Brian Klug (University of Oxford) A number of commentators have suggested that Islamophobia is ‘the new antisemitism’, as if they were [...]
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Keep Calm: Not a Terrorist
Elisabeth Becker Topkara (Yale University) “Keep calm: not a terrorist.” “An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.” “#Neveragain.”These [...]
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Protest, Movement Networks and Everyday Life: The back-story of political action
Luke Yates (University of Manchester) In popular commentary, protests appear unexpected and social movements unpredictable. They are ‘triggered’ by events, [...]
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Mind the Gap Year
Helene Snee (Manchester Metropolitan University) Prince Harry announced in March 2015 that he would be taking a ‘gap year’ on leaving [...]
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Is honesty always the best policy for parents of donor-conceived children?
Petra Nordqvist (University of Manchester) We tell our children it’s wrong to lie but, not so long ago, parents starting [...]
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How white working-class boys engage with the rhetoric of social mobility
Garth Stahl (University of South Australia) In the United Kingdom, it is widely documented both in academic circles and in the [...]
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How to think like a neoliberal
Kean Birch (York University, Canada) Most years I teach a course on neoliberalism. I end the first class with a game [...]
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VIEWPOINT: Hello to all that – the constrictive cult of public anniversaries
Peter Nias (University of Bradford) Diaries are full of them. So are the television and radio. Books, newspapers and magazines revel [...]
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ON THE FRONTLINE: Towards an Honest Commemoration of the American War in Vietnam
Veterans For Peace Full Disclosure Campaign On May 25, 2012, in announcing a 13-year long commemoration of the war in Viet [...]
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POLICY BRIEFING: Towards a Decolonial Curatorial Practice
Chandra Frank (Goldsmiths, University of London) Curating exhibitions on forgotten histories, contested legacies and silenced memories calls for a systematic decolonial [...]
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