Cecily Jones, Independent Researcher Fourteen heads of Caribbean governments recently gathered at a summit in St. Vincent and the Grenadines to [...]
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Viewpoint: Rightwing Fascism and Intellectual Apologia in India
Dibyesh Anand, University of Westminster As India faces the prospect of voting into power in May 2014 of a Hindu majoritarian [...]
Read moreOn the Frontline: Democracy at 4am – Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement
Feng-yi Chu, University of Oxford While the world has been focused on events in Ukraine, another revolution has been taking place [...]
Read morePolicy Briefing: What Books Can Do Behind Bars
Sarah Turvey, University of Roehampton The Justice Secretary recently created a near-perfect storm of protest over what has become known as [...]
Read moreArms and the Woman: Militarizing gender wars
Image: Vron Ware Vron Ware, Open University You know the British Army is experiencing a crisis in recruitment when they start to [...]
Read moreMinisters look the other way as part-time student numbers plummet
Paul Stanistreet, NIACE Figures released by the Higher Education Funding Council for England in April highlight the continuing decline in part-time [...]
Read moreLean and Mean: How obsessive cost-cutting destroyed job security
John Hully “I’m afraid to tell you there’s no money left.” (Liam Byrne) For there to be austerity, there must be no [...]
Read moreJust Desserts? Class Disgust, Benefits Debates and Rethinking Value
Andrew Wallace, University of Lincoln ‘Austerity’ Britain has proliferated all manner of retro fashions, dispositions and attitudes, none more so than [...]
Read moreInstitutional Discourse and the Cult(ure) of Managerialism
Liz Morrish, Nottingham Trent University Some months ago, the Times Higher enlived a dull summer marking period with one of its [...]
Read moreHow would you like to die?
Image: Brightest comms + film. All rights reserved 2014 David Clark, University of Glasgow Have you ever considered how you might like [...]
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