Dr Laura Piacentini is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Strathclyde Law School, University of Strathclyde. Her work focuses on how Russian prisons have adapted to the collapse of the Soviet Union. Her first book, Surviving Russian Prisons (2004) won the British Society of Criminology Book of the Year award in 2005.
openAwakening in conjunction with the University of East London is organizing a three-part event series on ‘The Tahrir Square Meme’ to be held at UEL's Dockland Campus.
Our first event is Rap and the Arab Spring.
The Long and the Quick of revolution Anthony Barnett
We live in revolutionary times... but what does this mean? Anthony Barnett
The precariat: why it needs deliberative democracy Guy Standing
The Long Revolution Raymond Williams
Jim Gabour Sunday Comics
James Warner Standing Perpendicular, as books do
Markha Valenta Inter Alia: religion, politics, culture
Paul Rogers on Global security
Li Datong on China from the inside
Mary Kaldor on Human security
Daniele Archibugi on Cosmopolitan democracy
