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18 March 2024 Authoritarian Practices Go Well Beyond Authoritarian Regimes The latest People, Power, Politics episode features a conversation between Prof Marlies Glasius and CEDAR’s Licia Cianetti about authoritarian practices
14 February 2024 How to Stage a Coup and Ten Other Lessons from the World of Secret Statecraft In this latest People, Power, Politics podcast, Prof Rory Cormac talks about the fascinating world of secret statecraft and its implications for democracy.
07 February 2024 Refused asylum seekers being denied representation in legal aid ‘Armageddon’ Dr Seb Rumsby documents firsthand experiences of the catastrophic drop in legal aid funding, which is undermining people’s wellbeing and right to a fair trial.
01 February 2024 Employment flex appeal: how to bend without breaking Dr Daniel Wheatley explores the ‘flexibility ripple effect’ and the critical role of good line management in a flexible future of work.
How Diversity Became White: Paradoxes of Europeanizing Antiracism and Non-discrimination (CRRE Seminar) 20Mar
Fantasies and Situated Knowledges. The "Child" and the "Mother" in Debates about the Swiss Kindergarten (DOMUS Seminar) 13May