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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…

Scotland eyes a youthquake with online voting: here are some tips from past pilots

January 2, 2018February 15, 2018 by Admin

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One achievement for 2017, as the year comes to an end, is that it has added a new word to the English language: youthquake. The idea is that previously silent and apathetic young people have awoken to exert their democratic influence on the electoral process. Despite a 401% increase in…

‘Counter-terrorism policies play an important role in shaping a national identity narrative’: Conversation with Lee Jarvis

December 8, 2017February 15, 2018 by Admin

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This article is published in collaboration with the international Violence and Exiting Violence Platform (FMSH). Sylvain Antichan: Lee Jarvis, you are working on security discourses, the adoption of counter-terrorism policies and their political and social impact through the lens of the British case. After the London bomb attacks that were…

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)…

Why the idea of ‘generation’ needs to be articulated more carefully in politics

October 13, 2017February 15, 2018 by Admin

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Ben Little and Alison Winch explain the different meanings of generation in political culture and highlight the tension that exists between them. They argue that a successful application of the concept is able to mark both continuity and difference, turning the power of conservative thought to radical ends. In mainstream…

Strengthening Migrant Rights in Post-Brexit Britain

October 13, 2017February 15, 2018 by Admin

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Post financial crisis, the most persistent scapegoats for many parts of society has been migrants and refugees. Used by mass media, politicians and common people alike, the problems of Europe have been condensed in the spiteful image of the ‘others’. ‘Others’ to imagined national communities, ‘others’ to the European project…

Why do we want independence? A Catalan UEA student explains

October 8, 2017October 8, 2017 by Editor

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Following the attempts of the Spanish government to prevent an independence referendum, one of our Catalan students explains why he wants independence for Catalonia from Spain. Last Sunday, just like 2 other million people, I voted; and did so in favour of the creation of a new Catalan Republic. Since…

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