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Environmental management and organisations
Nature & Environment

Environmental management and organisations

...economic, or social order, especially regarded as oppressive; the Establishment; any impersonal, restrictive organisation, with reference to business and social organisations and the operations or interactions they involve. OED (2013) These relate to systems that we can look at and see. But the word ‘system’ is more flexible. Here are some more ideas from the Oxford...
Early modern Europe: an introduction
History & The Arts

Early modern Europe: an introduction

...economics and politics. But what about the period itself: what aspects of life and events characterise the time between 1500 and 1780? Activity 2 What do you know about early modern Europe? Timing: This should take around 5–10 minutes Take a few minutes to jot down anything you know about the period 1500–1780: any events that happened or people who lived between these...
Superqueeroes: Gender and superheroes
History & The Arts

Superqueeroes: Gender and superheroes

...economic power, access to resource, and sexuality. They do little to challenge a gender ideology that is based on a simple binary classification model which comes with quite fixed ideas about how to understand sex and gender. This binary model suggests that all people can be classified into one of two sex categories: male or female. These sex categories are identified as...
Smart Cities in the Making: Learning from Milton Keynes
Society, Politics & Law

Smart Cities in the Making: Learning from Milton Keynes

...Economic and Social Research Council, as well as the Open University. And in this podcast, what I'd like to do is tell you a little bit about what we're going to be looking at, why we think it's important, and why we think different people will benefit from the research findings that we're going to be coming up with. But before I go any further, let me introduce the whole...
Three weeks in June and one night in November
Society, Politics & Law

Three weeks in June and one night in November

...economic. Leaving the EU will require that the UK borrow an extra £58 billion over the next five years. This is on top of falling tax revenues that could cost the government £66 billion. Under these circumstances, the continued funding of many public services, including the NHS, becomes unsustainable. The election of Trump will inflict parallel damages on healthcare in...
Europe’s Borders in Question
Society, Politics & Law

Europe’s Borders in Question

...economic geographer and I’m interested in borders because of what flows across them – people, money, goods – and what doesn’t flow across them. Now when the fences and walls started to go up on the inside of Europe, not on the edges of Europe, I got interested. Now, borders are supposed to be at the edges of sovereign territory, a place where access and entry is...
Hearing Race: Can language use lead to racism?
Languages

Hearing Race: Can language use lead to racism?

...economic inequalities within society. Further controversies around language and race [President Barack Obama] Obama legitimised AAE as a form of communication African American English (AAE) is an ethnolect spoken primarily by African American people within America. An ethnolect can be generally defined as a language variety that marks speakers as members of ethnic groups...
QATAR 2022 must impart a positive coaching legacy for Africa and the Caribbean member associations
Health, Sports & Psychology

QATAR 2022 must impart a positive coaching legacy for Africa and the Caribbean member associations

...economics. Nevertheless, it would require (i) an effective pipeline that breeds successful homegrown coaches and (ii) effective investment (financial and collective responsibility) from FIFA to support CAF and CONCAF in coaching development. Effective pipeline that breeds successful homegrown coaches[africa's teams and their head coaches] Before I delve into what I think...