bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Introduction to this Collection
Authors: Healy Jane , Colliver Ben
Published: January 2023

This chapter outlines the structure and approach to the collection, starting with an introduction to the concept of intersectionality. It positions the book’s epistemological standpoint within broader constructions of intersectionality, in that it offers an analytic approach to a range of social issues and problems, beyond race and class, as advocated by Hill Collins and Bilge (2016) and Crenshaw (1991). Subsequently it presents key themes and questions that are addressed within individual contributor chapters, including a consideration of the following questions: what factors drove individual authors to choose intersectionality within their research; what challenges and merits it introduced; and how individual authors negotiate their positioning in relation to their research. Consequently, it considers how intersectionality can contribute to our conceptualization of contemporary criminal justice matters.
Healing from Identity- Based Violence: An Intersectional Discussion
Authors: Pickles James
Published: January 2023

There are a variety of complex ways that violence directed towards identity manifests. Ray (2018) argues that violence takes many forms that include collective violence, self-directed violence, interpersonal violence and structural violence. Indeed, it is so entwined with the social world that it appears to be part of the human condition. This conceptual chapter conceives all forms of identity-based violence as belonging to a structure of oppression and marginalization that those targeted navigate as an everyday process. The trauma of such violence on those who are victimized – specifically for the identities they hold and present – is experienced intersectionally based on their social location. For instance, feminist developments have long argued that violence against women and girls is a tool of patriarchal oppression experienced across gendered, racial and class lines (Crenshaw, 1991). While victimological and criminological discourse has posited the nature of violence per se, few have theorized the nature of healing from such violence. Indeed, De La Rue and Ortega (2019) argue that women of colour are often more likely to be blamed for their victimization than white women as they are less likely to fit into the ideal victim model (Christie, 1986). Thus, in order to heal, one must consider the multiple layers of trauma and marginalization that both victims and perpetrators of crime must navigate. This chapter examines the nature of violence enacted against identity through an intersectional lens. The historical and contemporary traumas associated with identity-based violence are then explored, and by so doing this contributes to criminological debates on social harm and identity. It is argued that intersectional healing is gained through self and communal love, which can help marginalized people move towards personal and social justice.
Intersectional Oppression and Transgender People’s Experiences of Discrimination
Authors: Colliver Ben
Published: January 2023

Issues around gender identity have gained increasing prominence in the United Kingdom within academia, politics and social life. Transgender people have become the focal point of ‘debates’ surrounding ‘sex-based rights’ vs ‘gender-based rights’. Criminology has been slow to respond to the experiences of transgender people in relation to hate crime and discrimination, and has been overshadowed by issues relating to race, religion and faith, and sexuality. Possessing multiple, marginalized identities not only impacts upon transgender people’s experiences of hate and discrimination, but it also has material consequences for what social spaces and support services people can offer. This chapter provides an analysis of transgender people’s experiences of hate, discrimination and prejudice through an intersectional lens. The analysis presented in this chapter highlights how identity characteristics are imposed on transgender people as their ‘master identity’ within the context of different social spaces. As such, it is demonstrated how transgender people may be seen firstly as transgender and secondly as religious in particular contexts, but religious first and transgender as second in other. This will highlight the complex challenges that transgender people face when experiencing hate, but also in relation to accessing support and establishing a sense of ‘community’ and ‘belonging’.
Conclusion: Where Next for Intersectional Criminology?
Authors: Colliver Ben , Healy Jane
Published: January 2023

This chapter draws together some of the common themes and areas of crossover produced by the individual contributors. The chapter reflects on some of the key issues identified throughout the book that warrant further investigation, utilizing an intersectional framework to enhance our understanding of such relevant topics. The aim is to centre criminological and Criminal Justice research that is conducted and analysed intersectionally, work that often remains on the margins of criminology in the United Kingdom. This chapter reflects on some of the core tenets of intersectionality and how these have manifested within individual chapters. These chapters are situated within issues of social inequality, social context and social justice. This chapter highlights the lack of intersectional, criminological research in the United Kingdom and calls for further intersectional work to be conducted.
Male Independent Sex Workers
Authors: Mulvihill Natasha
Published: January 2023

This chapter presents extended narratives from five male independent sex workers working in England and Wales, as well as short excerpts from interviews with other participants. Topics covered include autonomy, harm, managing the law and hopes for the future. It also explores the impact of COVID-19 and the experience of participating in academic and government research.
Demystifying the ‘Decolonizing’ and ‘Diversity’ Slippage: Reflections from Sociology
Authors: Meghji Ali , Tan Seetha , Wain Laura
Published: January 2023

