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...division of labour women still have a domestic role that men by and large don’t have which constructs the contours of their citizenship and it’s a role that many feminists would argue we should not devalue. We shouldn’t say that the answer is simply to get women into the labour market to be like men, you know and not worry about the issue of care because care in...

...divisive figure: just as he fires up and motivates those who like his ideas, so too does he rile and motivate those who oppose them. Elliott and Cummings could argue that there’s little point in getting your vote out, if you’re also getting the opposition’s vote out too. If enough people are riled into voting to stay in the EU by Farage’s rhetoric, the whole game...

...division reflects the emergence of a new 21st-century politics – one waged between genuine cynics and hopeful nihilists. The former think the system is unchangeable but that small progress is achievable, while the latter still believe in the possibility of real change. They are willing to destroy the system to achieve that change, regardless of the costs. Trump’s...

...divisions dominate internal party politics. This is all unfolding in the run-up to what is likely to be a bloody five-yearly national elective conference in December, at which the ANC will elect a new President of the party to succeed Zuma. That may or may not mark the start of a new era of renewal for the ANC. But Zuma’s term as President of the country is only due to...

...divisions of class, gender, ethnicity, and nationality, and the challenges of changing them when culture creates and reproduces inequalities and hierarchies, have occupied most of my research time in the last two decades. My current interest is to investigate the ways in which artistic engagements in contemporary Brazil narrate the political past of the heavy dictatorship...