Having watched the film, I thought I’d get Robert Linhart’s book off the shelf and finally read it. I think I bought it in Oxford in the early 80s. To remind you, it depicts Linhart’s experience as a Maoist cadre who has chosen to get a job in a Citroen factory in Paris in order […]
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The privilege of describing new species is skewed to Global Northerners
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Drastic cuts to science funding and immigration restrictions could hobble the country's research enterprise
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How we behave in the urban wilds has changed
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Some recent books about postcolonial and anti-colonial social science, and my chapters in them:
Connell, Raewyn. 2025. Perspectivas democráticas na educação em Ciências Sociais. Pp. 41-53 in Marcelo Cigales, ed., Ensino de Ciências Sociais em perspectiva internacional. Maceió, Editora Café com Sociologia, 2025.
Connell, Raewyn. 2025. The good university. Pp.107-121 in Sinfree Makoni and Chanel van der Merwe, ed., Decolonial Options in Higher Education: Cracks and Fissures. Bristol and Jackson TN, Multilingual Matters.
Connell, Raewyn. 2025. Curriculum for revolution: Ali Shariati's Practical Plan and the radical politics of knowledge. Pp. 93-109 in Dustin J. Bird and Seyed Javad Miri, ed., Ali Shariati: Critical Social Theory and the Struggle for Decolonization. Kalamazoo MI, Ekpyrosis Press.
…up to the microscope
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What a popular subreddit can tell us about everyday morality
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These are the real reasons birthrates are falling, argue Mathilda Mallinson and Helena Wadia
A comic uses fluid dynamics to explain how groups of people move—and how that could help make large gatherings safer.
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Taking stock of the moment for science and science policy.
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