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The White Australia Policy

In the past, anti-immigration sentiment was often enshrined in government policy as a form of institutional racism. In the late nineteenth century, concern was growing in the Australian colonies about...

Karen Stollznow | 12 Aug 2021

Synchronized ion plasmon waves is a new view on neuron signaling

Though the book “Quantum Nano-Plasmonics” concerns a random-phase approximation model of plasmons in metallic nanoparticles, it finds unexpected application to soft plasmonics in bio matter. A wave...

Witold A. Jacak | 12 Aug 2021

Expressing identities: what the UEFA rainbow quarrel tells us about the protection of gay lives

One of the many controversies surrounding the Euro football championship was sparked by Uefa’s decision to quash the plans of the city of Munich to illuminate its Allianz Arena in rainbow colours in...

Janna Wessels | 11 Aug 2021

The Misreading of Mid-Century Turkey

How complicit is the field of Middle East studies in helping Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan consolidate his authoritarian rule? It’s a completely unfair question, of course. But, having lobbed...

Nicholas Danforth | 11 Aug 2021

The Right to Life of Planet Earth?

In recent years, there has been increasing movement towards envisaging the right to life not only in terms of human beings, but in terms of other mammals. In Argentina, in 2014, a Federal Chamber of Criminal...

Stuart Casey-Maslen | 9 Aug 2021

Reducing the Complexity of Financial Services Regulation

It used to be relatively easy to regulate financial services. This was because the range of entities providing financial services was relatively narrow, as was the range of financial services provided...

Andrew Schmulow, Andrew Godwin | 6 Aug 2021

The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare

In every bookshop in the English-speaking world, works on military history occupy at least half of the shelves devoted to ‘History’. I helped to create two of the titles on those shelves, as editor...

Geoffrey Parker | 3 Aug 2021

How to Read an EEG

“Do epileptologists just make things up?” remarked one of my trainees after seeing me read an EEG, obviously completely exasperated looking at a screen full of squiggly lines! EEGs are indeed daunting...

Neville M. Jadeja | 2 Aug 2021

Rapid changes in earth’s vital signs draws attention to the importance of changing senses of place

Unprecedented surges in climate-related disasters coupled with rapid biodiversity loss, technological transformations and contestation associated with mobility and migration and post-national territorial...

Christopher Raymond | 30 Jul 2021

Shari‘a, Inshallah

Muslims around the world have recently celebrated Eid al-Adha, one of the holiest times of the year. The holiday commemorates the Prophet Abraham’s calling to surrender his beloved son to God (who provided...

Mark Fathi Massoud | 30 Jul 2021

Pulling it all together: Elizabeth Bishop in Context

In May 1975 Elizabeth Bishop replied to a letter from a complete stranger called Miss Pierson asking her a series of questions about how both to write and understand poetry. Bishop kept up a lifelong...

Jonathan Ellis, Angus Cleghorn | 30 Jul 2021

Climate Change and Security: Whose Security?

Climate Change: The Heat is On In the lead up to CoP26 talks in Glasgow in November 2021, we’ve seen plenty of international attention on climate change. This attention is influenced by a few different...

Matt McDonald | 30 Jul 2021