Global restructuring and the unevenness of resistance
March 7, 2012
On 27 January 2012, the workshop Globalisations: The Return of History or the End of the Future? was held at the University of Nottingham, UK. This event included scholars from across all three of the University’s campuses in the UK, Ningbo China and Malaysia as well as the participation of international figures such as Professor …
Symbiotic politics: resisting governance/ governing resistance
March 1, 2012
The following post is a collaboration between Dr. Tessa Houghton (School of Modern Languages and Cultures, UNMC) and Dr. Leonie Ansems de Vries (School of Politics, History and International Relations, UNMC), and emerged from the ‘Globalisations: The Return of the Future or the End of History?‘ workshop run by Professor Andreas Bieler (School of Politics …
Struggle against free trade, prospects for transnational solidarity
February 27, 2012
The Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ), the University of Nottingham hosted a two day workshop on ‘Trade Unions, Free Trade and the Problem of Transnational Solidarity’ on the 2nd and 3rd of December 2011. The workshop was timely to debate alternatives to free trade among labour within the context of …
Malaysia and the frontiers of growth
February 10, 2012
This is the second in our series of special blogs about the development and challenges facing the Malaysian economy by Associate Professor Camilla Jensen. Camilla is Director of Studies of the Nottingham School of Economics at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus. Her research covers foreign direct investment, economic growth, regional development and institutional change. …
The cosmos has no camps – on public engagement with science and the role of social scientists
February 7, 2012
When talking with research funders of research administrators about my work on the boundaries of science and society, they quite often ask me why I don’t do ‘a Brian Cox’ (and, much more rarely, a Jim Al-Khalili or a Kathy Sykes or, perhaps in the future, an Alice Roberts, not to mention David Spiegelhalter, Marcus du Sautoy …
Malaysia and the frontiers of growth
January 13, 2012
This is the first in a series of special blogs about the development and challenges facing the Malaysian economy by Associate Professor Camilla Jensen. Camilla is Director of Studies of the Nottingham School of Economics at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus. Her research covers foreign direct investment, economic growth, regional development and institutional change. 2011 was …
Challenging the logic of free trade
January 6, 2012
Challenging the Logic of Free Trade: A Report from the ‘Free Trade, Trade Unions and the Problem of Transnational Solidarity’ Workshop On 2 and 3 December 2011, the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice in partnership with the Integrating Global Society research priority group at the University of Nottingham hosted a two-day workshop on free …
Why we need to recapture ‘marketing’ from the ‘marketisation’ of higher education debate
December 19, 2011
Critics of marketing in higher education (HE) argue that a fundamental and inexorable conflict exists between the intrinsic purposes and values of education and what has been described as an increasing shift towards ‘marketisation’ or ‘corporatisation’ i.e. treating HE as a commodity open to market forces with students as its primary customers. Some have asserted …
Why do we punish financial services firms?
December 8, 2011
It was announced on 5th December 2011 that HSBC Bank was to be fined £10.5 million by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) for unsuitable investment advice provided by its subsidiary NHFA, which resulted in the mis-selling of investment bonds to thousands of elderly and disabled customers. The details of the case have been widely reported, …
Broken Promises? Higher Education and the Global Knowledge Economy
November 17, 2011
Student unrest seems to be a good indicator for a more general world crisis, whether we think back to 1968 or to events of the last year. A recent book by Phil Brown, Hugh Lauder and David Ashton, entitled the Global Auction, suggests that student dissatisfaction is likely to rise, at least in OECD countries, …
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