Dr Paul Kelemen

After completing my BA (Econ) degree I researched my Ph.D. on Marxism and Structuralism and during this period spent a year at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, in Paris.  I briefly taught at the University of Dar es Salaam. and for a number of years  was closely involved in solidarity campaigns and development work in relation to the Horn of Africa.  My main interest is in the historical changes that have characterised relations between the developed and developing world.

I am a governor at a secondary school in one of the more deprived areas of Sheffield and on the board of trustees of the Ahamad Iqbal Race Relations Resource Centre.

The history of the British labour movement’s approach to the colonies  and how this impacted on metropolitan thinking and policies.   I have carried out research on the British Labour party’s attitude towards the Middle East and in particular to the Palestinian conflict, to decolonization in Africa and, more recently,  to India, in the period leading up to its independence.

I am currently researching the activities, in Britain, of campaigners  for Indian independence  in the 1930s and 1940s. and in particular their impact on British
Labour organisations.

I teach on the theme of collective memory and particularly around issues connected with globalisation and forms of resistance to it in the former colonial world.

A History/Sociology course for first year undergraduates and for second and third year students,  ‘Globalisation and the Third World’  and ‘Empire, Images of “Race” and British Society’.

Publications Database

• ‘Economic Separatism and Britain’s Labour Policy in Palestine’ Historical Studies in Industrial Relations, no.22, November 2006, pp.1-25
• ‘Planning for Africa: the British Labour party and Africa’ Journal of Agrarian Change, 7(1) 2007, pp.

‘The Economics of Decolonization: the debate over Kenya in the British Labour Party’  Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History , Dec. 2007.

PhD students

• Tara Martin
• Carina Galustian
• Ebru Soytemel