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Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly, by Judith Butler
Book of the week: A shared sense of precarity is at the heart of recent disparate mass protests, says Mary Evans
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What are you reading? – 10 December 2015
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Diana and Beyond: White Femininity, National Identity and Contemporary Media Culture, by Raka Shome
Was it beauty, race or rebelliousness that created a global icon? Joanna Lewis surveys the evidence
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The First Book of Fashion: The Books of Clothes of Matthäus and Veit Konrad Schwarz of Augsburg, edited by Ulinka Rublack and Maria Hayward
David Rosenthal on a Renaissance man who recorded in detail his obsession with the functional aesthetics his clothing and dress
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Hope without Optimism, by Terry Eagleton
Priyamvada Gopal ponders the emancipatory potential of the ‘poor relation’ of faith and charity
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Microbes and the Fetlar Man: The Life of Sir William Watson Cheyne, by Jane Coutts
The work of a medical pioneer is painted on a canvas rich in domestic detail, says Helen Bynum
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New and noteworthy – 10 December 2015
From Lehman Brothers to La Leche League via disaster capitalism and 'the new retirement': new academic books worth adding to your reading list
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World-class universities ‘may not be best approach’ for emerging economies
BRICS and Emerging Economies Universities Summit hears that countries such as India should stop trying to play the West's game
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India will have the largest student population by 2025, study predicts
British Council research forecasts that China will remain the top provider of international students
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Higher education ‘part of problem of social inequality, not solution to it’
SRHE conference told that universities are at centre of ‘a race between competing social groups with unequal resources’
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BERA accused of taking ‘editorial control’ over journal
Dispute over British Journal of Educational Technology prompts resignations among editorial team
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UK Engagement Survey: universities have limited impact on students’ ‘soft’ skill development
Responses of more than 24,000 undergraduates indicate limited development in areas such as creativity and citizenship over course of degree
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White students gain less from higher education, UK Engagement Survey suggests
Black, Chinese and Asian undergraduates report highest level of skill development
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The week in higher education – 10 December 2015
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press