This chapter tackles the slippage between university initiatives that focus on ‘decolonizing knowledge’ and those that focus more broadly on diversity, equality, and inclusion. We focus explicitly on how decolonizing involves an inherent process of reconstituting schemes of valuing and producing knowledge. This differs from diversity’s focus on representation. In order to explore these dynamics of decolonizing knowledge production, we draw out the decolonial critique of Eurocentrism (that is, the practice of bifurcating the study of the West from the study of its global colonial interlinkages). We stress how decolonial thought embraces a relational mode of thinking that ties connections across time and space, and we look at how the calls for decolonizing knowledge are tied to the larger project of anti-colonial justice. We finish this chapter with some practical guides for teachers, academics, researchers, and students who are interested in engaging with the process of decolonizing knowledge.
Scholarship in a Globalized World: The Publishing Ecosystem and Alternatives to the Oligopoly
Authors: Mann Paige
Published: January 2023

Scholarly publishing has become a multibillion-dollar industry, increasingly dominated by a few large publishers. This oligopoly exerts tremendous influence through its control of the journals and ranking systems that can make or break both scholarly careers and library budgets. Valorizing Anglo-American models of scholarship, the oligopoly undermines alternative models of excellence.
Offering concrete strategies, this chapter suggests ways for scholars to transform an ecosystem currently centered around corporate juggernauts. By acting collectively to benefit fellow scholar communities, scholars can realize alternatives to a hegemonizing oligopoly.
Opportunities and Challenges in Integrating Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Diversity in International Studies
Authors: Abuso Gretchen
Published: January 2023

This chapter takes the Philippines as a case study of a postcolonial nation whose education system remains dominated by elitist and colonial perspectives. Focusing on the International Studies curricula in the country, this chapter provides practical methods and relevant materials that educators can use to emphasize local ethnic and cultural diversity in degree courses traditionally dominated by Global North models. The discipline of International Studies in any country, especially in the postcolonial Global South, needs to be grounded in the recognition, appreciation, and promotion of indigenous peoples and cultural diversity.
Late Modernity and the Governance of Rural Security: From Solid to Liquid
Authors: Bowden att , Pytlarz Artur
Published: January 2023

Late-modern times have been described as a ‘runaway world’; fast paced, globalised and consumerist. The transition to this stage of modernity, it is held, has been made possible by advances in computer technology and telecommunications that would transform the nature of work, leisure, consumption and, more importantly for our purposes, the relationship between the citizen and the state. Capturing the criminological implications of some of these changes, various criminologists have described how citizens in a hollowed out, smaller nation state, could not expect that state to provide security: that would now be the responsibility of the citizen to self-discipline and to fit themselves with security gadgetry for their own protection. This chapter draws a conceptual map of theories of late modernity and applies them to the nature of transformations in the rural. A theoretical case is developed, based upon ongoing empirical work in a highly globalised society with that has undergone a high-tech–driven economic growth, colliding both urban and rural worlds. The chapter considers how security responsibilisation becomes manifest in the rural, centring on the inclusion (and potential exclusion) of rural citizens in information flows.
Exacerbating the Gender Gap: COVID-19 and Gendered Inequalities in Work and Education
Authors: Grugel Jean , Barlow Matt , Lines Tallulah , Eugenia Giraudo Maria , Omukuti Jessica
Published: January 2023

Long-standing socio-economic inequalities and gendered social norms have meant that women and girls have faced heightened challenges in finding employment, especially ‘decent work,’ outside the home and receiving compensation and respect for unpaid social reproductive work. Meanwhile, the right of girls and women to education has gone unprotected by governments’ failures to take girls’ experiences into account. In this chapter, we focus on how these long-term failures have intensified during the Covid-19 pandemic. We look particularly at the impacts on women who work in un- and under-paid employment, showing how these women have endured heightened risks to their economic security, and argue that government response has been weak and limited. Then we discuss the impact of the pandemic on girls’ education. We recognise that important gains had been made in terms of girls’ access to education in low- and middle-income countries over the last twenty years, and ask, how far have these gains been undermined by government failures during the pandemic.
Livelihoods 2.0? Refugee Self-Reliance and the Digital Gig Economy
Authors: Easton-Calabria Evan
Published: January 2023

This chapter brings the history of refugee self-reliance assistance up to the present through a focus on the emerging topic of digital livelihoods and refugees, set against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic. Current scholarship, policy, and practice on refugee self-reliance rarely focuses on the global emerging phenomenon of the changing nature of work, which includes gig economies and innovations in technology, AI, and robotics. The conversion of work into digital form has multiple effects on societies, yet the impact on refugees has rarely been examined. This chapter offers an original perspective on how refugees are involved in the so-called ‘future of work’ through a review of over 150 initiatives to help refugees and other migrants access digital work, and a case study of a Syrian refugee in Cairo, Egypt, who developed his own successful online website to assist fellow refugees.
Fiscal Policy: Absolute Ceiling or No Limits to Deficit Spending?
Authors: Nölke Andreas
Published: January 2023

