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‘A Place in the Homeland? Turkish-German Return Migration’: Q&A with the authors
Read more: ‘A Place in the Homeland? Turkish-German Return Migration’: Q&A with the authorsNilay Kılınç and Russell King discuss the making of their book on second-generation Turkish-German return migration
Deleuze – An Extract from The Badiou Dictionary

Gilles Deleuze (1925–95) is the contemporary philosopher to whom Badiou returns more than any other. His engagement with Deleuze is however neither homogeneous nor unequivocally critical, as it is often thought to be. In short, Deleuze figures in Badiou’s work as his preeminent philosophical disputant.
Dai Vaughan, John Berger, and disciplinary boundaries

Three years ago, Richard Macdonald and I compared Dai Vaughan (1933-2012) with two other ‘outstanding figures of his generation’, Robin…
‘Nobody Needs French Theory’ – an extract from Jean Baudrillard: From Hyperreality to Disappearance

Jean Baudrillard on Muslims in France, the simulation of freedom in America, the demise of the intellectual and why French theory is like the Statue of Liberty.
Neo-Victorian Masculinities
There is a shortage of men in neo-Victorianism. Or that, at least, is how it would appear to look at…
Bogus criticisms and animal becomings

By Ashley Woodward Peter Shaffer’s play Equus is perhaps best known to some today as ‘the one in which Harry…
Huffing and Puffing but getting there: the ups and downs of historical research

By William Knox Violence is an area much neglected by Scottish historians unlike those working in other countries, such as…
Apropos Written and yet to be Written Histories of Ancient Palestine and Israel

By Michael Nathanson The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, i.e., impasse over land ownership of the former mandatory Palestine, is rooted in and…
The Post-Mortem of Labour Scotland

Three years ago, Gerry Hassan and I published a book entitled ‘The Strange Death of Labour Scotland’. We envisaged that,…
Letters from Beyond: Sir Politic Would-Be Emails the author
Dear Bob, ‘Tis I, Would-Be, unicorn with panther’s breath. Are you aware, Bob, that Black Panthers are generally the melanistic…