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Robin West

Dr Robin West is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the School of Social Sciences and Professions.

Robin West

Robin taught social theory and criminology at the University of Essex before joining London Met in 2018. He has also taught environmental politics and policy at the Open University.

Qualifications
Robin has a PhD in Sociology, MA in Sociological Research, and BA (Hons) in Philosophy and Sociology from the University of Essex.
Robin teaches mainly in the area of sociological theory at undergraduate level. He also leads postgraduate modules on social vulnerabilities and safeguarding policy.
 
Current PhD supervision
Nina Antonisen: 'The American Precariat' (co-supervised with Prof. Svetlana Stephenson)
Chijioke Uwazie: 'An Empirical Study of Security Concern in the United Kingdom: Refugees' Perceptions'
Victoria Runyararo Madzure: 'Commissioning call: Are environmental resource crises induced by climate change disrupting traditional gender roles in Zimbabwe?' (co-supervised with Prof. Anne Karpf)
Mariela Alvarez Martinez: 'A study of Prescription Only Medications’ online encrypted markets' (co-supervised with Dr. Gordana Uzelac)

Robin is a member of the Global Diversities and Inequalities Research Centre at London Met. His current research addresses the affective processes and performance of collective memory related to historic state violence, post-authoritarian reparation, dark tourism, and the afterlife of victimisation in South Korea. Other recent research has explored the precarious interactions between an Italian mining community and corporate interests.

Publications:

West, R. & Crowhurst, I. (2023) ‘Zinc’s Time in the Sun?: Tracing the Reopening of the Riso and Parina Valleys’ Mines from Precarious Optimism to Affective Indeterminacy’ in N. Behzadi, N. Doering, & S. Postar, [eds] ‘Extraction/Exclusion’: Beyond Binaries of Exclusion and Inclusion in Natural Resource Extraction, Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.
 
West, R. (2023) 'The Memorialization of Jeju 4:3, South Korea’ in A. Lynes, C. Kelly & J Treadwell [eds] 50 Dark Destinations: A criminological analysis of contemporary tourism, Bristol: Policy Press.
 
McGoey, L.,Thiel, D. & West, R. (2018) ‘Le philanthrocapitalisme et les «crimes des dominants»’ [‘Philanthrocapitalism and crimes of the powerful’] Politix 31(121): 29-54.
 
West, R. (2017) ‘A Strange but Familiar Foe: North Korea’s Media Image and Public Imagination’ Asian Perspective 41(4): 593-618.
 
West, R. & Denman, A. (2018) ‘Skin, body, gender and colourism: Reflections on the invention of the not quite black race’ in I. Boncori [ed] Race, Ethnicity and Inclusion, Naples: Editoriale Scientifica.
 
Denman, A. & West, R. (2018) ‘Colourism today: Media, skin tone and the beauty ideal’ in I. Boncori [ed] Race, Ethnicity and Inclusion, Naples: Editoriale Scientifica.
 
West, R. (2017) ‘Classical Criminology’ in B.S. Turner, K.S. Chang, C. Epstein, P. Kivisto, W. Outhwaite & M. Ryan [eds] The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Social Theory, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
 
West, R. (2017) ‘Enlightenment (including Scottish)’ in B.S. Turner, K.S. Chang, C. Epstein, P. Kivisto, W. Outhwaite & M. Ryan [eds] The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Social Theory, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell

Recent conference papers:

'To Whom does Memorialisation/Memory Speak?: Image, Empathy and the Uncanny in Cases of Historical Violence’ presented at the 2023 Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Florence, Italy.
 
‘Refractions of Atrocity: Reading Real and Figurative Traumascapes through the Criminological Imagination’ presented at the 2022 Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Malaga, Spain.

BA/ Leverhulme Small Research Grant (SRG21\211144) 'Jeju 4.3: Dark Tourism and the Refractions of Atrocity'

Member: European Society of Criminology
Member: British Sociological Association

Dr Robin West
Senior Lecturer in Sociology
E: r.west@londonmet.ac.uk