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The politics of the EU debate: Dr Anil Awesti interviewed by the Worldly magazine // Lacuna call for submissions (reminder)
Dr Anil Awesti, Centre for Human Rights in Practice member who leads the Widening Participation projects at the Law School, was interviewed on The politics of the EU debate by the Worldly magazine.
Lacuna magazine is currently focusing on the UK/EU debate with reference to the themes of human rights and social justice.
In What has the EU ever done for us, Lacuna editor-in-chief Prof Andrew Williams sets out some of the questions we hope to explore over the next couple of months in the run up to the referendum. To find out more about the call for submissions, click here.
Lacuna magazine: Lost voices
In today's edition Lacuna magazine attempts to bring to the forefront lost voices across three markedly different political struggles.
In “Two flights: the deportation game” Luke de Noronha interviews Chris, a young man deported to Jamaica who spent his formative years in the UK. Across the UK at any one time there are 3,000 foreign nationals detained in secure centres while their applications to stay in the country are processed. Some are held for months and even years while this takes place.
In “Anatomy of a Queer Arab novel” Saleem Haddad narrows in on the experience of queerness, as a political act and as sexuality, against the backdrop of the momentous protests of the Arab spring. In a frank discussion of his debut novel “Guapa”, Saleem explains the complications implicit in any attempt to unravel and re-humanise the queer Arab from within Middle Eastern societies.
In ‘My Experience of Death Row” Warwick student Victoria Potts provides a personal account of her experience of meeting prisoners facing the death penalty in the USA. Her article describes the process of getting to know prisoners and considering the importance of their crimes in relation to the punishment they received.
Lacuna Magazine - EU/UK Call for Submissions
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