by Andy Merrifield* I’ve been revisiting the great maverick radical Ivan Illich, who died in 2002, aged 76. Illich was an Austrian who had no real homeland, a Jew who became a Catholic, a Priest...
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Intervention – "Vernacular Values: Remembering Ivan Illich" by Andy Merrifield
Virtual issue – Class, Politics, and Representation
On Wednesday 27th August, Queen Mary University of London's Gareth Stedman Jones and Jane Wills will discuss their work on class, politics and representation in London from the 19th to 21st century,...
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Video abstract – Jordanna Matlon talks about 'Narratives of Modernity, Masculinity, and Citizenship Amid Crisis in Abidjan's Sorbonne'
In this video Jordanna Matlon (Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse) discusses her article, forthcoming in Antipode 46:3, ‘Narratives of Modernity, Masculinity, and Citizenship amid Crisis in...
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Welfare Reform and the Production of Ignorance
Welfare benefits in the UK have in recent years risen faster than wages. So the coalition government introduced the Welfare Benefits Uprating Bill - which passed comfortably in the Commons earlier...
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