Staff at 74 British universities are currently on strike, their third major round of industrial action since 2018. Often cited in discussions of changes to universities since the early 1980s are market pressure. Yet, by invoking market pressures, we too often take the responsibility away from the managers who make decisions. It's not markets, it is the managers who fuel this crisis.
In these videos Bram Büscher looks at the radical revolution needed within conservation, proposing a post-capitalist approach that incorporates decolonisation, and goes beyond individual responsibility.
The question for conservation is no longer whether we want or need radical change. It is already happening. The question is how we understand the pressures and help direct imminent radical change towards something positive. This is the crossroads facing the conservation community today.
In this edition: Susan Watkins on the UK election, R. Taggart Murphy on Japan, and more.
What are the roots of the current crisis of democracy? How should we understand the simultaneity of contemporary revolts? Fifteen years after the publication of his book Hatred of Democracy, Jacques Rancière returns to its themes.
Andrew Weatherall (1963-2020), DJ, radio host and cultural catalyst died on 17th February 2020 at the age of 56. His prolific career and huge influence changed the British musical landscape. Jessica Thorne and Seth Wheeler pay tribute to this visionary artist, and chart his formation in the radical milieu of Windsor.
Len McCluskey joins Alex Doherty to talk about his new Verso book, Why You Should Be A Trade Unionist, on this episode of the Politics Theory Other podcast.
This week we're thinking about love, desire and relationships, at the intersection of capitalism, the state, and heteronormativity. And, Love Island.
Good sex shouldn't depend on faultless self-knowledge. Katherine Angel puts forward the case for desire's emergent and contextual nature.
Marie Edwards' powerful feminist manifesto from 1974.
Moving with trends across the economy, people increasingly purchase their clothes online. But what has this done to labour in the fashion industry? Here, Angela McRobbie writes on the new political economy of fashion, and the degradation of labour in this traditionally feminised sector.
From Charlotte Brontë to Carrie Bradshaw, via Betty Friedan: Leslie Kern on how urban architecture has expanded and constrained women's freedom to live independently and without men.