Libya’s Transition to Independence: Challenging the Paradigm of Competition between Italians and Tripolitanians
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The British Gunpowder Industry and the Making of the Global Firearm Frontier, 1600-1900
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Rising power, precarious citizens: Mobility and democracy in India after 1989
On March 25, 2020, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi imposed the world’s largest lockdown in a bid to stem the threat of COVID 19. The stringent lockdown triggered a mass exodus from cities across India, with panic-stricken people desperately trying to leave for their homes in villages, walking over hundreds if not thousands of kilometres. Who were these men, women and children streaming out of India’s cities? Why did they feel compelled to leave the economic engines of among the world’s fastest growing economies and return to their rural homes?
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Writing a Global History of the End of Britain (Oxford Centre for Global History 2nd Anthony Gwilliam Annual Lecture)
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Refreshments will be available in the Common Room from 15:30 and all are welcome
Refreshments will be available in the Common Room from 15:30 and all are welcome
Jacob Keesing Ostfeld
I am interested in why social class matters for political theory. What different classes exist, what relations exist between them, and why might it matter? I am currently writing a thesis entitled "Do Laboring Classes Exploit Each Other?," which seeks to elaborate potentially exploitative and dominating relations among workers. Prior to studying at Oxford, I received my BA from Harvard University in Government in 2023.
Edward Knudsen
Edward Knudsen is a doctoral researcher in international relations at the University of Oxford and an Affiliate Policy Fellow in European political economy at the Jacques Delors Centre in Berlin. His research focuses on the political economy and economic history of the US and Europe in the 20th century, specifically how the historical memory of economic events is constructed and deployed. Previously, he worked in the US and the Americas Programme at Chatham House think tank in London on projects which explored the future of transatlantic economic and security relations.
Combined WRRS & MENA Politics seminar - Women and electoral politics in Iran and Turkey: Undemocratic structures and feminist resistance
Advocates of women's rights have long demanded women’s greater access to political office, especially the national parliament, with hopes to influence policy making with feminist agendas. However, feminist activists’ focus on electoral politics has been mixed in autocratic and patriarchal contexts. While some research pointed to the role of critical actors in policy making who act as feminist insiders, others warned about the futility of such intentions in undemocratic contexts. Comparing Iran and Turkey in recent decades, Dr.
Post-Imperial Possibilities: Eurasia, Eurafrica, Afroasia
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The No State Solution: A Jewish Manifesto
Today there are two seemingly mutually exclusive notions of what “the Jews” are: either a religion or a nation/ethnicity. The widespread conception is that the Jews were formerly either a religious community in exile or a nation based on Jewish ethnicity. The latter position is commonly known as Zionism, and all articulations of a political theory of Zionism are taken to be variations of that view.