Gregor McLennan

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Gregor McLennan
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McLennan in 1991
Born (1952-10-21) 21 October 1952 (age 72)
Education University of Birmingham (PhD), Bristol University (BA)
Known forworks on postcolonial and postsecular social theory
Scientific career
Fields social theory, ideology and politics, philosophy of social sciences
Institutions Massey University
Bristol University
Doctoral students Seyed Javad Miri

Gregor McLennan (born 21 October 1952) is a British sociologist and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He studied under Stuart Hall at the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies in the 1970s and continued to work with Hall at the Open University during the 1980s, co-editing several key texts on politics, ideology and crime. [1] From 1991 to 1997 he was Head of the Department of Sociology at Massey University. In 1997 he assumed the Established Chair in Sociology at the University of Bristol, where he was also Director of the Institute of Advanced Studies. He is currently professor emeritus.

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McLennan is known for his works on postcolonialism and postsecularism. [2] [3] He is also a Trustee of the Stuart Hall Foundation and edited Hall's Selected Writings on Marxism for Duke University Press in 2021.

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  1. "Professor Gregor McLennan - Our People". www.bristol.ac.uk. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  2. McLennan, Gregor (September 2013). "GREGOR McLENNAN INTERVIEW – 24 MAY 2011". Cultural Studies . 27 (5): 815–827. doi:10.1080/09502386.2013.773676. ISSN   0950-2386. S2CID   143906348.
  3. Mouzelis, Nicos (1996). "AFTER POSTMODERNISM: A REPLY TO GREGOR McLENNAN". Sociology. 30 (1): 131–135. doi:10.1177/0038038596030001009. JSTOR   42857841. S2CID   144379431.