During the coronavirus pandemic, most governments have implemented a very expansionary fiscal policy. As governments faced a pressing demand to increase public spending within very short periods, the only available source of funding was borrowing. One of the core questions with regard to the economic policies in post-coronavirus capitalism is how to deal with this debt. Shall we bring the level of public debt — calculated in relation to gross domestic product/GDP — quickly back to pre-corona levels, shall it remain on the increased level or shall we even increase deficit spending, in order to fund post-crisis restructuring? After the crisis, most governments will prefer to continue operating on a high level of public debt, in order to avoid another recession. However, two groups of countries will encounter problems in this regard, on the one side highly indebted low income countries in the Global South and on the other side member countries of the Economic and Monetary Union, given the strict fiscal rules of the latter.
Tax Policy: Conventional or Unconventional Measures?
Authors: Nölke Andreas
Published: January 2023

During the coronavirus crisis, the focus on tax policy rather was on tax deferral and tax exemptions. However, given extraordinarily high level of public debt and limited capacities for additional debt, some governments will be forced to consider tax increases after the coronavirus recession, in order to avoid austerity policies. Increasing income or wealth taxation will be politically unpopular, whereas transaction taxes will further increase economic inequality. Correspondingly, governments may turn to unconventional sources of taxation, such as international minimum standards for company taxation, carbon taxes or even nationalizations as a means to extract resources after the crisis.
Finance: Fragile or Stable?
Authors: Nölke Andreas
Published: January 2023

During the coronavirus pandemic, we have seen how the process of financialization — particularly leveraged buyouts in the health sector by private equity firms — has aggravated the crisis. Operations by private equity companies have contributed to the severity of the pandemic and have deepened socioeconomic inequalities in the United States. More generally, financialization — for example by share buy-backs and share option — strips companies of the capital they require in a crisis such as the one caused by the coronavirus. Normally, this would have led to broad waves of insolvencies and non-performing loans, but the coordinated intervention by fiscal and particularly by monetary policies has prevented this wave in the Global North. The Global South was somewhat less fortunate, due to more limited fiscal and monetary firepower, but also due to speculative financial flows. Financial sector stability in post-coronavirus capitalism will remain elusive, unless the process of financialization is reversed.
Investor–State Dispute Settlement: Business as Usual or Moratorium?
Authors: Nölke Andreas
Published: January 2023

Before the coronavirus crisis, growing social opposition to investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) already has led to an exclusion of the latter institution in a series of investment treaties and trade agreements. This exclusion was part of the growing tendency towards protectionism that also can be observed with regard to trade policies and foreign direct investment policies. The fight against the pandemic, however, gives ample munition for new cases among the existing dispute settlement systems, for example based on state price regulations ensuring the affordability of drugs, tests and vaccines. Therefore, reform of the investor-state dispute settlement system is more prominent than before, with the target of narrowing down the rights for investors given by these mechanisms. This reform process has already started before the crisis. Given that governments — in contrast to investors — widely agree on the shortcomings of the existing system, it is likely that the coronavirus crisis speeds up this reform process, for example with regard to the creation of an appellate mechanism and to a more qualified selection of ISDS tribunal members.
Authoritarian or Democratic Capitalism?
Authors: Nölke Andreas
Published: January 2023

The coronavirus pandemic has weakened democratic capitalism, in favour of authoritarian tendencies. This is particularly worrying because the global state of democracy was already quite problematical before the outbreak of the crisis. The pandemic has deepened authoritarian tendencies where these were already relevant and has posed new challenges to democratic systems, particularly to parliaments. The pandemic originally had strengthened technocratic authority, but later has cast this authority frequently into doubt and has led to a politicization of debates about health measures.
Boys, Childhood Domestic Abuse, and Gang Involvement
Authors: Levell Jade
Published: January 2023

This book shines a light on the lives of men who are simultaneously invisible as child survivors of domestic violence and abuse (DVA), but also rendered hypervisible as on-road and gang-involved young offenders. The author explores in-depth life stories, focusing on the ways men – child survivors of domestic abuse and on-road/gang involvement – navigated their own sense of masculinity and manhood. Using the unique research method of music elicitation, participants were asked to bring three music tracks that helped them articulate their life stories. They discussed the ways in which they coped with childhood experiences of male violence, before engaging in all-male gangs. The author situates this within a wider context of gender inequality and patriarchy. This analytic focus on masculinities draws on Raewyn Connell’s concept of hegemonic masculinity and protest masculinity, which was supported by the application of intersectionality to focus on the impact of race, ethnicity, and class on gendered identity. The findings illustrated how the participants went through changing understandings of masculinities through the life course. Co-existing harms such as sexual violence and sexual exploitation, school violence and exclusion, and peer-on-peer violence are discussed, with suggested implications for policy work and interventions. The author examines the connection between masculinity, vulnerability, and violence, suggesting that these are in a symbiotic relationship that is made visible through an understanding of protest masculinity. Ultimately this book brings forward a unique understanding of the gendered impact of gendered violence on boys and men.
The Problem of Modernity and the Decolonial Project
Authors: FitzGerald Maggie
Published: January 2023

