Interview with Dick Hobbs
We talk gangsters, London crime and dodging punches with the noted ethnographer
We talk gangsters, London crime and dodging punches with the noted ethnographer
Tim Hall on an informed probe into the world of illegal trade in East London
I was surprised to see Tara Brabazon argue that “the word ‘glocal’ should be avoided in academic writing on pain of death and/or watching looped episodes of Keeping Up with the Kardashians” (“...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
National brutality has taken many twists and turns but domestic savagery endures, finds Dick Hobbs
A fine ethnography reveals how poor Angelenos and the cops control each other, says Dick Hobbs
From living rent-free to Madoff’s fraud, a study of scams forces us to face our sins, says Dick Hobbs
Book of the week: Tim Hall on post-Soviet criminal clans, diverse and complex groups to whom lawlessness is anathema
Institutions have little evidence that their widening participation activities deliver, but they are working to change that, finds Chris Havergal
The power of immersive research, and what it is like to be an academic who spends months at sea
Scholars and senior sector figures on two books they plan to devour on holiday: a new must-read and a classic worthy of revisiting
Liverpool Hope UniversityMiss Canada to Lady MadonnaA Canadian musician has become the first student to complete the long and winding road to graduation on Liverpool Hope University's master's degree...
ART AND DESIGNThe Politics of the Piazza: The History and Meaning of the Italian SquareBy Eamonn Canniffe, principal lecturer in architecture, Manchester Metropolitan UniversityAshgate, £40.00ISBN...
London School of Economics and Political Science Paul Davies, professor of the law of enterprise at the University of Oxford and fellow of Balliol College, Cassel professor of commercial law; David...