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Yearly Archives: 2026

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  • 15 Oct 2026
    James Watt

    ‘[L]ight summer reading’?: Goldsmith’s The Citizen of the World

    On the publication of Oliver Goldsmith’s The Citizen of the World in 1762, the British Magazine described it as ‘Light, agreeable summer reading, partly original, partly borrowed’. In his Lectures on the English Comic Writers (1819), just over fifty years later, by contrast, William Hazlitt rather differently claimed that ‘For light summer reading, it is […]

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  • 14 Oct 2026
    Annika Frosch

    Staying Out of My Lane: Navigating the Souring Seas of Science, Law and Policy

    Both climate change and the ocean have always been topics I felt drawn to. Both felt scientific, urgent, and practical, and they somehow involved the outdoors, which, for me, as a lawyer working inside all day, sounded very tempting. When it came to writing my Master’s thesis, I just couldn’t decide which topic to explore. […]

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  • 14 Oct 2026
    Ruth Kinna, Alex Prichard

    Hands up who thinks anarchism is a constitutional theory?

    Our guess is that most people’s arms are still bolted tightly to their sides. If so, this book is for you. Constitutionalising Anarchy blows a hole in the conventional claim made by legal and political theorists that political constitutions are the exclusive reserve of states. Exhuming the body of nineteenth century anarchism to outline a […]

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  • 14 Oct 2026
    Klaus Brummer, Šumit Ganguly

    Transnational Repression. A Comparative Perspective Across Autocracies and Democracies

    Transnational repression, understood as the extraterritorial repressive actions by states against members of their national community abroad, has become a global phenomenon. One commentator even suggested that “This is the golden age of transnational repression. More states now have more tools to target more exiles and diaspora communities in more countries for fewer resources than […]

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  • 14 Oct 2026
    Rahsaan Maxwell

    Beyond the Cosmopolitan Elite: The Hidden Depth of Pro-Immigration Support in Europe

    Every day there is a media story about public opposition to immigration fueling the populist far-right in Europe.  Academic public opinion research has a similar slant, with endless studies about why people oppose immigration.  This could lead one to believe that Europeans all hate immigration.  Especially as there is very little attention to support for […]

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  • 14 Oct 2026
    Takaaki Hiratsuka

    “I Am Now a Little Bit Proud of My Japanese Accent”: Trans-Speakerism in Action

    In the summer of 1999, I was studying English at a language center in Canada, one voice among hundreds of accents crowding the poster-lined hallways. A teacher there, Mr. Wilson, was not someone I had ever taken a class with, but he had a habit of stopping students in the hallway to correct them. One […]

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  • 14 Oct 2026
    Line Lerche Mørck, Jean Lave, Dorte Kousholt, Ana Maria R. Gomes, Marina V. França

    What can we learn from learning together across differences?

    In 2015, a group of Danish and Brazilian researchers gathered in Belo Horizonte for what we jokingly called The First International Workshop on Learning in Practice. We chose that title with a certain sense of irony. Organising an international workshop across continents, languages, academic traditions, and institutional settings seemed ambitious enough. None of us dared […]

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  • 3 Sep 2026
    Martin Fotta, Ann Ostendorf

    Why isn’t Romani History Part of the Atlantic World?

    When Maria de la Concepción boarded the ship out of Lisbon bound for Brazil, she never could have anticipated her eventual challenges. After providing an enslaved woman in Mexico with a love potion, Concepción was brought before the inquisition on sorcery charges in 1668. Two hundred and fifty years later, the extended Estevanovich family faced […]

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