research Interests

Hastings Donnan has carried out field research in the Pakistan Himalayas where a series of projects focused on migration, on marriage, and on pilgrimage to the shrines of local Sufi saints and to Mecca.  He has also conducted research in Ireland on issues of identity and conflict along the border, and on the involvement of migrant professionals in local sport.  He is currently working on an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded project on drivers, pedestrians and risk in Belfast.

 

Select Publications

[with F. Magowan] The Anthropology of Sex (Oxford: Berg, 2010) [link]

(Co-Ed.) Borderlands: Ethnographic Approaches to Security, Power and Identity (Lanham MD: University Press of America, 2010)

'Cold war along the emerald curtain: Rural boundaries in a contested border zone', Social Anthropology, 18:3 (2010)

(Co-Ed.) Transgressive Sex: Subversion and Control in Erotic Encounters (Oxford: Berghahn, 2009) [link]

The Anthropology of Ireland (Oxford: Berg, 2006, with Thomas M. Wilson)

‘Material identities: Fixing ethnicity in the Irish borderlands’, in Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 12 (1): 69-105 (2005)

(Ed.) Culture and Power at the Edges of the State: National Support and Subversion in European Borderlands (Münster: Lit Verlag, 2005, with Thomas M. Wilson).

(Ed.) Interpreting Islam  (London: Sage, 2002).

Borders: Frontiers of Identity, Nation and State  (Oxford: Berg, 1999, 2001, with Thomas M. Wilson).

 

Relevant Website Addresses

Centre for International Borders Research www.qub.ac.uk/cibr/