Ending coercion against freedom: Bridging laïcité and religious literacy
Samuel Paty, History-Geography and Citizenship middle-school teacher in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, was murdered on October 16 2020 a few days after showing students Charlie Hebdo’s caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad during a class on free speech. The attack is a socking reminder of the decade old tensions affecting French society. Islam has…
Excluded at the ballot box: what stops people voting around the world and how to fix it
A first-time voter at the 2012 US presidential election. Larry W. Smith/EPA As the US election campaign nears its end point, one thing about the result is certain: a lot of people won’t vote. Turnout at the 2016 US presidential election was only 60.1% – even without a pandemic. In 2020 there is…
What does ‘decolonisation’ mean? A critique of the discourse of decolonisation in the Political, Social and International Studies department at UEA
Calls for ‘decolonisation’ has become stronger—or, to put it another way, “trendy” (Adebisi, 2019)—over the past few years within higher education in the UK and beyond, driven by student activism and campaigns such as ‘Rhodes Must Fall Oxford’ (ignited by the movement that began at the University of Cape Town,…
Blank spaces: reflecting on (my) teaching silences and exclusions
What would your lecture slides look like if you removed male authors? Professor Lee Jarvis had a look at his to find out. Like many of my colleagues, I have spent the last few weeks preparing for, and thinking about, my teaching for this semester. This year I’ll be delivering…
No Deal Brexit Risks Queues at the Border and Food Shortages, New Academic Report Finds
The most immediate and visible impact of the UK failing to get a deal with the EU will be seen at the border, with risks of queues and shortages of food, a new report by academic think tank UK in a Changing Europe finds. Prof Hussein Kassim is a professor…
Politics at the Edge Podcast: Black Lives Matter – Why the Protests went Global
https://soundcloud.com/user-913030598/black-lives-matter-why-the-protests-went-global Why did the #BLM movement capture the imagination in 2020? What was it about the death of George Floyd that led to protests in more than 4,000 towns and cities worldwide? And what can we learn from our own reactions to footballers taking a knee, and dancers who perform…
Politics at the Edge Podcast: Hamilton, Jefferson And Election 2020
What has the musical Hamilton got to do with the US Presidential election 2020? Clare Precey and Alan Finlayson are joined by Emma Long and Michael Frazer who sings a tune from his own self-written historical musical. https://soundcloud.com/user-913030598/hamilton-jefferson-and-election-2020
Racist Barriers to Voting Remain in the U.S. – But Action for Inclusive Elections are Needed Worldwide
Gail Welch may not be a household name, but the electoral official from Mississippi caused a social media backlash when she raised her concerns that ‘The blacks are having lots (of) events for voter registration. People in Mississippi have to get involved, too.’ It was meant to be a private message, she responded,…
Respect for Subjects in the Ethics of Causal and Interpretive Social Explanation
PPL's Michael Frazer published in the prestigious American Political Science Review on Respect for Subjects in the Ethics of Causal and Interpretive Social Explanation.
The Forgotten Question: Security Cooperation in a Post-Brexit Europe
It took three arduous years of negotiation between the European Union and the United Kingdom to conclude a withdrawal agreement. However, the ramifications from the loss of one of the EU’s strongest diplomatic and military members are underappreciated. The political declaration on the future relationship features only vague commitment from…