The argument of this book departs from the premise that the central obstacle to rethinking global ethics in the context of the pluriverse (or to put it differently, the central obstacle which prevents much of the field of Global Ethics from thinking pluriversally) is modernity. The purpose of this chapter is to delineate the understanding of modernity mobilized in the book, building particularly upon postcolonial and decolonial schools of thought, and to demonstrate why modernity is an obstacle to building a pluriversal ethics. In short, this book argues that modernity is a world, a collective thinking/being/doing, an onto-epistemology; it is an ideology and political philosophy, an understanding of subjectivity and the world, and then a normative commitment to ordering the world according to these premises. Modernity is therefore also a set of practices and social relations; it is a continual enactment and reproduction of a particular order. Importantly, this enactment and reproduction does not occur within a vacuum. As such, modernity, as a world, is also always implicated with and in other worlds. It is demarcated by other worlds, and it interacts with other worlds in various material and symbolic ways. Understanding modernity as connected to other worlds foreshadows why this particular definition of modernity is useful in the context of the pluriverse, that is, a matrix of worlds connected through/by relations of power.
Partial Connections: The Pluriverse, Ethics, and Care
Authors: FitzGerald Maggie
Published: January 2023

Chapter 5 builds on the theoretical groundwork laid in Chapter 4 and begins to draw out partial connections between the pluriverse, care, and ethics. It is argued that when morality is understood in a care ethical sense, the pluriverse can be fruitfully conceived of as a meta-world defined by a co-constitutive relational ontology, situated epistemology, and axiology of partial connections. Further, from this definition, the pluriversal project must then also be fundamentally acknowledged as a normative project, and the moral and ethical dimensions of the pluriverse must be made explicit in thinking about and enacting the pluriverse. In this way, this chapter argues that while the Global Ethics literature needs to contend with the pluriversal challenge, the literature on the pluriverse would likewise benefit from a sustained engagement with moral philosophy, like the ethics of care. This chapter demonstrates further the generative potential of such an engagement by explicating how the ethics of care additionally aligns with, and usefully expands, thinking about the pluriverse as a meta-world defined by a co-constitutive relational ontology, situated epistemology, and axiology of partial relations of care.
Fragmentation in Contestation: The Movement during the EIR Process
Authors: Anderl Felix
Published: January 2023

The outcomes of the Extractive Industries Review, seen from the perspective of many critics, were perceived as disappointing. They missed tangible changes in the mining and resettlement policies, and the termination of investment in oil and gas in development projects. Yet, as this chapter elaborates, some of the professionalized NGOs came to see the value of gains made during the process of consultation, endorsing the institutional rules and its formalized bureaucratic culture, and enjoying the growing opportunities for participation. Engaging in the Extractive Industries Review, the critics entered a constellation of complex rule by playing along the five governing mechanisms. In effect, the critics became divided among themselves, the result of which was the crumbling of their resistance.
Rules, Institutions and Decisions: Taking Distribution Seriously
Authors: Klabbers Jan
Published: January 2023

In this chapter, Jan Klabbers seeks to start a conversation on the role that international rules, institutions and decisions play in achieving, channelling, promoting or facilitating particular distributive results. His inquiry is inspired by the observation that in the almost 500 pages of Praxis, Fritz Kratochwil pays little attention to distributive questions. Klabbers claims that getting to the distributive effect of rules, institutions and decisions requires a dual intellectual operation. It will require, first, relaxing the strongly state-centric approach prevailing in the study of international affairs, in combination with, second, a realization that law, politics and economics should not neatly be separated but rather should be treated as single decision-making moments or units. He illustrates his theoretical discussion with the case of the venerable Universal Postal Union to show how concrete (non-state) interests combine with the role of a concrete (non-state) institution.
I Think, Therefore IR? Psychology, Biology and the Notion of Praxis
Authors: Davis James W.
Published: January 2023

