‘Counter-terrorism policies play an important role in shaping a national identity narrative’: Conversation with Lee Jarvis
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…
Brexit could kill the precautionary principle – here’s why it matters so much for our environment
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?
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
'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…
‘Joyful Cancer’
Being told by doctors that you are suffering from a serious illness is something we all dread. Carina is a 2016-7 Masters student of Broadcast Journalism in PPL. As part of her degree, she produced a “Dissertation by Practice” video, based on her own personal ex-periences. Her video has deeply…
What British Muslims think about the term ‘British values’
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
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
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
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
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…