A conversation with Dr. Sen Raj (Manchester) about his new book on the role of emotion in political & legal contestations about LGBT+ rights. Drawing from critical socio-legal theory, the book develops the concept of “emotional grammar” to examine how emotions guide efforts to reform anti-discrimination & gender recognition laws, bans on “conversion therapy,” and sex education in the US, UK, and Australia.

The Colombian Civil War was marked by high levels of civilian victimisation, particularly inflicted by government-aligned paramilitaries against perceived guerrilla sympathisers in the name of counterinsurgency. It is in this landscape that the violent victimisation of LGBT populations produces a puzzle.

The tenth anniversary of the EU referendum is fast approaching and many will be focused on how Brexit has, or has not, changed the economic and political world. But what if the most important change was not to institutions, political parties and the economy, but to us? This lecture series explores how the referendum, and its aftermath, sparked a form of ‘tribal politics’ that reshaped how people saw themselves, each other and the wider world.

The tenth anniversary of the EU referendum is fast approaching and many will be focused on how Brexit has, or has not, changed the economic and political world. But what if the most important change was not to institutions, political parties and the economy, but to us? This lecture series explores how the referendum, and its aftermath, sparked a form of ‘tribal politics’ that reshaped how people saw themselves, each other and the wider world.

The tenth anniversary of the EU referendum is fast approaching and many will be focused on how Brexit has, or has not, changed the economic and political world. But what if the most important change was not to institutions, political parties and the economy, but to us? This lecture series explores how the referendum, and its aftermath, sparked a form of ‘tribal politics’ that reshaped how people saw themselves, each other and the wider world.