In this chapter, James Davis discusses the perspective of the first person plural in Kratochwil’s conception of praxis, examining links and tensions between Kratochwil’s constructivism and current behavioural research in the fields of psychology and neuroscience. He argues that without a conception of ‘we,’ there is no language or discourse, no possibility for authority or justice, and perhaps more controversial, no feelings or sentiments. Davis wonders how the such constructed ‘we’ relates to the psychological and biological agent, ‘I,’ who is engaged in praxis. He contends that the thick constructivism that underpins Kratochwil’s notion of praxis at once is too radical and too conservative. It is too radical because it neglects how biology constrains what human beings in social settings can construct. Yet in ignoring how culture affects biology, it is simultaneously too conservative.
Practising Academic Intervention: An Agonistic Reading of Praxis
Authors: Wiener Antje
Published: January 2023

In this chapter, Antje Wiener considers Kratochwil’s praxis approach to international studies as a series of academic interventions with two lasting effects. The first consists in the project of studying human action and its effect on the transformation of norms, rules and orders through redrawing disciplinary boundaries of international studies. Second, she argues that Kratochwil’s work enabled subsequent generations to engage in critical questions about international studies and advance knowledge building on these interdisciplinary strands of theoretical engagement. Praxis is used here as a foil to discuss effects of academic intervention, taking into account the positions of privilege and responsibility. Wiener reads Praxis as a ‘most compellingly expressed urge to act through theory.’ This is done, she argues, by engaging interdisciplinary knowledge through contesting the work of others and holding their claims to account. The purpose of intervention consists in bringing knowledge to bear in order to identify transformations within the fundamentally contested Western narrative of world order.
Praxis, Humanism and the Quest for Wholeness
Authors: Steffek Jens
Published: January 2023

In this chapter, Jens Steffek places the praxis approach in the humanist tradition of social and political thought, interpreting it as a quest for wholeness in a modern world full of reductionism and fragmentation. He finds the humanist legacy of praxis in Kratochwil’s epistemological position, which suggests that we can, and should, grasp human agency in all its facets by studying complex, historically situated situations of decision-making. Kratochwil deploys an Aristotelian concept of praxis, in combination with American pragmatism, to argue that there is continuity between scientific inquiry and real-world practices. Having outlined this perspective on praxis, Steffek asks how world-observing scholars can adequately understand a real-world praxis that they do not enact. He argues that the reflexive-critical stance of the social scientist who dissects real-world practices to gain knowledge about them is hard to reconcile with the habitual conduct of actors who rely on tacit and unquestioned knowledge.
Introduction: Critical Engagement in South Africa and the Global South
Authors: Bezuidenhout Andries , Mnwana Sonwabile , von Holdt Karl
Published: January 2023

This volume identifies South Africa as the birthplace of the concept of public sociology, popularized globally by Michael Burawoy, and charts the contrasting trajectories of ‘public sociology’ and ‘critically engaged sociology’ as found in South Africa. The focus is on researchers and research conducted at the Society, Work and Politics Institute (SWOP) at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, as well as work by researchers associated with the institute through collaborations of one sort or another. The introduction goes on to provide a thumbnail sketch of SWOP and its history, founded as it was in 1983 in the most turbulent decade of popular uprisings against apartheid. It locates SWOP’s commitment to ‘critical engagement’ with popular movements, the democratic trade union movement in particular, in the context of the evolution of South African sociology and the particular space it occupied in the forging of a new radical and critical social science. The chapter goes on to provide a sketch of Burawoy’s successful campaign to popularize public sociology globally, and it ends with a description of the chapters collected in this volume.
Dilemmas and Issues Confronting Socially Engaged Research within Universities
Authors: Claassens Aninka , Sihlali Nokwanda
Published: January 2023

This chapter describes the work of the Land and Accountability Research Centre as an activist research centre at the University of Cape Town. It focuses on the co-creation of knowledge with rural community partners, suggesting that such co-creation transcends the concepts of ‘public sociology’ and ‘critical engagement’. It posits that current university criteria to measure research outputs fail to recognize the societal value of such forms of knowledge, focusing instead on specific individual outputs which discourage young researchers from investing in the rich but time-consuming process of building community partnerships that respond to community-identified research priorities. These entrenched criteria risk undermining innovative forms of research excellence that address pressing societal problems identified by the people directly affected.
What Are the Driving Forces of Disintegration? A Response to Ben Rosamond and William Outhwaite
Authors: Meyer Christoph O.
Published: January 2023

Brexit has prompted renewed calls for EU studies to take seriously the problem of European disintegration. In fact, ‘disintegration’ has been on the field’s agenda for some time. With the EU suffering a ‘perfect storm’ of crises, some of which are thought to be existential, it is perhaps unsurprising that there have been calls to theorise disintegration (Zielonka, 2014) as well as a few attempts to map out what a theory of disintegration might look like (Jones, 2018; Vollaard, 2014, 2018; Webber, 2014). Part of the turn to disintegration has involved thinking through how and whether standard theories of integration would cope with the unravelling of the EU (Schmitter and Lefkofridi, 2016) or at least to posit ‘disintegration’ as an outcome that could follow from the interactive effects of several independent ‘crisis’ variables (Schimmelfennig, 2017). Meanwhile journalistic treatments, confronted by the eurozone and refugee crises along with the prospective exit of a key member state, often question the sustainability of the EU project.
Laclau and Mouffe’s Blind Spots: A Reply to Philip Goldstein
Authors: Fournier Philippe
Published: January 2023

