SEN Journal: Online Exclusives is delighted to present this interview with Professor Richard Jenkins, Professor of Sociology at the University of Sheffield. He was one of the keynote speakers at the 2012 ASEN Conference.
Vesselina Ratchev and Karen Seegobin interviewed Professor Jenkins at the 2012 ASEN Conference, held at the London School of Economics and Political Science on 27-29 March, 2012.
1. What are the main themes you’ve been working on this year?
When I was asked to give the keynote lecture, I thought I was going to give a fairly straight forward talk about boundaries and suddenly discovered that I am not really sure what boundaries are. But like Rogers [Brubaker] I also have a long standing interest in religion because of my interest in Denmark and Norway.