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Mashing up the Union Jack
Society, Politics & Law

Mashing up the Union Jack

...out symbols that define our identities, home and belonging, I come to think, as Paul Gilroy did, that the assimilation of transnational diasporas and migrants is not a process of acculturation, but of cultural syncretism. So how can national symbols, such as flags, represent Britain’s cultural syncretism? Can we mash up or remix different heritages in a national flag to...
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Sex workers’ labour struggles in Scotland
Society, Politics & Law

Sex workers’ labour struggles in Scotland

...out about The Open University's Social Sciences courses Background There is no figure so mystified as the sex worker. She is either a whore who must be punished, a fallen woman (and it is always believed to be just women who are sex workers) who must be saved, or a public health hazard who must be stopped to save society from her immorality and disease. However, for...
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The weakness of European Wales
Society, Politics & Law

The weakness of European Wales

...out. This demolished the received wisdom aligning Euro-scepticism with the political Right since Wales as a whole has tended to lean Left since the early twentieth century. The result also surprised commentators because Wales has been the beneficiary of so much EU funding. To some, it looked like the turkeys had voted for Christmas. That, of course, is a gross...
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How I wrote Frankenstein
History & The Arts

How I wrote Frankenstein

...out of void, but out of chaos; the materials must, in the first place, be afforded: it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself. In all matters of discovery and invention, even of those that appertain to the imagination, we are continually reminded of the story of Columbus and his egg. Invention consists in the capacity...
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Hip Hop, Transculturation and Ethnography in Delhi
Education & Development

Hip Hop, Transculturation and Ethnography in Delhi

...out more about The Open University's Language courses and qualifications. Hip Hop Hip hop is a Black radical knowledge movement that emerged in post-industrial urban North America in the 1970s and that has now become a global phenomenon and source of cultural inspiration for marginalised youth from around the world. The term ‘hip hop’ was coined in the late 1970s,...
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The struggle to save the seabirds after the Torrey Canyon disaster
Nature & Environment

The struggle to save the seabirds after the Torrey Canyon disaster

...out in a few years if pollution continues at the same rate. The numbers of auks in the southern parts of the British Isles have markedly declined during the last 20-30 years (Boyd 1956, Parslow 1967) and oiling was already thought of as an important factor before the Torrey Canyon disaster killed an estimated 30,000 birds, nearly all auks, off England and France (Bourne...
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Reading communities: why, what and how?
Education & Development

Reading communities: why, what and how?

...out, as well as cushions, carpets and sofas to enrich classroom reading areas. These often-colourful spaces overtly indicate to parents, governors, Ofsted inspectors and the children that the school values reading. But is this institutional demonstration of community enough? In other ways too, with the best of intentions, schools can be sucked into performing reading for...
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How does the human body fight a viral infection?
Science, Maths & Technology

How does the human body fight a viral infection?

...out more about The Open University's Health Sciences qualification. The immune response to viral infection The immune response to a viral infection is primarily generated by a type of white blood cell called lymphocytes; cells that are mostly localised in ‘lymphoid tissues’ such as the lymph nodes or tonsils. However, the number of lymphocytes that can recognise and...
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