Today the death of the Cuban leader Fidel Castro was announced. This book turns its attention to a lesser known figure of the Cuban Revolution, Haydée Santamaría, offering a deeply personal portrait.
From the LSE RB Archive: Haydée Santamaría, Cuban Revolutionary: She Led By Transgression by Margaret Randall.
Charles Schulz, creator of Peanuts, once said that his life’s work was just a ‘plain old comic strip, which helps to sell newspapers’. But a new book chapter from two of his fans, Dr Paolo Dini and Mario Barile, argues that the social and psychological insights of Schulz’s work should not be overlooked.
New Author Interview: 'Not Just Peanuts' by Dr Paolo Dini and Mario Barile.
What rights do writers in the US film, TV and advertising industries have when it comes to ownership over their work and how has unionisation impacted on these since the mid-twentieth century?
New Review on LSE RB: Writing for Hire: Unions, Hollywood and Madison Avenue by Catherine L. Fisk.
Should madness and distress be framed as forms of disability? This new book explores 'the unsettled relationship between madness and disability' and its implications for people with mental health problems.
New Review on LSE RB: Madness, Distress and the Politics of Disablement edited by Helen Spandler, Jill Anderson and Bob Sapey.
Looking for a guide for both PhD students and supervisors that 'gets closer to the actual and messy practices of doctoral training'? President of LSE Bees, Sroyon Mukherjee, reviews a new addition to the doctoral self-help genre.
New on LSE Review of Books: A Survival Kit for Doctoral Students and Their Supervisors: Traveling the Landscape of Research by Lene Tanggaard and Charlotte Wegener.
In A Fiery and Furious People, James Sharpe offers a new history of violence in England from the medieval period to the present day. In this review, Katherine Williams focuses on the book’s particular treatment of sexual violence against women and the gendered perceptions of its victims in both the media and wider society.
New Review on LSE RB: A Fiery and Furious People: A History of Violence in England by James Sharpe.
Today - 22 November - is the anniversary of the JFK assassination, an event still shrouded in controversy and rumour. But why are we so drawn to the conspiracy theory?
From the LSE RB Archive: American Conspiracy Theories by Joseph E. Uscinski and Joseph M. Parent.
Concerning the post-Cold War resurgence of political debates on Japanese colonial and wartime violence, Cold War Ruins shows the limits and hypocrisies of liberal peace-building projects and judicialised forms of post-war justice.
New Review on LSE RB: Cold War Ruins: Transpacific Critique of American Justice and Japanese War Crimes by Lisa Yoneyama.
Boko Haram came to particular global attention in 2014 following the kidnapping of the Chibok schoolgirls and the subsequent #bringbackourgirls social media campaign. But how did Boko Haram emerge in Nigeria and what social and state structures sustained its position?
New Review on LSE RB: ‘Eat the Heart of the Infidel’: The Harrowing of Nigeria and the Rise of Boko Haram by Andrew Walker.
'Academic writing became a zen practice of remembering to put full stops between my thoughts, pausing to figure out what on earth I was actually trying to think, let alone write, and then re-writing all the run-on sentences into intelligible paragraphs.'
From the LSE Archive: On reworking the notion of 'workflow' as a mid-life doctoral mother.
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'A text that allows for resonance is not solely a transfer of knowledge. It sparks ideas, vigour and action. If this is so, then this is what we need to acknowledge as we write to achieve impact: the way we write influences not only the reception of our papers, but also what people will do with it.'
New on LSE RB: 'Writing with Resonance' by Charlotte Wegener and Ninna Meier.
'When you speak, you are the expert … you are humanity’s functionary who speaks in the collective voice. Be humble and prudent before opening your mouth, but once you open it, be dignified and proud.'
Umberto Eco in How to Write a Thesis, reviewed in the LSE RB Archive.
Today marks the end of #COP22, the UN Conference on Climate Change. Environmental policymaking has focused on 2°C as the maximum figure by which temperatures can be allowed to rise globally. But is this amount still too much?
From the LSE RB Archive: The Two Degrees Dangerous Limit for Climate Change: Public Understanding and Decision Making by Christopher Shaw.
'Without a legitimate structure to represent the diversity of local people, to identify shared issues and concerns, to articulate and mobilise around these and to negotiate with other power brokers in the locality, localism could not be sustained.'
Jane Wills in new book Locating Localism: Statecraft, Citizenship and Democracy, reviewed on LSE RB.
'Academic writing is the method of dissemination and potential impact, yet paradoxically how to write with resonance seems to be the most under-appreciated question in academic life and work.'
New Materiality of Research Feature: 'Writing with Resonance' by Charlotte Wegener and Ninna Meier.
‘The transition process that follows regime change can revive old, sometimes forgotten, issues.' How are Libya, Yemen and Tunisia grappling with political transition post-revolution?
New Review on LSE RB: Unfinished Revolutions: Yemen, Libya and Tunisia After the Arab Spring by Ibrahim Fraihat.
