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R/revolution
The Revolution (with a capital R), if it comes at all, is already too late. There has already been too much carnage, too many people killed, too many babies starved, too many young adults maimed, too many immigrants ripped from their families, too many hospitals destroyed, too many children orphaned,…
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Three Immediate, Cost-Free Interventions to Avert Collapse in UK Higher Education
UK higher education (HE) is undergoing a profound and deeply unsettling crisis. Universities across the country including Newcastle, Cardiff, UEA, Dundee and many others (seemingly by the day) are shedding staff, closing departments, and strikes are taking their toll. The sector is in a state of managed decline, and the…
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American TV and post-9/11 political imaginaries: 24, The West Wing and The Wire
Everyone my age will remember where they were on 9/11. I distinctly remember the BBC stopping a lunchtime episode of Neighbours for it, so I immediately knew something big was happening. As the day turned into a week, which turned into a month, which turned into a new epoch of…
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What is an Academic-Activist?
An activist-academic, as the literature outlines, at its most basic is a scholar who actively engages in social and political issues while pursuing academic research and teaching. Much of this literature stems from the radical continental philosophies of the 60s and 70s, Paulo Friere’s ‘Pedegogy of the Oppressed’ is perhaps…
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Avatar: The Way of the Water review – tired climate clichés distract from Cameron’s vision
It’s been 13 long years since we last visited the planet of Pandora. During that time back here on Earth, we’ve seen huge tumultuousness: economic crises, the rise of populist politics, a deadly global pandemic and a growing climate emergency. But on Pandora, very little has changed. The main hero…
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AAG2022 CfP: Solidarity not Charity! Reclaiming the radical politics of mutual aid in a post-COVID world
Organisers: Adam Badger, Jenni Cole, Phil Brown and Oli Mould **We are aiming to have a physical AND virtual session – February 25th to 1st March, New York & online** The COVID-19 crisis has seen monumental shifts in our understanding of the world and of each other. Yet, despite dystopian…
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Nurses 1% Pay Decision: Letter Template
Dear [Your Conservative MP] I am writing to you to convey my utter dismay at the 1% pay rise that your government announced recently for nurses in the UK. As you will no doubt be acutely aware, our NHS nurses have been, and continue to be, totally vital in the…
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MSc in Global Futures: Showcasing Student Work
The inaugural year of Royal Holloway’s MSc in Global Futures has been a challenging one, largely because staff, students and administrators have had to constantly adapt to what the pandemic has thrown at as. But it is testament to the resolve and intellectual agency of the student cohort that they…
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Geography isn’t dead. It’s the future…
For a time, it was fashionable to talk of the ‘end of geography‘. In the brave new financial and globalising world of the late 90s, the world wide web and telecommunications were going to obliterate borders and usher in a new ‘global village’. We all know how that turned out.…
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CfP RGS19 – The Final Frontier? The Enclosure of a Commons of Outer Space
The Final Frontier? The Enclosure of a Commons of Outer Space CfP for the RGS-IBG Annual Conference at the Royal Geographical Society, Exhibition Road, London, 28 to 30 August 2019. “Space: The final frontier” (Star Trek TV Series, Opening Monologue) “Capitalist production constantly strives to overcome these immanent barriers,…
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