Justice, law and human rights
The authors of a recent article for the Journal of Gender-Based Violence conducted surveys with festival attendees to see the extent of safety at music festivals. These findings revealed that women consistently reported a distressing normalisation of unwelcome attention, harassment, invasive touching and violence.…Read more
Warren Chin, author of 'War, Technology and the State', looks at the effect of the fourth industrial revolution on the relationship between war and the state.…Read more
Tom Boland and Jody Moore-Ponce consider the limits of self-examination and ‘confessional critique’ in recent antiracist writing. This liberal, individually focused critique rarely translates into effective political action. …Read more
Louise Ashley, author of 'Highly Discrimination', explains why changing the City’s misogynistic culture is particularly challenging.…Read more
Sunit Bagree explains how inclusive urbanisation is all very well, but only if accessibility is affordable for the urban poor, and their human rights are considered. …Read more
Julia Margaret Zulver reveals how the mothers of the 100,000 missing children in Mexico mark Mother’s Day.…Read more
On the anniversary of the Electoral Administration Act 2006, Henry Tam charts the insidious moves by Conservative-led governments to undermine democratic participation. …Read more
Charles Devellennes, author of 'The Macron Régime,' examines the protests in France following the killing of Nahel Merzouk and delves into how Macron's ideology has transformed French society. …Read more
Parthasarathi Shome, author of 'The Creation of Poverty and Inequality in India', ponders the limitations of social science’s attempts to understand why poverty persists despite global and individual country attempts to eradicate it and alleviate inequality. …Read more
Federica Rossi and Chris Magill speak to Jess Miles about what state harms are, how they are justified, opportunities for resistance and whether academic research itself should be political.…Read more