Baishali Chatterjee and Amita Pitre are two feminists, deeply engaged in the social sector, working on gender equality. They recently hosted a two-part podcast on ‘Gender and the City’ which has been well received. The authors declare no conflict of interest and have...
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Barbie: International Law, War, and Feminist ‘Utopias’
Zeenat Sabur Between the seriousness and the reality presented by Oppenheimer and the imaginative elegance of Barbie, there is also a space to think about our own reality: who shapes it, and why do we accept it the way it is portrayed to us? As the Barbie movie shows,...
To throw the kitchen sink: How the work of Shelagh Delaney challenges the legacies of post-war social realism
Jennifer Jasmine White Shelagh Delaney is remembered almost exclusively for her ‘gritty’ debut. Why do critics still neglect all the fun she had elsewhere? Delaney’s screenwriting credits allow us to consider what else she might have had to offer the post-war cultural...
Interview series ‘life after the PhD’: Alex Hartland
'Life after the PhD' is a series of interviews conducted with former University of Manchester postgraduate students, discussing the multiple paths available for students once they finish their doctoral research. In this issue, we present a summary of a fascinating...
Interview series ‘life after the PhD’: James Griffiths
Authors: Charlotte Weatherill & Political Perspectives Editing Team This interview is the second in a series that Political Perspectives are running on the subject of life after the PhD. This conversation is between University of Manchester’s Charlotte Weatherhill...
The labour struggle of early career researchers – comparing the situation in the UK and Germany
Author: Dennis Pirdzuns Students and early career researchers organise for labour struggle in growing numbers in the United Kingdom and Germany. While the academic sectors in both countries differ in several dimensions, the situation facing academic staff is...
Interview series ‘life after the PhD’: Marion Greziller
Author: Charlotte Weatherill This interview is the first in a series that Political Perspectives are running on the subject of life after the PhD. This conversation is between University of Manchester’s Charlotte Weatherill and Marion Greziller and focuses on Marion’s...
Useful, efficient, vital? Tactical voting in the 2022 French presidential elections
Author: Sarah Ledoux The French electorate voted for Emmanuel Macron (27.85%) and Marine Le Pen (23.15%) in the first round of the 2022 presidential election. One is the incumbent president (Macron), who set a record in French politics by joining the campaign 38 days...
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