Reading for Battle

Battle Readings is a regularly updated compilation of articles, essays, and opinion pieces relevant to the themes of the Battle of Ideas.

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Recent Readings

Think BIG
Shot in Ghana by a volunteer crew, Think BIG showcases Ghanaians with big aspirations and big plans
Ceri Dingle (director), WORLDwrite documentary, 2007

Overburdened schools
Once, life revolved around church and chapel. Now it is being organised around nursery and school
Ben Rogers, Prospect, January 2007

Social Network Sites: Public, Private, or What?
To understand their role in socialising today’s youth, educators need to explore the social dynamics of mediated public life like social network sites
Danah Boyd, The Knowledge Tree, Edition 13, 2007

The emergence of 'super-diversity' in Britain
Britain is now characterised by the unprecedented complexity and variety of different groups within its borders
Steven Vertovec, COMPAS, 2006

The Social SoftWar
Conflicts on the net, as elsewhere, need not have recourse to a labour theory of rights to be political struggles
Angela Mitropoulos, Mute Magazine, 31 December 2006

Charm Offensive: How China’s Soft Power Is Transforming the World ‘By understanding China’s soft power Washington can more systematically set clear limits and establish where it believes China possibly threatens American interests’

Joshua Kurlantzick, Yale University Press, 2006

Does the future really belong to China?
Is China’s partial conversion to capitalism jeopardising future growth or will it simply blaze its own political and economic path?
Will Hutton and Meghnad Desai, Prospect, December 2006

The nature of the beast: cultural diversity policies and the visual arts sector
‘Since the 1970s, cultural diversity initiatives within the visual arts sector have arguably exacerbated rather than confronted exclusionary pathologies of the art world’
Richard Hylton, Institute of Contemporary Interdisciplinary Arts, 2006

Estates: An Intimate History In this history of social housing, the ideal is played off against the socio-economic reality

Lynsey Hanley, Granta, 2006

The History at the End of History
As the US invasion of Iraq demonstrates, democracy cannot be imposed from without
Francis Fukuyama, Project Syndicate, 2006


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