Politics

Nick Hillman assesses the arguments for and against banning certain speakers from campuses

NUS centre starts work with China-India relations, before turning to Sino-Japanese ties

Fear permeates all aspects of higher education, from classroom teaching to overseas funding 

Scholars from Africa, Latin America and the Middle East should have new opportunities to guide internally displaced person policymaking

David Gunkel enjoys a stimulating polemic about why we need to reflect on what ‘getting back to normal’ means in the wake of the coronavirus crisis

Jane O’Grady wishes this study of ideological inconsistencies had gone a bit deeper

China has issued threats to use its outward flows of students in geopolitical tussles – how significant could that be in wake of crisis?

Kalwant Bhopal thinks that the authors of a new anti-racism toolkit need to go deeper

Tributes paid to the British academy’s leading expert on Polish literature and culture

John Gilbey is fascinated by an ambitious attempt to analyse and address the disastrous human impact on the biosphere

The historian and author of The Politics of Humiliation discusses fairy tales and myths, the history of emotions, and the relationships between victim, perpetrators and onlookers

Open letter signed by more than 100 UK-based scientists, many of whom work in infectious disease biology and immunology

Tammy Lai-Ming Ho offers a local’s view of a well-contextualised look at the territory’s once-unthinkable pro-democracy demonstrations

Responses to the coronavirus touch on the deepest issues of the kind of society we want and need, says distinguished research professor

Failings on protective clothing have caused immense suffering for families of the dying, argues researcher

Andrew Delatolla gets a clear overview of the Arab Spring’s effects on the relationships between government and society in the region

Whether it’s to be ‘business as usual’ or not, social scientists have much to offer in discussion about how to move on after ravages of Covid-19

The author of The Olympic Games: A Critical Approach discusses seeing sport through ‘a feminist, anti-racist lens’, anti-doping efforts and Outback Noir

Jeffrey Kennedy, Simon Pek and Graham Smith explore ways of involving students far more deeply in the decisions that affect them

Catherine Rottenberg discovers how progressive causes can harness the power of ‘counter-data’ to challenge the status quo

Several years ago, a few young men who identified as ‘involuntary celibate’ formed a self-help group. However, they went on to embrace vicious and sometimes murderous misogyny. Kaitlyn Regehr tells Ellie Bothwell why she felt impelled to explore their disturbing world

Pace of disruptive change is falling, claims book by Oxford geographer, who says virus crisis could herald a kinder form of politics

Suzanne Franks on what the decline of traditional media means for our ability to hold power to account

Director of new Kent centre sets out how British resources and researchers can contribute to Indigenous studies

Tributes paid to ‘inspirational’ environmental sociologist who ‘made work feel like play’

Book of the week: Lynne Segal applauds a bold attempt to forge a comprehensive philosophy of resistance

Observatory looks beyond politics to psychology and ergonomics for ways to boost voters’ democratic participation

Debate continues over the withdrawal of a “dissent” course last year at Yale-NUS 

Academics are taking advantage of their freedom to launch new research, but question how long this will last

Madawi Al-Rasheed questions certain aspects of a survey of the events that convulsed the Arab world in 2011

Lincoln Allison enjoys a mixed bag of contributions about the wider contexts of sport

Matthew Reisz considers the researchers who keep on top of the issues we most want to avoid

Anne-Kathrin Kreft tells Matthew Reisz how interviews with Colombian women’s activists left her mentally and physically exhausted – and ideologically transformed

Book of the week: Andrew Palmer is impressed by a bold survey of literature on both sides of the Iron Curtain

Tributes paid to a pioneering feminist scholar and mentor who brought greater focus on gender to the study of politics

Suzanne Franks is unconvinced by the latest attempt to fight back against the symptoms of our post-truth world

Bryan Cheyette considers an intriguing account of the stories we tell ourselves about slavery

Giulia Miller is intrigued by a little-known episode in early Israeli history

Prince Andrew’s fall from grace a full decade after Jeffrey Epstein’s conviction underlines academia’s failure to probe modern power, says Jason Lee

Jonathan Mirsky is fascinated by a book that calls into question some of the unexamined received wisdom about China under Mao

David Lehmann assesses a journalistic account of clerical abuse in Central America

Amanda Power considers some of the deeper attitudes that can still inhibit academics from fully engaging in essential policy issues

Hugh Miall praises a bold new programme for putting an end to war

Ellen T. Armour applauds a powerful account of the role photography played in the struggles over slavery

Tributes paid to an expert on the theory and practice of democratic politics whose ‘intellectual brilliance’ was matched by a strong ‘sense of scholarly camaraderie’

Book of the week: Angelia Wilson applauds a bold new analysis of how the Republican Party’s determination to appeal to patriarchal, racist and religious voters reshaped politics in the US

The author of The Fire Is upon Us on childhood obsessions, racial identity and the power of primary sources

Book of the week: Zoë Waxman is fascinated by an ambitious argument about taking responsibility for the past injustices of which we are beneficiaries

Devorah Baum is fascinated by a look at how politics needs to take much greater account of the experiences of early childhood

Lennard Davis wonders whether activist academics have wrongly prioritised exuberantly bad behaviour over the hard graft of working for real change

Lior Erez is largely impressed by an attempt to adapt the ancient ideals of cosmopolitanism to the challenges of today

Joanna Bourke is impressed by a bold attempt to shed light on one of the last taboos

Jorell Meléndez-Badillo considers a globe-spanning study of the political philosophy that explores it at the intellectual and the street level

Schools used to be more honest about the pupils they were putting forward to universities, and not all applicants were predictably ‘passionate’ about their subjects. We would do well to recreate some of that spirit, says Lincoln Allison

Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes has often been at the centre of contemporary political battles over the country’s communist past

Kehinde Andrews is disappointed by a survey of thinking designed to take us beyond the limits of current politics

John Gilbey assesses a sobering account of why the internet doesn’t work for radicals

Ruben Andersson finds old fears repackaged in a thin academic offering

David Katz is unimpressed by an attempt to imagine a different Israel from elsewhere

Researcher hopes showing at United Nations will spur further action to help the most disadvantaged artisans