Giraud, Eva Haifa, Dr

Dr Eva Haifa Giraud (she/her)

MA (hons), MA, PhD

Department of Sociological Studies

Senior Lecturer in Digital Media & Society

Deputy Director of Education

E.H.Giraud@sheffield.ac.uk

The Wave

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Dr Eva Haifa Giraud
Department of Sociological Studies
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
Sheffield
S10 2AH

Profile

Eva joined the Department of Sociological Studies in 2021. After completing her PhD in 2011 in the Сŷ��Ƶ of Nottingham’s Centre of Critical Theory, she worked in the Department of Culture, Film and Media at Nottingham for three years, before gaining her first permanent post in Keele Сŷ��Ƶ’s Media Department in 2014.

Eva’s research has two strands. In empirical terms, she is interested in the ways that activists negotiate frictions associated with the media platforms they use, particularly the challenges posed by social media. Eva also has a broad conceptual interest in some of the potentials and tensions associated with non-anthropocentric theoretical work. She has drawn these themes together in her books What Comes After Entanglement? (Duke Сŷ��Ƶ Press, 2019) and Veganism: Politics, Practice and Theory (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021). Eva is currently on the editorial team of the international journal Cultural Politics and associated book series 'a cultural politics book' (Duke Сŷ��Ƶ Press), and an associated editor of Environmental Humanities. Eva has an H-commons page .

Research interests

Eva is currently CO-I on two funded projects:

‘#ContestingIslamophobia: Representation and Appropriation in Mediated Activism’ (AHRC-funded), with Professor Elizabeth Poole (P-I) and Professor Ed de Quincey, which examines the circulation and contestation of online hate speech,

and

‘Storytelling for Environmental Change: Tackling Air Pollution in the World’s Most Polluted City’ (GCRF funded), with Dr Pawas Bisht (P-I) and Dr Sabina Kidwai, which explores the possibility of creating participatory forms of environmental storytelling.

Main research interests:

Alternative and activist media
Food politics
‘Lifestyle’ ethics
Online dis/misinformation and hate speech
Mediated activism (particularly animal, anti-racist, and environmental activism)
Science and technology studies (STS)
Social & cultural theory (especially related to cultural politics)

Publications

Books

Haifa Giraud E (2021) . Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
Giraud EH (2019) . Duke Сŷ��Ƶ Press.

Edited books

Turnbull J, Searle A, Anderson-Elliott H & Giraud EH (Eds.) (2024) . Manchester Сŷ��Ƶ Press.

Journal articles

Richardson J, Giraud E, Poole E & de Quincey E (2024) . Media, Culture and Society.
POOLE E, RİCHARDSON JE, GİRAUD EH & DE QUİNCEY E (2023) . Medya ve Din Araştırmaları Dergisi, 6(2), 14-22.
Giraud E (2023) . Journal of Cultural Economy.
Poole E, Giraud EH, Richardson JE & de Quincey E (2023) . Social Media + Society, 9(3).
Giraud EH (2022) . The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, 30(1), 18-39.
Hollin G & Giraud E (2022) . Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 40(1), 80-98.
Giraud EH (2021) . The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, 29(1), 153-175.
Poole E, Giraud EH & de Quincey E (2021) . New Media & Society, 23(6), 1415-1442.
Giraud EH (2021) . Cultural Politics, 17(1), 37-47.
Morris C, Kaljonen M, Aavik K, Balázs B, Cole M, Coles B, Efstathiu S, Fallon T, Foden M, Giraud EH , Goodman M et al (2021) . Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 8(1).
Giraud EH & Aghassi-Isfahani S-N (2020) . Cultural Politics, 16(1), 1-13.
Poole E & Giraud E (2019) . Open Library of Humanities, 5(1).
Giraud E, Hadley Kershaw E, Helliwell R & Hollin G (2019) . The Sociological Review, 67(2), 357-373.
Poole E, Giraud E & de Quincey E (2019) . Open Library of Humanities, 5(1).
Giraud E, Hollin G, Potts T & Forsyth I (2018) . Feminist Review, 118(1), 61-79.
Hollin G, Forsyth I, Giraud E & Potts T (2017) . Social Studies of Science, 47(6), 918-941.
Hollin G & Giraud E (2017) . Social Theory & Health, 15(2), 223-240.
Giraud E & Hollin G (2016) . Theory, Culture & Society, 33(4), 27-49.
Giraud E (2015) . Subjectivity, 8(2), 124-146.
Giraud E (2015) The cultural politics of pervasive drama : aural narrative, digital media and re-compositions of urban space. Journal of Sonic Studies(9).
Giraud E (2015) Feminist praxis, critical theory and informal hierarchies. Journal of Feminist Scholarship(7/8), 43-60.
Giraud E (2014) . Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 20(4), 419-437.
Giraud E (2013) . PhaenEx, 8(2), 47-47.
Giraud E (2013) . Culture, Theory and Critique, 54(1), 102-120.
Giraud E (2011) Mclibel to Mcspotlight: The impact of information and communication technologies upon radical pampheteering. E-Sharp(12).
Giraud EH, Poole E, de Quincey E & Richardson JE () . The Sociological Review.
Giraud E, Poole E, de Quincey E & Richardson J () Learning from online hate speech and digital racism: From automated to diffractive methods in social media analysis.. Sociological Review.
Giraud E () Reassembling the Banal; Pausing Before Inventing Anew. Dialogues in Sociology.
Drummond M, Oliver C, Palmer J & Giraud EH () Unfamiliar archives: a roundtable on estrangement, secrets, and loss. Cultural Politics.
Giraud EH & Wright T () Digital archives as resisting displacement. Cultural Politics.

