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Differential and resonant solidarities: A materialist approach to the early career experience
Full text linkNavigating academia as early career academics (ECAs) is increasingly challenging, with many facing structural inequities, the rise of precarious work, and the increased marketisation of higher education in the United Kingdom and beyond. The purpose of this article is to provide a platform for learnings and insights gleaned from our experiences as five ECAs who worked together to lead the ‘early career network’ for a learned association between 2021 and 2023. In the article, we explore some of the challenges, opportunities, and call for actions that come out of our own encounters with the neoliberal higher education landscape as both students and workers in the social sciences. We propose a dual conceptualisation of solidarity as both resonant and differential, and mobilise this theoretical contribution to reflect on themes of community, materiality, care, knowledge, and labour as key strands which shape the interface between ECAs and complex higher education ecologies. Theoretically and practically, we aim to facilitate solidarity in early career communities, mobilising ‘ECA’ as more than a purely temporal category. Finally, we make recommendations to colleagues across the discipline for forging and nourishing collaborative, healthy, and inclusive environments in which ECAs can thrive
Climate finance and global justice
Full text linkAs the climate crisis deepens, efforts to incorporate climate issues into finance intensify. However, a significant limitation of the ongoing climate-related initiatives and policies in finance is that they ignore global climate justice issues, enhancing thereby processes that increase injustice. This paper first provides a classification of the channels by which climate finance initiatives and policies are exacerbating global climate injustice. These are (i) the ‘exposing by self-protecting’ channel that reflects how the ongoing attempts of private finance to protect itself from climate risks can increase climate vulnerability in the Global South, (ii) the ‘decarbonising by exploiting’ channel that captures how climate finance can exacerbate green extractivism and (iii) the ‘climate derisking’ channel that refers to the attempts of private global financial institutions to create new sources of profitability at low risks by exploiting the need for climate change mitigation and adaptation in the Global South. The paper then puts forward three pillars that should be incorporated into national and international climate finance so as for climate finance injustices to be addressed and the financial system to become consistent with global climate justice principles. Pillar I refers to the differentiated climate responsibilities for Global North and Global South financial institutions. Pillar II captures the need for Global North financial institutions’ climate mitigation actions to be consistent with global justice. Pillar III suggests the establishment of permanent mechanisms by which the Global North will support the financing of climate spending in the Global South, based on climate debt responsibilities as well as capabilities associated with the hierarchies of the global financial architecture. The paper also outlines the political economy and technical challenges that the incorporation of these pillars into the global financial system would face
The aftermath of translation: understanding the critical reception of Turkish fiction in English
Full text linkThis article examines Turkish fiction in English translation as a site of cultural exchange. Drawing on the theory of world literature and Turkish literary and translation criticism, this study aims to investigate how translated Turkish fiction is and can be received in English. The article argues that historically, the discursive impact, or “aftermath,” of translated Turkish fiction in English has been muted by a limited critical reception, much of which has hinged on critical frameworks that employ formulations of native/foreign dichotomies. This article proposes that we reconceive translated Turkish fiction as spectrally adjacent to English literature, engaging Rebecca Walkowitz’s concept of the “born translated” novel for world literature studies. It considers two illustrative examples, Latife Tekin’s Dear Shameless Death and Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’s Time Regulation Institute, by outlining their reception in English and new possible pivots for understanding them
Epigraphica Kitanensis Centenarium: A Hundred Years of Khitan Decipherment [Special Issue Of: Central Asiatic Journal. Volume 69]
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A St George's House Consultation
Full text linkThis report presents the themes and discussions at a closed 24-hour consultation held at St George’s House, Windsor, on 5–6 February 2024.Convened under the title ‘Democracy and Free Speech on Campus: Theory and Practice’, the consultation assembled 26 participants drawn from across the higher education landscape, including vice-chancellors, legal practitioners, policy specialists, student representatives, research funders and civil society actors. This consultation followed on from the 2016 St George’s House consultation ‘Freedom of Speech in Universities’, and deliberated the significant developments in law, policy, and public discourse since. In particular, the sessions held reflected the intensification of political polarisation in the United Kingdom (UK) following the 2016 Brexit referendum, the introduction of new statutory duties through the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023, and the reconfiguration of counter-extremism frameworks, specifically Prevent. This report summarises the discussions thematically. It does not seek to reach consensus, but rather to reflect the range of perspectives presented and to highlight the tensions and points of convergence that emerged over the course of the proceedings. The discussions were candid and reflected both the urgency of the moment and the deep structural contradictions within which universities now operate. This was an immensely valuable opportunity for students, senior academics, policy influencers and vice chancellors to talk together honestly and openly and search for solutions together
Spatialising Quit India’s Political Underground
No full textThis review essay examines Stephen Legg’s Spaces of Anticolonialism, focusing specifically on the book’s engagement with the Political Underground. Before discussing the book’s central contributions, it begins by laying out conceptual considerations for what it introduces as the Political Underground. Legg’s spatialisation of the Political Underground and his conceptualisation of Quit India’s underground movement as both subject and agent of anticolonial governmentalities are then presented as the book’s central contributions. The discussion also considers Legg’s methodological strategies for retrieving Delhi’s anticolonial archive, before closing with reflections on style, conceptual richness, and the book’s potential to inspire further research on underground and anticolonial geographies in India and beyond
Uttar Pradesh: BJP and the Mobilisation of Dalits and OBCs
Full text linkThe 2024 election result in Uttar Pradesh (UP) was a shock for the BJP. The party had expected to increase its vote share significantly but instead, its support fell, and it was beaten by the Samajwadi Party (SP)-Congress alliance when it came to parliamentary seats. This setback was particularly painful and humiliating as UP is the most populous state in India by far and it was also the epicentre of the party's rise to national prominence. The mass movement for tearing down the Babri Masjid mosque in Ayodhya in UP and building a Ram temple in its place propelled the BJP to power in the state in 1991, and the violent attack and demolition of Babri Masjid in 1992 enabled it to break through on the national stage. The article discusses the election results and the wider BJP strategy in UP. This leads to an analysis of longer-term political interests and strategies of different social groups, and how this matters for Hindutva in the long run. The main focus will be on Dalits and other oppressed social groups
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