About Me
Joel White is a writer and researcher based in Glasgow. He is involved with groups in the city that organise around mutual aid, migrant solidarity, prison abolition and anti-racism. His writing has appeared in Guardian, Wire, Tribune and the LRB blog. He co-runs the record label GLARC.
As of September 2025, Joel is a Wellcome Trust Early Careers Fellow at Edinburgh University, working on a project entitled: Archives of Care: Histories of Mental Health & Immigration Control in Scotland.
In June 2025 Joel released Friends in Common: Radical Friendship and Everday Solidarity, co-authored with Laura C Forster and published by Pluto Press
Joel has undertaken a wide range of qualitative research spanning anthropology, sociology and geography, with a focus on questions around friendship, care, the UK Border Regime, mental health, social movemement history, prisons & immigration detention, ethnographic methodology and anti-racist activism. He has carried out extensive ethnographic and archival research in Canada/USA and the UK, combined with active engagement in campaigning and activist groups.
Joel has also been involved with film-making, youth work, DJing, podcasts, radio, gig and event organising, and workshop facilitation. He is open for writing, editorial and other commissions via the contact page.
