Joseph has been awarded a Marie-Curie individual fellowship to conduct a research project on social media by Muslim organisations and individuals to de-securitise Muslims in the UK and France, based at the Laboratory of Mediterranean Sociology, CNRS and the Université Aix-Marseille. He has published widely on politics and sociology in France, concentrating on minority communities. He has also been widely consulted by broadcast and print media.
Joseph Downing received his PhD from the European Institute, London School of Economics in 2014. His thesis ‘Between Policy, Recognition and Rioting: Analyzing the role of urban governance, historical commemoration and public culture in defining inclusion in Marseille, Paris and Lyon’ involved significant fieldwork in France. He was awarded the AHRC block grant “European Languages and Culture” full scholarship for the 2009-2012 period and taught as a fellow at LSE until 2016.
Experience
2016–present
Marie Curie Fellow, CNRS, Aix-Marseille University
2013–present
Associate, European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science
Education
2014
LSE, PhD European Studies
2005
SOAS, MSc Middle East Politics
2004
SOAS, Certificate in Political Studies
2003
Kings College London, BSc Environmental Sciences
Publications
2016
International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Fighting cultural marginalisation with symbolic power in a Parisian banlieue: post-colonial culture and the voluntary association les Oranges
2016
Ethnicities, June 2016 vol. 16 no. 3 452-469, Influences on state–society relations in France: Analysing voluntary associations and multicultural dynamism, co-option and retrenchment in Paris, Lyon and Marseille
2015
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism 15 (2), 336-351, Understanding the (Re)Definition of Nationhood in French Cities: A Case of Multiple States and Multiple Republics
2015
Fennia - International Journal of Geography 193 (2), 185-197, Contesting and re-negotiating the national in French cities: examining policies of governance, Europeanisation and co-option in Marseille and Lyon
2015
Ethnic and Racial Studies 36 (9), 1557-1572 , European influence on diversity policy frames: paradoxical outcomes of Lyon's membership of the Intercultural Cities programme