Costas Douzinas (Birkbeck, University of London) Over the last thirty years, sovereignty has become an endangered concept,(1) and there is no [...]
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The Curse of the Nation State and History as Remedy? Xenophobia and Migritude in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Julia Willén (Linköping University) We aim, politically, at government of the Africans by the Africans, for the Africans, with everybody who owes [...]
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The politics of emotion: what we can learn from responses to child abuse and social work
Jo Warner (University of Kent) For some 40 years, responses to the deaths of children from abuse and neglect have been [...]
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FORCING A SMILE: THE PLIGHT OF TODAY’S EDUCATOR
Ansgar Allen (University of Sheffield) It is hard to exaggerate the sad plight faced by today’s educators. They operate in a [...]
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Voluntary unemployment and left-dominated social policy academia
Andrew Dunn (University of Lincoln) The Coalition government has increased the number of conditions attached to receiving unemployment benefit (Jobseeker’s Allowance/JSA, [...]
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Black Friday: Shopping, Deviant Leisure and Hyperconformity
Oliver Smith (University of Plymouth) and Thomas Raymen (Durham University) The widespread importation of the US shopping phenomenon known as Black [...]
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On the Frontline: What is the Real Price of Cutting Migrants’ Rights?
Neena Acharya (Lambeth Law Centre) The way migrants are treated by national laws and policies in terms of status, access to [...]
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FOCUS: The Middle East, Hallucination, and the Cartographic Imagination
Image: British Library, Royal MS 12 C. xix, Folio 6r Daniel Neep (Georgetown University) ‘Do Iraq and Syria no longer really exist?’ [...]
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Viewpoint: Interview with Frances Fox-Piven
Image: Michael Fleshman (CC BY-SA 2.0) Gregory White (University of York) Frances Fox-Piven is an academic, commentator and author, and, arguably, one [...]
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On the Frontline: British Volunteers in the Spanish and Syrian Civil Wars
Richard Baxell (LSE) ‘Spanish Civil War metaphors get thrown around pretty casually’, observed Walrus Magazine editor, Jonathan Kay, recently. Yet despite [...]
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