Chapters

Searle A, Giraud EH, Turnbull J & Anderson-Elliott H (2024) Introduction: What is digital ecologies?, Digital Ecologies: Mediating More-Than-Human Worlds (pp. 1-28).
Giraud EH (2024) Afterword: Finding the media in digital ecologies, Digital Ecologies: Mediating More-Than-Human Worlds (pp. 256-265).
Giraud E (2024) Looking Back, to Learn From, Activist Histories: Reflecting on the Relationship between Critical Animal Studies and Critical Pedagogy In Carreras MR, Leth-Espensen M, Lindström L, Linné T, Song Lopez G & Yndal-Olsen N (Ed.), Reimagining Species Relations: A Decade of Studying and Teaching Critical Animal Studies at Lund Сŷ��Ƶ (pp. 57-72). Lund Сŷ��Ƶ
Giraud EH (2024) In Parkinson C & Herring L (Ed.), Animal Activism on and Off Screen Sydney: Sydney Сŷ��Ƶ Press.
Giraud EH & White R (2022) , Feminist Animal Studies (pp. 64-81). Routledge
Giraud E (2021) , The Routledge Handbook of Vegan Studies (pp. 50-61). Routledge
Giraud E & Poole E (2021) , The Routledge Companion to Media Disinformation and Populism (pp. 519-528). Routledge
Giraud E (2017) , Digital Food Activism (pp. 130-150). Routledge
Giraud E & Hollin G (2016) , Participatory Research in More-than-Human Worlds (pp. 163-177).
Giraud E (2015) Practice as theory: learning from food activism and performative protest In Gillespie K & Collard R-C (Ed.), Critical Animal Geographies Politics, Intersections and Hierarchies in a Multispecies World (pp. 36-53). Routledge

Book reviews

Giraud EH (2023) . New Formations, 107(107), 241-244.
Giraud E (2022) . Society & Animals.
Giraud EH (2020) . Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 82, 101267-101267.
Giraud E (2020) . Communications, 45(2), 264-266.
Giraud E (2019) . BioSocieties, 14(3), 472-481.
Giraud E (2017) . European Journal of Communication, 32(1), 71-74.
Giraud E & Hollin G (2016) Thom van Dooren’s Flight Ways. Somatosphere.
Giraud E & Hollin G (2016) Book review : Thom van Dooren’s Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the End of Extinction. Somatosphere.
Giraud E & Hollin G (2016) Jamie Lorimer’s Wildlife in the Anthropocene’. Theory, Culture & Society. Theory, Culture and Society.
Hollin G & Giraud E (2016) Review: Jamie Lorimer, ‘Wildlife in the Anthropocene’. Theory, Culture and Society.
Giraud E (2015) Cynthia Willett’s Interspecies Ethics. Somatosphere.
Giraud E (2014) Choose Zoe: Rosi Braidotti’s the Posthuman. Radical Philosophy(184).

Other

Giraud E (2018) .

Teaching interests: Eva is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and has longstanding commitments to critical pedagogies, which aim to empower students through experiential, dialogical approaches to learning. She has published about strategies for teaching media and social theory, and was awarded a university-wide teaching excellence award for pedagogical work at her previous institution. Eva has particular interest in finding ways to make difficult theory accessible to students, as she struggled with understanding certain concepts and debates when she began her studies – and still remembers the moment when things ‘clicked’ for her, so always hopes she can do the same for her students.

Teaching activities

Eva currently teaches on the following modules:

SCS2024 Digital Media and Social Change
SCS6109 Global Challenges in Digital Society

PhD supervision

Eva’s PhD supervision has been relatively wide-ranging and includes projects focused on: patient activism in an era of disinformation, postfeminist identity in popular film and television, empowerment discourses in hijab fashion Instagram communities, media reporting of global happiness indexes, safe spaces and everyday utopia, gender politics and hierarchy in on/offline cosplay communities, and the cultural politics of drone warfare.

Eva is particularly interested in supporting future projects on topics such as: food activism, environmental politics, animal activism and activist media ecologies, or any of her other research interests listed above. She is also happy to support projects that engage with social and cultural theory more widely (especially related to feminist STS and cultural politics)