This reply to Philip Goldstein’s ‘Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe: the evolution of post- Marxism’ makes the case that Laclau and Mouffe’s work is symptomatic of a flight into abstraction that has muted the genuinely critical aspects of the Marxist tradition and failed both to reflect and guide protest movements in the age of neoliberalism.
Prophetic Types and the Penal Sanctuary
Authors: Skotnicki Andrew
Published: January 2023

Chapter 5 will explore the question of who, exactly, are the contemporary prophets. Here, a distinction will be embellished between involuntary and voluntary prophets. The former assemblage is constituted by those whose life condition, invariably mired in poverty and social immobility, invokes spontaneous feelings of acute distress, frequently accompanied by the wild comportment and adverse reaction toward the citizenry at large that has led to their seizure and forcible removal from public spaces. This exposition will be followed by a profile of the voluntary prophet, one who has the conviction that he or she has been chosen by God, or by some unseen and, normally, unsought herald, to deliver an urgent message. That missive is always explosive in its substance as well as its intent. It seeks to undermine definitively any social, political, and economic structure that debases the sacredness of creature and creation. The chapter will end with a brief exposition on the prison as the sanctuary of the prophets.
From St Kilda To Kings Cross
Authors: Sergi Anna
Published: January 2023

There are songs that brand entire experiences or entire periods of your life. For me, in Sydney, that song was ‘From St Kilda to Kings Cross’, by Australian songwriter Paul Kelly. One of those songs everyone seems to know in Australia. And the lyrics I can still recollect: ‘From St Kilda to Kings Cross is thirteen hours on a bus | I pressed my face against the glass And watched the white lines rushing past | And all around me felt like all inside me | And my body left me and my soul went running.’ This is the song I listened to the first time I went there. And at the moment when I realized that Sydney never quite conquered my heart. Unlike Paul Kelly, the first time I went to Sydney, it was by train and not by bus, from Canberra. It was October 2015 and I had been in Canberra for a week or so. A ‘week or so’ in Canberra equals three months. I don’t get that city. Large avenues, few cars, many shopping malls, the smallest city centre ever, hidden in between malls, no one around, everyone inside massive buildings, shops, houses. Is this how Australia is run? For three days I couldn’t even find a proper restaurant because I was living in the southern part of the city, far away from what they call the Civic Centre. You cannot properly walk in Canberra; the roads are meant for cars. It is all large white buildings immersed in their own green lawns.
Bombs, Bridges And Gold
Authors: Sergi Anna
Published: January 2023

What a city, Adelaide. ‘The city’s asleep and the church is bare’, someone said to me once about Adelaide. I never quite knew where this quote came from; I did Google it and couldn’t find it! A fitting description, the warmth, the sleep in between churches, Adelaide. ‘What kind of Italian are you?’ What do you read in this sentence? Probably nothing, really. The meaning, as is often the case, is given by the context, and by the sender. This was a message I received in my inbox in July 2019 – I was in Montreal. I ignored it. ‘You must be the cop-lover traitor kind of type.’ A follow-up message, same person, in December 2019, months later. Why? Why would someone you don’t know send you unsolicited messages like this one? Someone you know only by their family’s surname; someone that you know that they know who you are and what you do for a living. I guess to some people these messages could sound provocative or just like a nuisance. For me, they were about recognition. He knows that I know who he is and he counts on that when sending a few words that are not just provocative, they carry a pinch of intimidation. This was the second time I got unwanted attention and ‘friendly’ warnings from someone allegedly close to ‘ndrangheta clans. Of all places, in Adelaide, a city where nothing much seems to happen. The first time I had this unpleasant experience, it was my first time in Adelaide. I couldn’t really believe then that someone would tell me to ‘start doing something else’ and that my surname ‘attracted attention, you know?’ and ‘What? You think they don’t know you are poking your nose into their affairs?’ I couldn’t really believe that was happening to me, I didn’t really know anything about anyone, I had just started my research! Ah, how the optics of what you seem to do and know count more than what you actually do and know!
The Port, The Sea And The Wrong Sun
Authors: Sergi Anna
Published: January 2023

