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In Part One of this book review we defined the key concepts and highlighted the main issues with carceral veganism and the ‘intersectional entanglements’ that link animal welfare with all other forms of liberation from oppression. In Part Two, we highlighted some of the key chapters, that set out a range of useful examples for […]
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In the previous blog, we reviewed the key concepts contained within the seminal book Vegan Entanglements: Dismantling Racial and Carceral Capitalism. The book starts out by defining the problem of carceral veganism, placing it in its wider context. The core strength of the book is its relentless insistence on the intersectionality and entangled nature of […]
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This paradigm shifting book offers a radical alternative to the populist belief that animal welfare is improved through the expansion of laws that impose carceral sentences on those who abuse or cause harm to animals. This, the contributors of the book argue, is the prevailing orthodoxy among the majority of animal advocates who identify as […]
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Recent events surrounding the relentless partying that took place at Downing Street while the rest of the country was in lockdown, have raised questions about the role of the police in contemporary society. Perhaps the most common complaint to arise from the Party-Gate ‘scandal’ is that the powerful are not held to account in a […]
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This article was first published in October 2016 on the Reimagining Conflict: Pedagogy, Policy and Arts Group Website This is a link to the original article On April 14th 2022 the Russian invasion of Ukraine had been relentless for 50 days. The world is struggling to come to grips with, and to respond to the […]
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On the 14th April 2022, the UK Government announced plans to transfer all migrants who have been deemed to have entered the UK ‘illegally’ to the East African country of Rwanda. Here they will be processed and if successful in their application for asylum, they will be allowed to stay, in Rwanda, for an indefinite period. On […]
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In 2003, ex-professional wrestler Jim Wilson wrote: “As a onetime wrestler insider … my objective is to show that pro wrestling industry has more appalling abuses than its predetermined outcomes and more seriously harmed victims than its unsuspecting young fans. Pro wrestling’s most contemptible secret is not its bad acting or predetermined outcomes, but its […]
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Geo Maher’s new book, A World Without Police, makes a very straightforward set of claims that, although specific to the US, have universal relevance. Firstly, Maher claims that the police do more harm than they ever purport to ‘prevent’ and that they serve a political, rather than a societal function – namely the enforcement of […]
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Tomorrow, Tuesday the 30th November 2021, Craig Murray will be released from HMP Edinburgh, having served four months of an eight-month prison sentence imposed earlier this year. The remaining four months will be served in the community under licence. Mr Murray, journalist and former British diplomat, was imprisoned after being found guilty of contempt of […]
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The UK Government, the mainstream media and Police Scotland are proudly promoting the fact that COP26 will be one of the biggest police operations ever to take place in the UK. If the thought of 10,000 police on the streets of Glasgow, many carrying weapons, isn’t in itself deeply worrying, then the potential consequences for […]
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