Biography

Pamela is a lecturer in Anthropology. She has a BA in French and Development Studies from Smith College, an M.Sc. in Social Anthropology from UCL and a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London (2001). After completing her doctorate, she worked as a research officer at The Gender Institute, London School of Economics and an associate tutor at The Open University, arriving at Sussex in 2003.  She was an ESRC postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Anthropology from 2004 to 2005.

Role

Lecturer in Social Anthropology

Research

Pamela Kea's doctoral research focused on gender, the social relations of agrarian production and migrant farm labour within a changing Gambian political economy.  Her research has been written up as a monograph entitled: Land, Labour and Entrustment: West African Female Farmers and the Politics of Difference (Brill 2010).  Pamela's current research interests fall into three main areas: gender, labour, the social relations of agrarian production and West African political and moral economy; children, transnational migration, the anthropology of affect, the social imaginary and the reconfiguration of the domestic; and West African female asylum seekers, the politics of asylum, and the aesthetics of recognition.  She has recently carried out British Academy funded research on West African female asylum seekers' experiences of claiming asylum in the United Kingdom.  She is currently working on a Rockefeller funded project entitled: 'Reconfiguring Transnational Education and Care: West African Migrants in the U.K.'

Current DPhil Students

Mamdouh Fadil - Youth and Education in Egypt

Andrew Lipinski - Migration and the Politics of food in Dakar 

Maureen Baziwe - Gender and land rights in Uganda

Veronika Talviste - Internally displaced female adolescents in Columbia

Recent DPhil Students

Katrin Maier - Nigerian Pentacostals in London

Prosper Asima - Ghanaian migrants in the UK (Awarded 2011)

AUTUMN TERM

Key Issues in Gender and Development (MA Gender and Development)

Gender Analysis and Theoretical Perspectives (MA Gender and Development)

SPRING AND SUMMER TERMS

Gender Across Cultures (UG, 1st Year)

Gender and Development (UG, 2nd Year)

Anthropology of Relatedness and Kinship (UG, 1st Year)

Race, Ethnicity and Identity (UG, 3rd Year)

Issues in Development(UG, 1st Year)

Doing Gender and Development (MA Gender and Development)

Kea, Pamela (2013) Producing Victim Identities: Female Genital Cutting and the Politics of Asylum Claims in the United Kingdom. Identities, 20 (1). pp. 96-113. ISSN 1070-289X (Print), 1547-3384 (Online)

Kea, Pamela (2013) 'The complexity of an enduring relationship': gender, generation and the moral economy of the Gambian Mandinka household. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 19 (1). pp. 102-119. ISSN 1467-9655

Kea, Pamela (2013) 'The complexity of an enduring relationship': Gender, Generation and the Moral Economy of the Gambian Household. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 19 (1). pp. 102-119. ISSN 1359-0987

Kea, Pamela (2012) Becoming Local Citizens: Senegalese Female Migrants and Agrarian Clientelism in The Gambia. African Studies Quarterly, 13 (3). pp. 1-21. ISSN 2152-2448

Kea, Pamela (2012) Becoming local citizens: Senegalese migrants and agrarian clientelism in The Gambia. African Studies Quarterly, 13 (3). pp. 1-21. ISSN 2152-2448