The port of Gioia Tauro was always there, yet was never there, in my youth. Something so big and yet so out of place. No one seemed to be working at the site of the port of Gioia Tauro on a Monday morning in November 2017. I had driven by the port fences many times before but that time I stopped. Where was everyone? At 12.00 on a Monday morning, shouldn’t it be buzzing with activity? It struck me as an anomaly that one of Italy’s busiest ports, as far as I knew, was so deserted. I didn’t know much about ports then; I did not know how containers were moved from one place to the other; I didn’t really know how drugs were moved through containers either. In summer 2018, on the beach of San Ferdinando, in front of a €4 Aperol Spritz as orange as the falling sky over the sea, on the left there it was, the port again, with the cranes over the water, the arms of global trade over the sea, as I would learn visiting other ports from 2019 for research on drug importation and organized crime on the waterfronts and harbours around the world. It’s strange how certain things, even if they are always there, impossible to miss, eventually get missed. It’s difficult to unpack in my head why the port of Gioia Tauro was always there and yet was never there when I was a child. A self-contained world, that of a port, in the middle of three towns – Rosarno, Gioia Tauro and San Ferdinando – that looked completely out of place in comparison with the surrounding territory.
Before
Authors: Hill David
Published: January 2023

Before the book begins in earnest, it is established that our environmental catastrophe is marked by our masquerading in the present, refusing the future by refusing a responsibility for the other radical enough that it would reject the present and its deleterious conduct. There is then a brief encapsulation of the idea of moral gravity that will run throughout the book, as humility in the face of vulnerability and enthusiasm for lives that are precarious, as the graveness of existence and acceding to the pull the other. An overview of chapters then finally gives the more concrete form of the argument to come for an environmentalism of precarious lives.
Pessimism
Authors: Hill David
Published: January 2023

The first chapter explores the use of pessimism about climate change, arguing that it need not be a fatalism or a nihilism but instead a responsible narcissism, a yearning for a community of precarious lives in anticipation of our collective death, a community founded on the humility of the individual and its enthusiasm for others. It is argued that in this confrontation with the very worst, the individual in its self-regard is undone and then remade in orientation towards the other, opening to a future that is habitable only because it is a radical break from the present. We can look at the catastrophe and think ‘we’re fucked’ but only if this ‘we’ situates the individual in a heterologous community that in turn situates our hopelessness in a precarious hope.
Exodus
Authors: Hill David
Published: January 2023

The second chapter takes on calls by tech entrepreneurs to abandon the earth and move our lives to Mars or other extraterrestrial sites. It is argued that not only is this exodus congruent with the rapacious colonial logic that has left us here stricken in the first place, but that it posits a lifeworld so alien to human experience, and with such little regard for human difference and nonhuman others, that the human simply would not survive the transplant. As such, it is concluded that we would be better off staying together here on earth rather than embarking on an exodus not just from this planet but from the existence it sustains.
Responsibility
Authors: Hill David
Published: January 2023

The third chapter begins from the position that we have more to save here on earth if we take more seriously the moral claims of nonhuman animals. Whilst there is little we can say about the animal's responsibility towards the human, it is argued that the encounter with the animal is a moral encounter insofar as it is an encounter with both excession and vulnerability, and that both these conditions are communicated by the animal in a way that demands human response. Ultimately, this animal vulnerability is only moving if it is taken seriously, demanding of the human an attentiveness to the suffering of animals, to approach a world it is heating and destroying with a responsibility to listen to the calls of precarious lives that are not analogous to our own.
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Authors: Hill David
Published: January 2023

At the end of the book there is a brief if tentative conclusion that gives a summary of the work but that also makes the case that the real work of a revolution in morality is to be enacted in and with and for communities of precarious lives. There is then a final conceptual contribution, an elaboration of responsibility as an urgent patience. This is not a patience that is unhurried in the face of climate change, but rather an understanding that whatever we do now in response to environmental catastrophe cannot be done without the endlessly demanding work of listening to others and responding to others and saving the worlds of others before our own, with urgency but not without the patient work of responsibility.
Pandemics, Metaphors and What it Means to be Human
Authors: Nerlich Brigitte
Published: January 2023

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Managing Pandemic Risk in an Interconnected World: What Planning a Wedding Shows about Early Responses to the COVID-19 Outbreak
Authors: Cuevas-Garcia Carlos
Published: January 2023

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Imperilled Humanities: Locked Down, Locked In and Lockdown Politics During the Pandemic
Authors: Goodley Dan , Runswick-Cole Katherine
Published: January 2023

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“Why Would I Go to Hospital if It’s Not Going to Try and Save Me?”: Disabled Young People’s Experiences of the COVID-19 Crisis
Authors: Liddiard Kirsty , Runswick-Cole Katherine , Goodley Dan , Spurr Ruth , Whitney Sally , Vogelmann Emma , Watts MBE Lucy , Evans Katy
Published: January 2023

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Science Advice for COVID-19 and Marginalized Communities in India
Authors: Pandey Poonam , Sharma Aviram
Published: January 2023

