Category: Learnings

Why White feminist spaces will not simply become ‘intersectional’ because we declare them to be.

Gender, class and online forums, from Jiangxi to Shanghai

There is no imminence to unrest, its origins can be plotted like old genealogy maps. When unrest arrives it bears down in the same way the heaviness of thunderclouds breaks, there is almost a sense of satisfaction when the anticipation finds physical release. The transition of Sri Lanka from colonised to liberated was made with… Continue reading The Anatomy of a Genocide

Are we repeating history? How the current migrant ‘crisis’ is connected to the history of migration in Europe

What can a sincere white person do in the fight against racism?

Over the past few years, interest in mindfulness meditation has exploded in the West: there is now a ‘Mindful Magazine’, the NHS recommends mindfulness as a treatment for depression and anxiety, and courses in mindfulness are popping up all over the country, including here at Oxford University, where much of the rapidly growing body of… Continue reading Mindfulness and Violence

“Wherever the law is, crime can be found.” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, ‘The Gulag Archipelago’ Our society is predicated on the assumption that law, as we experience it, and statistics, as we utilize them, are impartial and objective by design. Yet law in a democratic society is derived from its constitutional regime, analytics only as useful… Continue reading Policing: the Most Dismal Science