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Dr Christina Woolner

Research Assistant

Department: Humanities

  
Christina Woolner

Key Publications

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • 'Giving voice' in Somaliland: A Conversation about Poetic Voice and Authority with Xasan Daahir Ismaaciil 'Weedhsame', Woolner, C. 2024
  • Poetry's Political Future(s): Deliberating Democracy and Justice in Somaliland, Woolner, C. 19 Jun 2024, In: Nordic Journal of African Studies
  • Love Songs in Motion: Voicing Intimacy in Somaliland, Woolner, C. Nov 2023
  • Listening to Love: Aural Attention, Vocal Iconicity and Intimacy in Somaliland, Woolner, C. 5 May 2022, In: American Ethnologist
  • “Out of Time” and “Out of Tune”: Reflections of an Oud Apprentice in Somaliland, Woolner, C. 1 Jul 2021, In: Ethnomusicology
  • Hees [Somali Popular Song], Woolner, C. 2019, The Bloomsbury Encyclopaedia of Popular Music of the World, Bloomsbury
  • Singing Love in(to) Somaliland: Love Songs, 'Heritage Preservation' and the Shaping of Post-War Publics, Woolner, C. 2018, Music and Dance Research in Eastern Africa, Twaweza Communications and IFRA
  • Education and extraversion: naming, valuing and contesting ‘modern’ and ‘indigenous’ knowledge in post-war Somaliland., Woolner, C. 2 Jul 2016, In: Journal of Eastern African Studies
  • Hiddo Dhawr: Singing Love in(to) Somaliland, Woolner, C. 2016
  • Women, religion and peace, Woolner, C., Sharify-Funk, M. 2012, Ashgate Research Companion on Religion and Conflict Resolution, Routledge

Qualifications

  • Social Anthropology PhD May 18 2019
  • Social Anthropology MPhil
  • MA
  • BA (Hons)

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