Angela Impey

Angela Impey is a Professor in the School of Arts at SOAS University of London, specializing in ethnomusicology and its intersections with transitional justice, environmental justice, and post-conflict reconciliation. Her work spans Southern Africa, South Sudan, and global diasporas, with a focus on oral history, sound studies, and community engagement.

• Department of Anthropology and Sociology
• Research themes: Dinka songs, climate change communication, music therapy, postcolonial studies

Her recent publications, including the 2025 chapter Rain later, good, occasionally poor: Rhetorical listening in the time of climate change, emphasize interdisciplinary approaches to cultural sensitivity in development. She co-edited the 2022 Routledge Companion to Music and Human Rights and authored works on South Sudanese oral poetics, environmental justice in African borderlands, and music’s role in refugee advocacy.