Introduction The winter of 2010 saw a wave of student rebellions and occupations in the UK (Ismail, 2011: 123-131). These were in response to the Government’s proposed restructuring of Higher Education (HE) and to its flagship policy: the ability of universities to treble their tuition fees. The unpopularity of these reforms, the state of austerity …
W październiku 1967 roku, po kolejnej awarii zasilania w akademikach na praskim Strahovie, tłum lokatorów – studentów Uniwersytetu Karola wyruszył ze spontaniczną manifestacją, niosąc transparenty z napisami „Chcemy światła!”. Wydarzenie to uznano za jedną z symbolicznych zapowiedzi nadchodzącej Praskiej Wiosny. Czterdzieści pięć lat później – 29 lutego 2012 roku na placu przed Wydziałem Filozofii Uniwersytetu …
A review of Springtime: The New Student Rebellions, edited by Clare Solomon and Tania Palmieri, Verso, London 2011. I was admittedly sceptical about reading Clare Solomon and Tania Palmieri’s (edited volume, 2011), Springtime: The New Student Rebellions. Although I participated in and was in awe of the student protests that took place in the UK in …
I think it better at times like these We poets keep our mouths shut, for in truth We have no gift to set a statesman right. . . —William Butler Yeats, 1915 When Yeats responded to Shelley’s famous claim that “Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world,” one wonders whether they were in fact …