Social science’s usage is preventing the discipline speaking truth unto power, warns Michael Billig
Social science writing talks of things when it needs to describe people, both the powerless and the powerful, argues Michael Billig
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Sally Feldman - Clocking off
Limiting hours would lift the burden on women, says Sally Feldman
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Letters
Professorial position: Liverpool, think againWe recently heard that the University of Liverpool intends to issue dismissal notices to 2,803 “non-academic” staff – 54 per cent of the institution’s...
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Fang-gangers
The use of pit bulls in a brutal murder led a criminologist to a dangerous underworld of gangs, backstreet breeding and dogfighting. Jack Grove reports
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Philosophy and Resistance in the Crisis: Greece and the Future of Europe by Costas Douzinas
Pavlos Eleftheriadis on an angry book charting a volatile situation
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Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing by Christopher Hager
Richard Follett on slavery and the power of literacy
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China Goes Global: The Partial Power by David Shambaugh
A neat model for the nascent superpower is proving elusive, says Kerry Brown
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Ubiquitous Listening: Affect, Attention, and Distributed Subjectivity by Anahid Kassabian
We can’t hear ourselves think over all this music, warns David Revill
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Crisis capitalism? What crisis capitalism?
A powerful critique of neoclassical economics raises profound questions for all, says Christopher Phelps
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Growing old and wearing your trousers rolled
Age has not withered him: James Stevens Curl enjoys the wry company of a kindred spirit
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Trial and intellectual error
A 20th-century battle between science and religion rages to this day, says Simon Underdown
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Laurie Taylor
Your place or mine?It’s been a busy week for our vice-chancellor. In between presiding over a further round of staff redundancies, he’s been on site supervising the extensive renovations to his house...
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