A conversation about university education today that rearranges some of the deckchairs on the Titanic.
This statement appeared at the beginning of June in the Swedish broadsheet SVD, calling for a public investigation into the recent uprisings in Swedish suburbs.
November 2011 marks the centenary of a world-historic event. An Italian pilot, Guilio Cavotti dropped the first bombs from an aeroplane on to the oasis of Tagiura outside Tripoli. The development of aerial bombardment was more than just a military revolution. It changed both war and peace. openDem
In the first of a series tracing the strange career of multiculturalism, Paul Gilroy leading thinker on race and racism, and currently chair of African American studies at Yale University
It is 12 January 2003 and US president Bush has rallied his troops for what he calls “The first war of the 21st century”. What is your view of this crisis, where, briefly, do you stand? This is the question we are putting to people around the world, especially those with their own public reputatio
This is a delicate moment. Last Septembers attacks threw the political forms of globalisation into stark relief, at a time when, thus far, only its cultural and economic consequences
A shift has taken place in the language of inclusion and exclusion, of citizenship and rights. The talk now is of immigration rather than race. People in Britain are being
The first batch of reparation lawsuits has been initiated in the USA. But more welcome forms of symbolic restitution are also in the offing. The historic triumph of African American
It was in Cuba that concentration camps were first added to the political technologies of colonial modernity, during the Spanish-American war, an episode that ushered in The American Century we
Most commentaries on the horrors of 11 September 2001 have been delivered from two positions.
The first is a grounded location: the place of immediate rather than media-made spectatorship. Blanketed
