Building Castells in the city air
The Castells Reader on Cities and Social Theory
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Demoting the ruler of shaky kingdom
Risk, Uncertainty, and Rational Action - The Government of Risk
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work by a cultural theorist with psychoanalytical tendencies: "One of the most deplorable aspects of...
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Knitting a tale of the search for a truth
A Trial by Jury
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Capitalism with a dash of clarity
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
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How to deal with the displaced
Risks and Reconstruction
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Research without the jargon
Surveying the Social World
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In brief 1
The choice of a drag-queen cover ( THES , May 24) as a precursor to a comment in Ian Wilmut's book review about a hypothetical, eugenic "cure" for homosexuality is tabloidesque. Drag queens are a...
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In brief 2
What a narrow, unforgiving view of humanity James Tooley has if people must depress personal attributes to fit a definition of their ascribed gender role ( THES , May 17, 24, 31). The way forward is...
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In brief 3
The Race Relations (Amendment) Act is the best chance we've ever had to push through the culture change needed to make equal opportunities a reality in the sector (News, THES , May 31). Bill Gulam is...
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Boycott betrayal 1
Most staff probably know little of the "academic boycott" organised against Israeli universities ("Historian fears for academic freedom in Israel", THES , May 17). But on a recent visit to Israel,...
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Boycott betrayal 2
Is it Robert Lockie's view that the oppression of the Palestinian people is not "a matter of real importance" or that an academic union should not concern itself with "complex moral" matters (Letters...
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Dispute disputed
You misrepresented Natfhe-Westminster relations ("Local union row threatens national talks", THES , May 24). The now-resolved dispute referred to was local and had no bearing on national negotiations...
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'Failing'? Not us, insists Abertay 1
It is nonsense to suggest that Abertay University is "failing", is on a Quality Assurance Agency "critical list" and the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council is poised to "intervene" ("Abertay...
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'Failing'? Not us, insists Abertay 2
I made a conscious decision to leave an older university to set up a research centre at the University of Abertay. I have been impressed by the QAA process and by the innovative staff with whom I...