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Edinburgh International Book Festival, Hostile Environment, Immigration, Structural Violence, WOMAD Festival
Recent visa refusals for visiting artists and writers at festivals in the UK have prompted discussions about the ‘Hostile Environment’. This is an intervention that argues that characterising the problems faced by these artists as aspects of the Hostile Environment is misleading, and the conversation around immigration needs greater nuance.
Whose ‘Home’ is it Coming to?: Supporting England in the World Cup
07 Saturday Jul 2018
Posted in PhD Life
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England National Football Team, FIFA World Cup 2018, Football, Hostile Environment, Imagined Communities, Nationalism
I drew England in a sweepstake for the FIFA men’s World Cup. However, I find it really difficult to get behind supporting England, and I find the forms of imagined community and the internal contradictions within them hostile and difficult to negotiate.