This article was originally published on the Times Higher Education Blog on the 4. June 2018. You can read the … More
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Impostor Syndrome and the Paradox of Agency
Rather, we need to understand impostor syndrome as a form of social sufferingg, as a symptom, not of something wrong with us, but with the world we live and work in. In this short article I will explore impostor syndrome in terms of how it reflects on our sense of belonging and the conflicting values we are faced as academics and how it shows us the paradoxical nature of neoliberal agency.
Sadness and Solidarity – The strike as utopia
What I was least prepared for before the strike was the intensity of emotion it would trigger in me. Throughout the last three weeks I have felt a range of expected and unexpected feelings and I would like to take the two most intense ones to reflect on the strike and what is to come after.
Wasted Potential: Towards a Criminology of the Financial Crisis
In this post I will speculate on some of the reasons so few criminologists engage with the financial crisis and corporate crime in general. I will also show why we need to overcome these barriers and I will share some ideas on how we might do so.
Against Feel-Good Charity
By sticking band aids onto the gaping wounds of social injustice we alleviate some of the most obvious symptoms of a systemic violence in our society. We become part of the problem while trying to be part of the solution. This conflict is made all the more difficult by the fact that we can’t just choose not to do what we do.
Judging beggars is not helping them
As I am a former outreach worker Hill apparently thinks he can speak for me. He isn’t completely wrong, of course, when he writes that money people get from others may be spent on drugs and alcohol. He is, however, wrong about almost everything else and I’d like to take this opportunity to respond.
Thinking in the Open 