It is an overcast Friday in mid-October as the Cardiff University contingent (that’s us!) pull up outside a rated-but-dated business hotel in Newport; we are attending the #KeepingItReal conference for teenage girls, run by theContinue reading
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Ester McGeeney on ‘Collisions, Coalitions and Riotous Subjects: The Riots One Year On’
A Conference Report for GEA At the end of last month I started my week with a colleague from Sussex University, a few of our new masters students and a trip to the CLF theatreContinue reading
Abby Hardgrove on ‘Collisions, Coalitions and Riotous Subjects: The Riots One Year On’
A Conference Report for GEA I work as a post-graduate research associate on a research initiative focused on young men’s experiences of unemployment in the UK during a time of austerity: ‘Diaspora geographies and generations:Continue reading
Sarah Burton on ‘Collisions, Coalitions and Riotous Subjects: The Riots One Year On’
A Conference Report for GEA Recently I had the pleasure of attending Collisions, Coalitions and Riotous Subjects:The London Riots one year on. The riots in August 2012 came just as I was preparing to beginContinue reading
Collisions, Coalitions and Riotous Subjects: The Riots One Year On
A Conference Report for GEA Over the past year, academics have brought critical perspectives to bear on the complex causes and consequences of the English riots of 2011. Important questions have been raised about theContinue reading