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Shannon Philip

Shannon is a queer-feminist sociologist of colour. His research focuses on the relationship between masculinities, femininities and sexualities in cities of the Global South. He has carried out long-term ethnographic and qualitative fieldwork in New Delhi and Johannesburg exploring questions of men's violence towards women and queer people, embodied performances of class, gender and sexuality, as well as the transforming articulations of heteropatriarchal and heteronormative power. Shannon's research is intersectional, focusing on the ways in which race, class, caste, sexuality and gender operate in everyday social processes and their many consequences.

Research Interests

Sociology of Gender and Sexuality, Youth Sociology, Urban Sociology, Decolonial and Postcolonial Sociology, Comparative Sociology

Teaching

SOC1: Introduction to Sociology

SOC2: Social Theory

SOC7: Media, Culture and Society

SOC10: Sociology of Gender (Course Organiser)

SOC11: Empire, Colonialism, Imperialism

Publications

Books

Becoming Young Men in a New India: Masculinities, Gender Relations and Violence in the Postcolony (Cambridge University Press, 2022)

 

Book Chapters

Philip, S. 2024. "Sex, sexuality and the ethnographer in the field" in Procter and Spector eds. 2024 Inclusive Ethnography, Making Fieldwork Safer, Healthier and More Ethical, SAGE

Philip, S. 2023. "Is there a Post-Patriarchal Indian Man?" in Van der Gaag, N., Massoumian, A. and Nightingale, D. eds., 2023. Patriarchy in Practice: Ethnographies of Everyday Masculinities, Bloomsbury Publishing.

 

Journal Articles

Philip, S. 2025. Macho Vulnerability: race, class and caste inequalities in men’s urban mobilities in India and South Africa. Third World Quarterly, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2025.2568169

Philip, S. 2023. "Global South Perspectives on Youth – A Commentary, Journal of Boyhood Studies", Berghahn Journals

Philip, S. 2018. "Youth and ICTs in a ‘New’ India: Exploring changing gendered relationships among young urban men and women", Journal of Gender and Development

Philip, S. 2017. “Caught in-between: Social developments and young men in urban India”, Journal of Gender Studies, Special issue on Generational Masculinities

Philip, S. 2015. "Making men and masculinities visible: a macro level enquiry into conceptualisations of gender and violence in Indian policies", NORMA, vol. 10, no. 3-4, pp. 326-338

Grants and Projects

Dating Apps and Transforming Intimacies - British Academy

Job Title:
Assistant Professor in the Sociology of Gender and Sexuality
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Study at Cambridge

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Research at Cambridge