The Conversation

Former ISRF Fellow Paul Dobraszczyk looks at forms of architecture that are suited for habitation by both human and non-human animals.

ISRF Fellow Stephen Legg takes a closer look at the historical geographies of the Round Table Conference, which took place in London between 1930 and 1932.

Britain’s historical licensing of plays by Black theatre-makers has inadvertently produced an extensive historical archive of surveillance and censorship.

Hockney’s 20 Flowers and Some Bigger Pictures depict joy in the humdrum of domesticity.

What happened to the predicted red wave in the US midterms?

Analysis shows 21 out of 30 countries on the UK government’s list of repressive regimes received UK military equipment.

There’s still time to avert the worst of climate change. 

Are betting markets better at predicting election results than opinion polls?

Mike Makin-Waite reflects on how civic mediation practices may help to de-escalate protest scenarios.

Perhaps the best way to understand the reasons why people embark on these journeys is to put yourself in their shoes.

What we can learn from squatters, climate protestors and desert hippies.

Military lawyers told me how they must make split-second decisions that weigh military variables against real human lives.

Colonial police organisations used similar arguments to uphold their power as were heard in the trial of George Floyd’s murderer.

A missing girl, a sensational trial, and the troubled history of anti-trafficking.

The children argue failure to tackle climate change constitutes youth discrimination.

How will we record the pandemic and its effectson our lives? How will we look back at the significance of the present in the future?

Dead cities are enduring images in post-apocalyptic literature and cinema.

Is a second wave of coronavirus the price of freedom?

Converting Istanbul’s Byzantine churches implies a hierarchy prioritising the city’s Islamic past over all other periods.

Fighting populism requires us to recognise its embeddedness in business elites. Viktor Orbán’s regime is a case in point.

The ongoing refugee and migrant crisis in the Aegean has taken a dramatic turn in recent days with an escalating humanitarian situation on the land and sea borders between Greece and Turkey.

Scores of jobs could be affected by the fourth industrial revolution – and not enough is being done to guard against this.

Those who are leaving the platform represent a small, but by no means insignificant, counter current to the norm.

Wars don’t produce winners and losers – they never really did.

In economics classes, relentless growth is an unquestioned dogma. Yet this same economic growth is rapidly ripping apart the ecological foundations of our world.

In a society where the past looms large, particularly around the issue of violent displacement, presenting an image of ‘sanctuary’ for those fleeing war is disingenuous.

Students need to be taught about colonialism’s dark past.

When you look carefully, the history of Bitcoin can be traced through five key narratives.

West London music group 1011 have been banned from making music without police permission.

There’s a disturbing disconnect between the polite etiquette of arms fairs and the hell that their products create.

Multiple reports have convincingly demonstrated that agroecology is the most promising pathway to sustainable food systems on all continents. But governments aren’t doing enough to support it.

There is something disconcerting about the Western move to denounce the human rights records of post-colonial states.

We need to imagine new types of borders in this era of fervent fence building.