Dr Jacob Mukherjee

Jacob works on social movements, political and communicative cultures and social media. He convenes MA Political Communications and the module Political Economy of the Media, and also teaches on Promotional Culture. He has previously taught at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Middlesex University and in the UK further education sector, and worked as Campaigns Officer for the housing campaign organisation Generation Rent.

Jacob’s PhD research, undertaken in MCCS at Goldsmiths, explored forms of radical oppositional collectivity in the context of neoliberalism, post-Fordism, global cities and the ubiquity of social media. The study built on his Masters’ research on the politics of the Occupy movement in the UK.

Alongside his academic work, Jacob has extensive experience of campaigns and activism, including in housing campaigns, trade unions and political education. He jointly runs the youth political education project Demand the Impossible.