Taking up and following the figure of the fly as it appears in an essay by Jorge Luis Borges and the poems of Aracelis Girmay, Gunaratnam describes experiments with empirical performance developed from qualitative research.
Yasmin Gunaratnam
Yasmin Gunaratnam is a Reader in Sociology at Goldsmiths. She has an interest in critical race, disability, migration and feminist scholarship and in qualitative and participatory methods. Her publications include Researching Race and Ethnicity: Methods, Knowledge and Power (2003, Sage), Death and the Migrant (2013, Bloomsbury Academic) and the co-authored book Go Home? The Politics of Immigration Controversies (2017, Manchester University Press). Yasmin has edited nine collections and writes poems. She is an editor of Feminist Review and the writers of colour, digital platform Media Diversified.
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