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Martin Luther King as an international thinker?
Monday 17 January marked the official US holiday honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. While watching Monday’s Democracy Now! program, featuring substantive excerpts from King’s speeches, the clarity with...
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Whitewashing History
The Morning Post, 1913 – on the violence of the suffragette movement: Early yesterday morning some women succeeded in burning a valuable house near Trowbridge. In the night of Monday to Tuesday...
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What We Talked About At ISA 2012: How Music Brings Meaning to Politics
At this year’s ISA conference, I presented on the panel ‘The Social Technologies of Protest’, with George Lawson, Eric Selbin, Robbie Shilliam and our discussant Patrick Jackson. The full text of the...
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Cavity Searches in Intern(ation)al Relations
In the most darkly comic scene in Mohammed Hanif’s brilliant A Case of Exploding Mangoes, General Zia—the thinly mustachioed dictator of Pakistan from 1977-88—suffering from a bad case of worms,...
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On Statues (II)
This is the second in an unplanned series of write-as-stuff-happens posts on the politics of statues. You can read the first post here. In June 2016, the Indian President Pranab Mukherjee unveiled a...
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