Patricia Daley

Patricia Daley is a lecturer in Human Geography in the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford. Her latest book is Gender and Genocide: the Search for Spaces of Peace in Central Africa. Oxford: James Currey; Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press.

Website: http://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/staff/pdaley.html

Understanding contemporary violence in Central Africa: militarism, race, and gender

It is time to challenge the conventional explanations of gender based violence. Patricia Daley argues that it can only be understood in association with contemporary geo-economic forces and the Central African experience of modernity

By Patricia Daley

/ 20 Sep 2011

Recalling 1970s London: has life improved since for the young, poor and black?

A lecturer at Oxford University remembers her teenagehood as a native Jamaican in Hackney, one of London's poorest boroughs and one of the worst-hit by last week's riots. The reflection leads her to ask if she would have achieved success if she had grown up in the Britain of today

By Patricia Daley

/ 19 Aug 2011