Explaining the Normative
The "normative" defines a traditional faultline between philosophy and the social sciences. On the one side lies what we ought to do, on the other what we actually do. The difference between the two...
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The Canon: Hidden from History: 300 Years of Women's Oppression and the Fight against It. By Sheila Rowbotham
I can still remember the excitement I felt when, in 1981, I was offered a Social Science Research Council studentship to study full-time for my PhD at The Open University. I had intended to research...
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Terrorism: The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Charles Townshend finds a striking critique of counterterrorism sometimes goes too far
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The Music Industry: Music in the Cloud
It may read like a slice of vintage techno-hippy jargon, but using the term "cloud" as a metaphor for the internet has increasingly found favour among music industries commentators.The cloud was...
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Queer Dickens: Erotics, Families, Masculinities
With his "curious things", "odd corners" and "musty treasures", Charles Dickens makes himself and us at home with the queer. He is drawn to people who seem to be out of place, out of time and out of...
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Banished: The New Social Control in Urban America
Roy Coleman on the politics of fear and finance driving the police crackdowns on 'undesirables'
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Fiction across Borders: Imagining the Lives of Others in Late Twentieth-Century Novels
The semi-autobiographical narrator of Amitav Ghosh's In an Antique Land (1992) is touched when an Egyptian in the village in which he is conducting anthropological research tries to put himself in...
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Travels in the Reich, 1933-1945: Foreign Authors Report from Germany
Given the glut of books about Nazism that rehash familiar ground, Oliver Lubrich's Travels in the Reich achieves no mean feat in approaching the subject in a new way. Through a collection of accounts...
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EDUCATION- Dimensions of Expertise: A Conceptual Exploration of Vocational KnowledgeBy Christopher Winch, professor of educational philosophy and policy, King's College London Continuum, £75.00. ISBN...
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Queen's University Belfast - Unlocking the poverty trap
Researchers in Northern Ireland are taking part in the UK's largest study of poverty and social exclusion, which aims to find fresh solutions to deprivation. Researchers at Queen's University Belfast...
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Bangor University - Slick work
Crisis-struck energy firm BP should take note - marine bacteria could be the key to cleaning up oil spills without further damage to the environment, according to scientists. Microbiologists at...
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Rose Bruford College - Boost for young thesps
Students wanting to specialise in bringing theatre to a young audience are being offered a unique master's degree from next year. The MA in Theatre for Young Audiences at the Rose Bruford College in...
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University of Nottingham - Mighty oak to topple St George?
St George should be replaced as the national symbol of England by the oak tree, argues an academic. Markus Eichhorn, a tree expert from the School of Biology at the University of Nottingham, makes...
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Aston University - Out of the ashes
A team of academics has visited the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland as part of a study into evacuation procedures during major disasters. The visit was undertaken by scholars from the Centre for...
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University of Derby - Kindness of strangers
Researchers are developing a computer game to help highly self-critical people identify kindness in others. Psychologists at the University of Derby and Derbyshire Mental Health Services NHS Trust...