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Decolonisation in Higher Education
Long Read Review: Decolonizing Politics: An Introduction by Robbie Shilliam
August 24th, 2021
Africa and the Middle East
Long Read Review: The Education of an Idealist by Samantha Power
November 5th, 2019
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Europe and Neighbourhoods
Long Read Review: Carl Schmitt in and out of History
June 19th, 2019
Art, Lit and Film
Long Read Review: k-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher (2004-2016) by Mark Fisher, edited by Darren Ambrose with Simon Reynolds
February 28th, 2019
3
Africa and the Middle East
Translating Frantz Fanon Across Continents and Languages
December 12th, 2018
1
Britain and Ireland
The Case of Brexit, Expertise and Linguaphobia: Cosmopolitanism, Language and the Politics of Value
December 11th, 2018
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Art, Lit and Film
Long Read Review: ‘Repurpose your Desire: Xenofeminism and Millennial Politics’ by Mareile Pfannebecker
August 17th, 2018
3
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Feature Essay: The books that inspired Michael McQuarrie: “Mike Davis’ work connected with my own experience of urban transformation in New York”
December 8th, 2013
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Feature Essay: The books that inspired Alessandra Radicati: “I owe my interest in inequality to The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald”
November 30th, 2013
1
Long Read
Feature Essay: The books that inspired Maja Milatovic: “The works of Toni Morrison and Audre Lorde have motivated my engagement with African American women’s literature”
November 24th, 2013
2
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Feature Essay: The books that inspired Jeff Roquen: “I soon became a disciple of the social ideas of Gandhi after finding an anthology of his work in an independent bookstore”
November 10th, 2013
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Feature Essay: The books that inspired Kip Jones: “The 1960s magazine ASPEN continues to shape my use of arts-based tools in disseminating social science”
November 3rd, 2013
2
Long Read
Feature Essay: The books that inspired Carli Ria Rowell: “Bev Skeggs’ work motivates me during times of isolation that come with a PhD”
October 27th, 2013
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Long Read
Feature Essay: The books that inspired Simon Glendinning: “I did not put the book down again for the next five years. In fact, I could not say I have put it down even now, nearly thirty years later.”
October 20th, 2013
2
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Feature Essay: The books that inspired Scott Timcke: “Achille Mbembe’s On the Postcolony remains a central touchpoint of my academic identity”
January 13th, 2013
2
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Feature Essay: The books that inspired Sevasti-Melissa Nolas: “Classic reads like Daniel Dennett’s ‘Can Machines Think?’ shaped my early thinking about key philosophical challenges”
December 9th, 2012
2
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Feature Essay: The books that inspired Babette Babich: “the book that made me who I am as a scholar was Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason”
December 2nd, 2012
2
LGBTQ+
Feature Essay: The books that inspired Lee Badgett: “Robert Heilbroner’s book convinced me that the roots of inequality and of efforts toward change were to be found in economics as much as politics”
November 25th, 2012
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Feature Essay: The books that inspired John Van Reenen: “I think I always enjoy reading Conservative thinkers more than leftist ones. It’s much more fun to have books that really challenge your positions rather than confirming your prejudices”
November 4th, 2012
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Feature Essay: The books that inspired Pasquale Iannone: “the works of Italian film critic Aldo Tassone are a constant source of inspiration and insight”
October 28th, 2012
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Feature Essay: The books that inspired Robin Mansell: “I read Thomas Kuhn’s ‘Structure of Scientific Revolutions’ as a call to arms for a sociological account of science and innovation”
October 14th, 2012
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Feature Essay: The books that inspired Rainbow Murray: “I still cite ‘Femmes/Hommes pour la parité’ by Janine Mossuz-Lavau in much of my writing”
September 30th, 2012
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Feature Essay: The books that inspired Elisabeth Schellekens: “Kant’s Critique of the Power of Judgement is one of the most interesting and tantalising texts I know”
September 16th, 2012
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Feature Essay: The books that inspired Cynthia Enloe: “I’ve kept my folder of Hannah Arendt’s original yellowing magazine articles to remind me that profound works of political thought can (and should) appear on the local news stand”
September 9th, 2012
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Feature Essay: The books that inspired David Adams: “Looking back on urban studies publications that are 40 years old, it is fascinating to reflect on how up to date the themes are.”
September 2nd, 2012
Long Read
Feature Essay: The books that inspired Sue Currell: “Alice Walker’s ‘The Color Purple’ was the book that led me back into academia after I had dropped out of an English degree.”
August 26th, 2012
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Feature Essay: The books that inspired Sumantra Bose: “Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth touched a chord with both my national and personal background”
August 5th, 2012
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Feature Essay: The books that inspired Jannis Kallinikos: “Gregory Bateson’s essay ‘A Theory of Play and Fantasy’ is one of the most lucid texts in the social sciences”
July 29th, 2012
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Feature Essay: The books that inspired Tim Leunig: “I wanted to study the exciting stuff, the grand strategies of war and peace…I took economic history very much against my will”
July 22nd, 2012
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Feature Essay: The books that inspired Simon Griffiths: “In The Road to Wigan Pier, George Orwell wants to turn his reader’s head, to refocus their attention on aspects of the world that they’d previously neglected”
July 15th, 2012
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Feature Essay: The books that inspired Richard Hyman: “As an act of provocation I chose the Marx-Engels selected works as a school prize”
July 8th, 2012
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Feature Essay: The books that inspired Conor Gearty: “Plato’s Republic and Aristotle’s Politics had such a dramatic impact on me that I tried to dump law and read politics”
July 1st, 2012
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Feature Essay: The books that inspired Henrietta Moore: “A nineteenth century novel is a good story… the details are frequently overwhelming, not unlike doing ethnographic fieldwork”
June 24th, 2012
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Feature Essay: The books that inspired Dom Watt: “Lewis Carroll’s linguistic inventiveness fascinated me”
June 17th, 2012
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Feature Essay: The books that inspired Emmanuelle Tulle: “sociology can be as engrossing as art, it can produce documents which explain what previously would have been seen as inexplicable”
June 10th, 2012
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Feature Essay: The books that inspired Ron Johnston: “I had no intention of becoming an ‘electoral geographer’, but David Butler and Donald Stokes’ ‘Political Change in Britain’ grabbed my attention”
June 3rd, 2012
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