British human rights organisations and Soviet dissent, 1965-1985
United Kingdom
The sexual politics of asylum : lived experiences of sexual minority asylum seekers and refugees in the UK
The thesis explores lived experiences of sexual minority asylum seekers and refugees in the UK and the analysis emerges from a two-year long ethnography with 60 people. I chose to focus on sexuality in the context of asylum in order to trace parallelisms and differences amongst the conditions of subalternity to which non-heteronormative subjects ca...
British human rights organisations and Soviet dissent, 1965-1985
This thesis develops the literature on the role of human rights in the Cold War by highlighting the impact of British human rights organisations in the response to Soviet dissent. It argues that human rights groups played an essential role in compiling and distributing information on Soviet dissenters to all levels of British society. These groups ...
The sexual politics of asylum : lived experiences of sexual minority asylum seekers and refugees in the UK
United Kingdom
S.C.L.C. Operation Breadbasket, from economic civil rights to black economic power
Operation Breadbasket was a Southern Christian Leadership Conference project that was founded in 1962, and was dedicated to improving the economic conditions of black communities across the United States. This thesis shows how the economic agenda of the early Operation Breadbasket - to facilitate integration in the workplace - gave way to its later...
Anglo-Dutch relations : a political and diplomatic analysis of the years 1625-1642
United Kingdom
The rise of China and the liberal international order : how is the rise of China challenging the practices and ideology ...
This thesis explores the challenge that the rise of an illiberal state - China - presents to the current liberal international order. The existing literature on rising powers would lead to expectations that China will either challenge or seek to maintain the international regimes, practices and institutions that comprise the current international o...
Citizen forecasting in the 2010 British General Election
United Kingdom
"Many Columbias" : remembering the New Left
United Kingdom
A new collective politics? : the potential and constraints of local participation and the concept of social capital
This thesis explores the ambivalent nature of local participation, and of community as a form of political subject. In particular, it explores the way that participation is discursively framed by the theoretical concept of social capital, explored here as part of the discourse of the Third Way, legitimizing a shift in welfare provision from the sta...
