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In 1977, the South Korean government agreed to send taekwondo instructors to the West African republic of Upper Volta. Inhae Yap explains what the exchange can tell us about the politics of aid in the Cold War and today.
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Shared Personhood: Rethinking Human Rights through Cognitive Disability
Disabled people and their allies have transformed the liberal idea that the human person is autonomous. Paul van Trigt on the unintended consequences of Article 12 of the 2006 Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
The Forgotten of St Paul Island
Between 1930 and 1931, forty-seven people died on a remote fishing station in the Indian Ocean. Andy Drummond examines what their lives and deaths reveal about capitalism and accountability in France's colonial empire.
Botanical Imperialism and the Making of Cragg’s Kūmara
Why was a Māori sweet potato introduced to Nigeria - and what can it tell us about the nature of colonial rule? James Akpu explores the global history of the kūmara.
Political Formation and Politicisation in Turbulent Times
How can processes of political formation shape transformative politics? Mercedes Crisóstomo discusses the experiences of Peru's militante women from past to present.
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How have various radical and internationalist traditions attempted to overcome forms of domination and build alternative, emancipatory futures? And how might these stories be useful for political struggle today?
Shared Personhood: Rethinking Human Rights through Cognitive Disability
Disabled people and their allies have transformed the liberal idea that the human person is autonomous. Paul van Trigt on the unintended consequences of Article 12 of the 2006 Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Political Formation and Politicisation in Turbulent Times
How can processes of political formation shape transformative politics? Mercedes Crisóstomo discusses the experiences of Peru's militante women from past to present.
Rachael Webb: The Forgotten Trans Marxist
Can the ideas of a controversial trans Marxist be recovered? Rebecca Jane Morgan on Rachael Webb's (1940-2009) class-based coalition politics.
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Radical Feminism and the Politics of Orgasm
How did a radical feminist study of the politics of orgasm become a global best-seller - and then disappear? Rosa Campbell explores the life and legacy of the renegade sexologist Shere Hite.
Queering the Medieval Past
What can we learn by turning a queer lens onto the study of medieval art? Three art historians discuss Spectrum of Desire, an exhibition at New York's Cloisters.
Family, Childhood & Life Course
Makeshift Utopias
How might playgrounds form part of a spatial justice movement?
Bonds of Mutuality in East Harlem
How have a small - and declining - group of nuns built grassroots power with immigrant families in East Harlem?
Britain’s ‘Bespoke’ Borders
Michaela Benson unpacks the Hong Kong British National (Overseas) visa, and how it has contributed to redrawing humanitarian protection and migration policy after Brexit.
Radical Objects
Whether letters, food or ephemera, material objects have acted as radical agents in history. Here, historians, archivists and activists unpack stories of solidarity and everyday lives.
Radical Object: Tuskegee Belle Cosmetics
What does a beauty brand for Black women reveal about the intersection of race, gender, beauty, and higher education in the Jim Crow South? Hillary Belzer explores Tuskegee Belle Cosmetics.
Radical Object: The Radar Key
The Radar Key is a small but crucial part of the history of disabled people demanding rights and independence in modern Britain. Kirstie Stage explores the little-known history of this radical object.
Radical Object: A Song Born of Women’s Protest
How did a protest by a group of women from a Christian anarchist movement inspire a 1960s American folk song? Victoria Peretitskaya explores the origins of the song, the protest and its feminist legacy.