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British Values and Islam in Contemporary Britain

March 1, 2018February 28, 2018 by Editor

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Lee Jarvis draws on AHRC-funded research with Lee Marsden and Eylem Atakav to discuss contemporary portrayals of Islam, Muslims and British values. There are, according to the Muslim Council of Britain – a non-sectarian umbrella body for over 500 Muslim organisations – around 2.7 million Muslims living in Britain today:…

Fire and Fury: UEA staff and students react

February 6, 2018February 15, 2018 by Editor

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Michael Wolff's book 'Fire and Fury', which provides an inside story of Donald Trump's Whitehouse, set headlines around the world when it was published. A range of bombshell claims were made about how policy was made, Trump's approach to the Presidency and Donald Trump himself. A fierce debate followed. The…

Terrorist obituaries: some early research reflections

February 6, 2018February 6, 2018 by Editor

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Lee Jarvis reflects on his ongoing research project on terrorist obituaries. Terrorists - or, better, those who are widely portrayed as ‘terrorist’ - are remembered in a multiplicity of ways after their death. In murals and in music, in slogans and speeches, on t-shirts and online, in fiction and in film. All…

Understanding musical copyright in the digital age

January 28, 2018February 15, 2018 by Editor

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We need a more nuanced view of the practices and values associated with copying in popular music culture, write Adam Behr, Keith Negus and John Street Copyright appears in one of two guises. It is either the backdrop to arguments about plagiarism – about how ‘Blurred Lines’ was stolen from…

Brexit could kill the precautionary principle – here’s why it matters so much for our environment

November 23, 2017February 15, 2018 by Admin

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The world is witnessing an increase in the number and severity of hurricanes, droughts, floods and famines. A significant part of this is attributable to the temperature rises and disruption to the weather systems that human industrial activity has triggered. Yet at this very moment, when the world needs new…

What’s in store for the Precautionary Principle?

November 21, 2017February 15, 2018 by Admin

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Right now, the fate of the EU’s environmental principles in this country after Brexit is being debated by the House of Commons. Rupert Read sets out the prospects for the retention of the Precautionary Principle after Brexit. The current state of play The EU Withdrawal Bill is currently being debated…

Legitimate expectations

November 10, 2017February 15, 2018 by Admin

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'Should governments do what they said they were going to do? Let's suppose you're the head of a secondary school and you apply to the government for some funding for a major rebuilding project. The education minister writes saying you will get the money. So you call in the bulldozers…

What British Muslims think about the term ‘British values’

October 30, 2017November 14, 2017 by Admin

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Researchers at UEA investigate what 'British values' means to Muslims living in the region. [caption id="attachment_3451" align="aligncenter" width="926"] Views on British values, from British Muslims. Alif. Lam. Mim. by M.Malik[/caption] Channel 4’s recent programme My Week as a Muslim, in which a non-Muslim woman lived with a Pakistani family for…

The Trump Guide to Digging Yourself Out of a Hole

October 27, 2017February 15, 2018 by Admin

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A satirical take on the way Trump handles PR crises in the style of Machiavelli's The Prince. We all do it from time to time, or maybe more often than that. We dig ourselves into a hole. Well folks, here’s how to handle it. First, don’t even think about stopping…

British Values, Islam, East Anglia: Some findings and an invitation

October 16, 2017November 14, 2017 by Admin

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Watch a trailer for, and find out about, UEA’s AHRC-funded project on British [Muslim] Values. Over the last year or so, Eylem Atakav, Lee Marsden and I have been working on an AHRC-funded project titled: British [Muslim] Values: Conflict or Convergence. The aim of the project is to explore (i)…

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