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Frailty and the Value of a Human in COVID-19 Times
Authors: Goodwin Dawn , Shelton Cliff , Weiner Kate
Published: January 2023

At the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK, NICE produced a rapid guideline for managing critical care in adults that made frailty pivotal to assessments. This aimed ‘to maximise the safety of patients who need critical care …[and] enable services to make the best use of resources’. Consequently, frailty became key to avoiding potentially harmful interventions and, implicitly, to rationing access to care. This chapter explores what frailty is, how it became a central construct for making care assessments during the pandemic, and the implications of this. We find multiple understandings of frailty, but at a policy level we suggest potential for large-scale discrimination.
Inclusive Education in the Post-COVID-19 World
Authors: Pilson Anna
Published: January 2023

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From Tina to Tama: Social Futures and Democratic Dreaming in the Ruins of Capitalist Realism
Authors: Raven Paul Graham
Published: January 2023

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Taking the Lines Off the Map
Authors: Michelsen Nicholas , Bolt Neville
Published: January 2023

In this chapter, Michelsen and Bolt examine the role that maps fulfil in world politics. States demarcate their borders according to so-called Westphalian principles, and these limits are recognized, indeed sanctified, within the international community of sovereign states. Lines on a map are legal fictions that states attempt to translate onto the ground. Yet all mapping conceals as much as it reveals, and insurgent cartographies are continuously emerging to challenge the state map. Discussing mapping projects throughout history, from the work of the potter Grayson Perry to the Millionth Map, and the various attempts by states and empires to impose their political order on the world, this chapter turns to revolutionary, insurgent and counter-insurgent mappings from Russia to Northern Ireland to Palestine.
A Great Unmapping
Authors: Michelsen Nicholas , Bolt Neville
Published: January 2023

This chapter examines how the state become the centre of modern history, dividing the world into geographic places bound to national identities. As this chapter outlines, the state is not the only map of social organization in human experience. This is explored though a discussion that runs from the campaigns of Ghengis Khan through Ibn Khaldun’s theory of history, centred on the opposition between nomads and states, to the aesthetics of fascism. Michelsen and Bolt investigate what is lost when we privilege the state in our histories as an ideal form of political organization that shapes the present.
Rengger’s War on Teleocracy
Authors: Brown Chris
Published: January 2023

In one of his earliest papers, ‘Serpents and doves in classical international theory’ (1988b), Rengger set out themes that would be important to him for the next 30 years, including a Rortyan/Oakeshottian commitment to conversation as the appropriate mode of human inquiry, with the premise that there is no truth to be discovered, and a healthy scepticism directed towards reformist projects in international relations. These themes are still present in his final works on just war and the anti-Pelagian imagination, but in a new, and less attractive, more dogmatic form. His critique of ‘teleocracy’ had hardened into something that no longer resembled a conversation, and his critique of progressivism involved the burning of a multitude of straw men. In 1988 Rengger aspired to be one of Rorty’s ‘edifying’ philosophers, by 2018 he seemed in danger of becoming committed to a system.
Just War as Tradition in a Civil International Order
Authors: Morkevičius Valerie
Published: January 2023

Among the areas to which Nicholas Rengger contributed was the scholarship on the ethics of war. The just war tradition (JWT) is a tradition in a challenging sense. It brings varied strands of thinking about justice and war, some at odds with one another, together under a broad tent. Like all intellectual traditions, the JWT is in a state of change over time, with much of that change being driven by new social, political, and even technological developments that the JWT needs to address. This process is invariably one of contestation in which some proposed directions are accepted while others are not. Rengger’s treatment of the JWT, which owes much to Oakeshott and his concept of tradition, which is not entirely compatible with the JWT, came to be that of a friendly critic: sympathetic to the aims of the tradition but sceptical about some of the directions in which the tradition was developing. Specifically, Rengger expressed doubt about evolving concepts of just cause, some of which required rather than restrained the use of force. This chapter considers the impact of these criticisms for the problem of international order.
Life or Livelihood? COVID-19 in the UK and the Existential Question of Our Times
Authors: D’Souza Radha
Published: January 2023

COVID-19 presented the UK government with the impossible choice between prioritizing lives or livelihoods. This chapter probes the dilemma, arguing that it is undergirded by the structural disjuncture between economy and society in liberal democracies. The chapter draws attention to parallel developments in economic and social regulation in which labour markets are deregulated and at the same time equality and non-discrimination laws are strengthened and codified. The two parallel processes are paradoxical as the legal regime takes away with one hand what it gives with the other. Consequently, marginalized communities remain marginalized despite equality laws. Paradoxes reveal unresolved theoretical problems that require further study. UK’s post-COVID-19 economic recovery plans fail to address the relationship between labour market deregulation and its impact on marginalized communities.