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The Great Fall: A personal perspective, before and after
Languages

The Great Fall: A personal perspective, before and after

...working order – it wasn’t so much grey uniformity as a refreshing lack of consumer capitalism. Our young daughters were entranced by the double-decker train we boarded to the centre of Berlin. We wandered around and waved to those waving from the Western side. On the way back to the campsite we veered off in the wrong direction from the station and ended up in the...
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Using art and creative methods to interrogate identity, citizenship and migration
Society, Politics & Law

Using art and creative methods to interrogate identity, citizenship and migration

...work on citizenship, migration and the ethics and politics of the refugee crisis might be shared with wider audiences through creative expression. You can reflect on how research, arts, culture, audience participation and education might learn from each other. You will have the opportunity to first explore a number of conversations from OU academics with artists and media...
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The Black History Month Talks: Reclaiming Narratives
Education & Development

The Black History Month Talks: Reclaiming Narratives

...work we all must do to effect lasting social change. Dr Fidele Mutwarasibo Empowering Others to Reclaim the Narrative through Action Research and Bespoke Leadership Development In the post-2020 landscape, equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) work remains a lively and often contested space. Reflecting on G. A. Spivak’s question, ‘Can the subaltern speak?’, Dr...
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Care for the elderly
Money & Business

Care for the elderly

...work. The traditional care home is no longer seen as appropriate in light of these issues. Sonia Sodha addresses these concerns in her article for the Guardian “Underfunded and overstretched – the crisis in care for the elderly”. Yet these problems also present fresh possibilities for modernising and improving elderly care. The convention choice between spending the...
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Making Social Worlds
Society, Politics & Law

Making Social Worlds

...work The rules of working in South Africa and the role of the passbook. Fear of forgetting Being caught without a passbook meant humiliation. Green IDs and liquor quotas Passbooks during prohibition. British citizenship ceremony A British citizenship ceremony hosted by Brent Council in London. The waiting game Passbook restrictions: one man's story. Why ceremony? David...
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World in transition: Migration and Trade
Nature & Environment

World in transition: Migration and Trade

...working to expand the contribution that African migrants abroad can make to Africa’s development. Finally, a Chinese “beer pioneer” and China trade experts discuss issues surrounding China’s membership of the World Trade Organisation.In the bonus material Dr Helen Yanacopulos, Senior Lecturer in International Politics and Development at The Open University,...
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How did music influence Virgina Woolf?
History & The Arts

How did music influence Virgina Woolf?

...work. Emma Sutton uses Woolf's story A Simple Melody to explain...[Virginia Woolf in 1902] Virginia Woolf As Virginia Woolf’s letters and diaries amply record, music was a central part of her social life as it was for many of her contemporaries and she was at her best as a humorist writing about these occasions. She records with glee the various mishaps that befall...
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Creating a different world: Celebrating Ursula K LeGuin
History & The Arts

Creating a different world: Celebrating Ursula K LeGuin

...work of the sci-fi author Ursula K LeGuin, who died earlier this week...[Ursula K Le Guin] Hermaphrodite beings, dragon women, ambivalent utopias and sympathetic magic. Just a tiny taste of the fantasy and science fiction worlds created by Ursula K Le Guin, who has died at the ripe age of 88. Le Guin challenged everything that came before and opened up new ways of doing...
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