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  • 11 Oct 2021
    Image of litter on beach
    Sean Whittaker

    Up **** Creek: The Discharge of Raw Sewage in England’s Rivers

    With a large number of Britons “staycationing” in the UK due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, there is a greater emphasis on the recreational value of England’s rivers. From canoeing to fishing, as well as walking along the riverbank, many forms of leisure activity rely on England’s rivers being clean and free from commercial and […]

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  • 11 Oct 2021
    Robtel Neajai Pailey

    Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa

    Whose work, in your field, has inspired you most? Though much of my scholarship is historically grounded, I was not trained as a historian. I admire historians who can put archival texts into conversation with one another, while reading against the grain, especially of the colonial archive. The late Liberian historian Clarence E Zamba Liberty […]

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  • 8 Oct 2021
    R. Saravanan

    The Physics of Climate Prediction

    Syukuro Manabe explains how mountains affect the Earth’s climate (1972 photo, courtesy of NOAA/GFDL)

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  • 8 Oct 2021
    David Bates, Julie Barrau

    Medieval Lives, Identities and Histories A Book in Honour of Elisabeth van Houts

    This book originated in a conversation over coffee between the two editors. The result was a decision to ask Cambridge University Press whether they would be willing to publish a book whose theme was inspired by the career and life of Elisabeth van Houts. In assembling the group of scholars who have written these essays, […]

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  • 8 Oct 2021
    Nina Hall

    Climate Activism at Glasgow: Does the rise of digitally distributed activism challenge traditional climate NGOs?

    The climate movement has long been divided over how to campaign, and who to target, in their activism. This is because climate change is a diffuse, and complex problem that involves all levels of governance: city, local, national, regional and international as well as business. Nevertheless, the UNFCCC has traditionally given climate activists a common […]

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  • 8 Oct 2021
    Shiran Victoria Shen

    Local Actions Central to Achieving Carbon-Neutrality Goal in China

    Speaking to the United Nations General Assembly in New York in September 2020, President Xi Jinping declared that China would peak its carbon emissions by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060.  This climate pledge is widely considered the most ambitious of any country to date, especially since China—the world’s largest carbon-emitting nation—is still developing […]

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  • 7 Oct 2021
    Giuseppe Martinico

    How populists in power use constitutional law

    We often tend to conceive populism and constitutionalism as being antithetical but the relationship between them should not be seen in terms of mutual exclusion and perfect opposition. Indeed, it is possible to say that populism frequently relies on concepts and categories belonging to the language of constitutionalism (majority, democracy, people), trying to reshape them […]

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  • 6 Oct 2021
    Julian Caldecott

    Surviving Climate Chaos: Systems resisting chaos

    The complex systems of life, mind and society are rich in information, and have to maintain themselves actively against entropy and chaos or be reduced to uniform ash.

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