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Fragmented and Dealigned: The 2024 British General Election and the Rise of Place‐Based Politics
The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 13-25, January/March 2025.Abstract While the outcome of the 2024 British general election signalled a resounding repudiation of the incumbent government—returning a 231‐seat swing from the Conservatives to Labour—it did not radically overturn the geography of electoral outcomes in England and Wales.
Will Jennings +3 more
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The Grammar of Race: British Fascism, Racial Nationalism and the Rise of Reform UK
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article brings histories of British fascism and the Black Radical Tradition into conversation with the study of contemporary British politics to offer a race‐critical analysis of Reform UK's rise. Drawing on race‐critical scholarship and Black Radical analyses of fascism, it argues that Reform UK is the latest formation of a distinctively
Kian Aspinall
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Characteristics of students receiving mental health services at the university of Cape Town [PDF]
, 2000 Bibliography: leaves 689-729.The objective of the study is to describe students presenting at the UCT-SHS-MHS; (li) to compare students presenting at the UCT-SHS-MHS with students presenting at the UCT-SHS who do NOT present at the UCT-SHS-MHS (controls);
De Beer, Jeremy Peter
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The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Digital democracy needs tools and platforms for people to engage with public life and governance. Yet we know surprisingly little about the political life of this ‘civic technology’ infrastructure. How do citizens make use of these well‐intentioned invitations to participate?
Laszlo Horvath
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The Silence That Could Not Hold: Foreign Policy and the Fall of Keir Starmer
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Keir Starmer's resignation in June 2026 has been narrated almost entirely in domestic terms: the rise of Reform UK, the rout of the May local elections, the winter fuel payment and two‐child benefit cap retreats, the Mandelson appointment. This article argues that such accounts mistake the proximate triggers for the underlying cause.
Tahir Abbas
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A tenuous middle ground : conflicting rationalities and the lived negotiation of low income housing in Cape Town [PDF]
, 2010 Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-166).This thesis explores debates surrounding the social production and interaction of divergent housing rationalities through qualitative research in a low income housing development called Stock Road and in ...
Schermbrucker, Noah
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Democracy and the Mundane: Reflections on John Boswell, How Citizens Encounter the Democratic State
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract John Boswell's How Citizens Encounter the Democratic State offers a unique and compelling analysis of democracy and its challenges, and also of the mainstream academic study of citizen disengagement by political scientists and theorists. While the majority of academics focus on big structural reasons for citizens’ increasing disaffection for ...
Phil Parvin
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Our current understanding of the origins of Homo sapiens is limited, in part, by the fragmented fossil record from Late Pleistocene and early Holocene Africa. Here, we re‐examine the Kabua 1 cranium, an enigmatic and little‐studied Kenyan fossil discovered in the 1950s. We compare virtual reconstructions created previously by our team with a wide range
Abel Marinus Bosman +7 more
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All Gone to the Dogs: Peasant and Aristocratic Masculinities in a Late Medieval Swiss Revolt
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines chronicle accounts of the so‐called ‘Waldmann Affair’, a revolt within the territories of the city–state of Zurich in 1489 directed against its mayor, Hans Waldmann. The revolt was partly the consequence of failed economic and political reforms which put pressure on the countryside, but was provoked by the command issued ...
Jamie Page
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Milk and Bondage: Enslaved Wet Nurses in the Eighteenth‐Century Cape Colony
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the social history of enslaved wet nurses in the eighteenth‐century Cape Colony, arguing that the romanticised depiction of these women within settler households was not a softening of the system of slavery but an integral part of how it functioned.
Eva Marie Lehner
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