Month: July 2023

Shengyuan Ji, December 2022 Radicalisation The term ‘radicalisation’ has been defined as the process by which someone is encouraged to develop extreme views or beliefs in support of terrorist groups and activities’ . This definition is very vague; indeed, it does not really provide a definition for the term itself, but leans on two other very loaded … Read more

Christy Forshaw, June 2023 Latin America has seen a prevalence of violent political instability in the past century. Coinciding with this, the past century has also been a time of literary growth in the region, most commonly as a result of the ‘boom’ of the 1960s and 1970s.[1] As a result, analysis of Latin American literature … Read more

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Whatever we inherit from the fortunateWe have taken from the defeatedWhat they had to leave us – a symbol:A symbol perfected in death T. S. Eliot, Collected Poems 1909-1962. (London: Faber and Faber, 1974): 220 I hae mair ado than I can manage the day, foreby ganging to houk up hunder-year-auld-banes. James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and … Read more