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Vivek Santayana

Researcher: postcolonial writing and epistemic justice.
Trade unionist: Vice President of UCU Edinburgh
Table-Top Gaming enthusiast and writer.

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    2021
      Candlekeep and the Politics of Knowledge
      19 Apr 21
    2020
      Carrying it With You: Masculinity, Grief, and Table-Top Role-Playing in Disney/Pixar’s Onward
      19 Jul 20
      How Speculating about Beethoven’s Race Misses the Point
      22 Jun 20
      Comrades: a Revolutionary RPG by W.M. Akers
      22 Jun 20
      What Does it Mean to Have a ‘Conversation’ about Empire?
      9 Jun 20
    2019
      The Uncritical Whiteness of Edinburgh Activism
      1 Sep 19
    2018
      Arts Festivals and the ‘Hostile Environment’: the Need for More Nuance
      21 Aug 18
    2017
      The ‘Love-Hurt Relationship’ of Academia: Nature’s 2017 Graduate Survey Findings on Mental Health
      17 Nov 17
      The ‘Hostile Environment’: Structural Violence in British Immigration Policy
      29 Sep 17
      The Ig Nobel Prizes, 2017: Liquid Cats, Indistinguishable Twins and Foetal Musical Stimulation
      15 Sep 17
      Googling Depression: the Risks of the Search Engine’s Attempt at Diagnosing Mental Illness
      8 Sep 17
      Acrostic Resistance: Reading the Rhetoric of Irony in the Recent Resignation Letters
      1 Sep 17
      Instagram Diagnosis: Machine Learning, Social Media and Predicting Mental Illness
      25 Aug 17
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