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Jenny Edkins
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Looking awry at global and local politics. Trauma | Memory | Missing Persons | Disappearance | Hunger | Disasters. Poetry and story-telling as method. Grenfell 💚
Prof @ Manchester & Aberystwyth. Tanguera, yogini.
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Worth listening to: Chris Naylor on the alternative to privatised asylum accommodation, which now produces huge profits and concentrates asylum seekers in impoverished areas. The proposal would enable local councils to increase their general housing stock, as well as taking account of local needs.
I spoke on Radio 4 Today this morning and then later to Sky News about reform of asylum accommodation (this is pro-bono work that Inner Circle Consulting is doing with Refugee Council the IPPR and others.) I talked about * the importance of Government ending the contracts with Serco, Mears and Clearsprings; * devolving responsibility and funding to regions and local authorities to source accommodation (within parameters); * using public sector funding to build a portfolio of publicly owed homes (Council and Housing Association) that can be used to house asylum seekers, homelessness families and other vulnerable cohorts and then be an asset and a public good in perpetuity. Listen on BBC Sounds - the piece starts at 6.43am and I'm on at 6.48am or Sky News at 12.30pm
August 27, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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“You can’t starve anyone by accident, you can shoot someone by accident but … in inflicting starvation [you] have 60 or 80 days in which [you] can remedy the error” Alex de Waal www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
“You can approach starvation as a biological phenomenon experienced by individuals, but it is also a collective social experience,” said Alex de Waal, executive director of the World Peace Foundation at Tufts University, and author of Mass Starvation: the History and Future of Famine. “Very often that societal element – the trauma, the shame, the loss of dignity, the violation of taboos, the breaking of social bonds – is more significant in the memory of the experience of survivors than the individual biological experience.” “All these traumas are the reason why the Irish took almost 150 years before they could memorialise what they experienced in the 1840s. Those who inflict starvation are aware of this, they know that what they’re doing is actually dismantling a society.”
July 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Grenfell Uncovered www.netflix.com/watch/81683138
June 21, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Planet presents an evening at Y Cŵps! A warm welcome to all.
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January 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Here they are: advance copies!!
Advance copies of Global Politics: A New Introduction as delivered in a cardboard box
January 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Coming in January: the fourth edition of Global Politics: A New Introduction. An innovative textbook that engages directly with questions that those coming to the study of world politics bring with them. Massive thanks to all 24 wonderful contributors!!! www.routledge.com/Global-Polit...
The book cover shows a protestor wearing a white mask on which are drawn red tears and a question mark
November 21, 2024 at 3:08 PM