Nasar Meer (Strathclyde University) and Christina Spaeti (Freiburg University) One of the earliest references to ‘Europe’ comes from a Greek myth [...]
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Viewpoint: Energy Art and the Metabolic Landscape Project
Geof Rayner (City University London) The philosopher George Herbert Mead, speaking to his students at the University of Chicago in 1909 [...]
Read moreOn the Frontline: Precarious work-precarious lives
Mandisa Malinga (University of South Africa and University of York) Unemployment is at the centre of the recent attacks on migrants [...]
Read morePolicy Briefing: Separation dents a mum’s confidence, but can she get over it?
Lucinda Platt (LSE) and Tina Haux (University of Kent) How does separation affect a woman’s view of herself as a parent? [...]
Read moreDeport, Deprive, Extradite: On the Removal of Rights in Terrorising Times
Nisha Kapoor (University of York) If Islamophobia has long marked Europe’s history, its contemporary expression serves a particular crisis of the [...]
Read moreIslamophobia and the Struggle for Recognition
Tariq Modood (University of Bristol) It was not very long ago that Anglophone scholars of racism understood racism in terms of [...]
Read moreFrom Anti-Semitism to Islamophobia: The European Far Right’s Strategic Shift
Farid Hafez (University of Salzburg) Only few politicians welcomed the success of Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud after the last elections in [...]
Read moreThe limits of analogy? Comparing Islamophobia and Antisemitism
Brian Klug (University of Oxford) A number of commentators have suggested that Islamophobia is ‘the new antisemitism’, as if they were [...]
Read moreKeep 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 [...]
Read moreProtest, 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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