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Published in: HomeIntervention - imperialism or human rights?Are we caught between support for liberal intervention which often has disastrous, unintended, but often foreseeable...
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Published in: Home'New managerialism' in education: the organisational form of neoliberalism
The ethos of 'new managerialism' is stripping public services of moral and ethical values and replacing them with...
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Published in: HomeLiberalism, the media and the NHS
Standing at some ill-defined midpoint between three neoliberal parties is now deemed, by the BBC and others, to...
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Published in: HomeReshuffling education policy: the new vocationalism
A liberal approach in neo-liberal times means learning about work and not just learning to work. Westminster remains...
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Published in: HomeWhen ‘liberals’ fail to defend academic freedom
The dismissal of Professor Steven Salaita is a wake up call as to the limits imposed on "diverse" debate within our...
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Published in: HomeThe European Court of Human Rights: would Marx have endorsed it?
The ECHR still struggles to reconcile effective rights with the deep structures of a market economy.
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Published in: HomeWho is the human in human rights?Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Human rights discourse relies on an abstracted human who is...
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Published in: HomeHuman rights and its inherent liberal relativism
Liberal relativism that celebrates civil and political rights is a neo-colonial construct which should be understood...
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Published in: HomeSexual subalterns, human rights and the limits of the liberal imaginary
From within the liberal imaginary, human rights appear to be something that ‘we cannot not want’, even though they...
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Published in: HomePatrimonial capitalism and the end of the liberal university
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Published in: Home‘Liberal’ reform and normativity in media analysis
Media reform in the neoliberal context may involve a fundamental re-evaluation and re-imagining of many of the...
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Published in: HomeLiberal legacies and media reform after neoliberalism
Liberalism cannot secure the media pluralism it wishes. To address the failures of both liberal and neoliberal...
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Published in: HomeRights. What are they good for?
The rights-bearing individual emancipated us from feudal absolutism in Europe. But that historical moment has passed...
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Published in: HomeRights and power: illiberal constitutions of Latin America
Latin American constitutions are exemplary in going beyond liberalism in the way they formulate human rights. But...
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Published in: HomeFull monty journalism - Assange, Greenwald and Snowden
Liberal journalism has always depended on leaks. But changes in technology combined with recent events have opened...
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Published in: HomeLiberalism and the media
I have looked at the glass of liberalism and seen it as half-full. If we are ever going to change our societies for...
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Published in: HomeThe modalities of media liberalism
What are the values proper to journalism, and how these might best be protected, encouraged and enhanced. Is the...
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Published in: HomeHuman rights and the paradoxes of liberalism
Human rights are a hybrid of liberal law, morality and politics. Their ideological power lies in their ambiguity,...
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Published in: HomeHuman rights: from universalism to pragmatism
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Published in: openDemocracyUKNew series: Liberalism in Neoliberal times - dimensions, contradictions, limitsToday we launch a new series, curated by Goldsmiths in partnership with OurKingdom, on liberalism in neoliberal...
