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  • Common Sense: Between Democratic Promise and Political Peril

    Thomas Telios considers common sense as a contested and performative concept shaping democratic discourse and political exclusion.

    March 2, 2026
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International Women’s Day: We’ve had our fill of hashtags

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by Dr Helen O’Shea and Prof Kim Barker International Women’s Day: an important day to mark, recognise, and observe women’s…

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Five Influential Psychiatric Films

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by Tim Snelson, William R. Macauley and David A. Kirby In the ‘long 1960s’, psychiatrists and other mental health professionals…

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Writing Dancing and the Stance

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by ‘Funmi Adewole Elliott Over the years I have carried out several research projects as a practitioner, at times with…

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by Elizabeth Castaldo Lundén The Oscars are awards season’s final show and the mothership that paved the way for all…

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EUP 75: Our Publishing in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

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Discover the story of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Edinburgh University Press – the first publications, the books that changed the field and what you can expect to see in future.

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A Conversation on the Nature of Practice in Hip-Hop 

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Creativity, Skill, Integrity, Intelligence and Community

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by Tommy Gustafsson Author Tommy Gustafsson discusses what inspired his research for his new book, Historical Media Memories of the…

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A Celebratory Issue of ‘The New Americanist’

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by Matthew Chambers The text for this blog is taken from the Editor’s Introduction of The New Americanist Vol 2.2.…

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Making art is messy

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by Simon Ellis Making art is messy. Artists make lots of decisions under less-than-ideal conditions without a clear understanding of…

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