Jane Hindley

Faculty, Language and Thinking Program

Biography: Jane Hindley (B.Sc., University College, London; Ph.D., University of Essex) is a comparative, political sociologist with a strong commitment to interdisciplinary studies and creative pedagogies. She is a part-time lecturer in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities at the University of Essex, United Kingdom, where she is also a member of the Essex Sustainability Institute and the Human Rights Centre. She currently teaches B.A. courses on interdisciplinary research and dissertation-writing, The Enlightenment, and Dangerous Ideas: The Essay and Manifesto as Social Critique. Her past teaching has included courses on development, the environment, gender, ethnography and qualitative research methods.

Jane's research has focused on social movements, indigenous peoples, ethnic minorities, and the environment in Latin America, the United Kingdom, and Taiwan. She has held visiting fellowships at the Centro de Investigacion e Estudios Superiores in Mexico City; the United States-Mexico Centre at the University of California-San Diego; and more recently at the Institute of Gender Studies, Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan. Her current research project, Resources of Hope, documents grassroots environmental initiatives and considers their implications for cultural transformation, sustainable futures, and well-being. Jane has published a range of book chapters, journal articles, policy reports and review essays, including "The Humanist Challenge in Taiwan's Education: Liberation, Social Justice and Ecology"--with Ming-sho Ho, "A Park for the Twenty First Century: Observations on the Transformation of Mile End Park", Exploding Myths Exploring Realities: Uncovering the Health and Social Care Needs of Ethnic Minorities in Mid Essex, "Towards a Pluricultural Nation: The Limits of Indigenismo and the Reform of Article 4".
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