Key details
Dr Adam Elliott-Cooper
Research Fellow in Sociology
Adam Elliott-Cooper received his PhD from the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, in 2016. He has previously worked as a researcher in the Department of Philosophy at UCL, as a teaching fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick and as a research associate in the Department of Geography at King's College London.
He sits on the board of The Monitoring Group, an anti-racist organisation challenging state racisms and racial violence.
Responsibilities within the university
Research and publishing: In the Shadow of a Movement: Black Resistance to Policing in 21st Century Britain (under contract with Manchester University Press)
Recognition
Adam sits on the editorial board of The Sociological Review and City.
Research / Scholarly interests
Adam's scholarly interests include postcolonialism, urban theory and social movements. His current research focuses on anti-racism and British policing, both on the British mainland and in Britain's colonies.
Adam is currently running a short course on Racism, Anti-Racism and Policing in Britain and is a member of the Centre for Applied Sociology Research.
Media activity
Recent podcasts
Defunding the Police, Distraction Pieces Podcast
Profiling, Safety and Trust, Moral Maze BBC Radio 4
Stop and search is discriminatory, so why is it on the rise?, Guardian Podcast
Has Britain got a problem with guns? Sky News Daily Podcast
Policing, Politics and Drill Music, Surviving Society Podcast
The Police and State Power, Novara Media
Decolonisation and anti-racist solidarity within and beyond the University, Sociological Review Podcast
Understanding the Crisis Part 2: Whose Life Matters? The World Transformed
Media
Sky News Debate: Police Stop and Search - Does it reduce gun and knife crime?
Sky News, May 19, 2017
Adam Elliott-Cooper and Luke Gittos discuss policing, serious youth violence and austerity in London
Sky News Debate: The British Commonwealth
Sky News, April 24, 2018
Dr Adam Elliott Cooper and Leon Ward - Co-chair of Commonwealth Youth Forum debate the relevance of the British Commonwealth today.
Remembering Darcus Howe
Black Cultural Archives, April 20, 2017
Adam Elliott-Cooper über Überwachung, Rassismus & Black Lives Matter
Channel 4 News: Black Lives Matter UK
Channel 4 News, October 27, 2016
A discussion on Channel 4 News in August 2016 about Black Lives Matter UK, and a solidarity action they organised challenging the treatment of migrants.
Adam Elliott-Cooper on Trevor Phillips
BBC News, March 16, 2016
Toby Young and Adam Elliott-Cooper Debate Rhodes Must Fall Oxford
Channel 4 News, February 2, 2016
Recent publications
Elliott, Cooper, A, Hubbard, P & Lees, L (2019). Moving beyond Marcuse: gentrification, displacement and the violence of un-homing. Progress In Human Geography
Elliott-Cooper, A (2019). 'Our Life is a Struggle': Gender, Respectability and Black Resistance. Antipode 51(2):
Elliott-Cooper, A (2017). The struggle that cannot be named: violence, space and the re-articulation of anti-racism in post-Duggan Britain. Ethnic and Racial Studies 41(14): 2445–2463
Elliott-Cooper, A (2017). Free, Decolonised Education: A Lesson from the South African Student Struggle. AREA 49(3): 332–334
Presentations
Shockingly Familiar: Crisis, Reform, and Nationalism in 2016
Verso Books
The Dog-Whistle Racism of the Neoliberal State
ROAR
A Struggle Without Borders
Jacobin
When did we come to Britain? You must be mistaken, Britain came to us
Verso Books
Doreen Lawrence, police spies and institutional racism
Open Democracy, January 14, 2014
Equality discussion panel
Leeds Beckett University, May 13, 2017