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Thinking AllowedAsylum and 'Home'Asylum and 'home' - the impact of asylum dispersal and Syrian refugees' quest for home. Laurie Taylor talks to Jonathan Darling, Associate Professor in Human Geography at Durham University, about the system of housing and support for asylum seekers and refugees in Britain, from the first outsourced asylum accommodation contracts in 2012 to the renewed wave of outsourcing pursued by the Home Office today. Drawing on six years of research into Britain's dispersal system, and foregrounding the voices and experiences of refugees and asylum seekers, he argues that dispersal has caused suffering and played a central role in the erasure...2023-04-0529 min
New Books in Public PolicyVicki Squire, "Europe's Migration Crisis: Border Deaths and Human Dignity" (Cambridge UP, 2020)Rejecting claims that migration is a crisis for Europe, Europe's Migration Crisis: Border Deaths and Human Dignity (Cambridge University Press, 2020) instead suggests that the 'migration crisis' reflects a more fundamental breakdown of a modern European tradition of humanism. Squire provides a detailed and broad-ranging analysis of the EU's response to the 'crisis', highlighting the centrality of practices of governing migration through death and precarity. Furthermore, she unpacks a series of pro-migration activist interventions that emerge from the lived experiences of those regularly confronting the consequences of the EU's response. By showing how these advance alternative horizons of solidarity and hope, Sq...2022-04-1152 min
New Books in Human RightsVicki Squire, "Europe's Migration Crisis: Border Deaths and Human Dignity" (Cambridge UP, 2020)Rejecting claims that migration is a crisis for Europe, Europe's Migration Crisis: Border Deaths and Human Dignity (Cambridge University Press, 2020) instead suggests that the 'migration crisis' reflects a more fundamental breakdown of a modern European tradition of humanism. Squire provides a detailed and broad-ranging analysis of the EU's response to the 'crisis', highlighting the centrality of practices of governing migration through death and precarity. Furthermore, she unpacks a series of pro-migration activist interventions that emerge from the lived experiences of those regularly confronting the consequences of the EU's response. By showing how these advance alternative horizons of solidarity and ho...2022-04-1152 min
New Books in World AffairsVicki Squire, "Europe's Migration Crisis: Border Deaths and Human Dignity" (Cambridge UP, 2020)Rejecting claims that migration is a crisis for Europe, Europe's Migration Crisis: Border Deaths and Human Dignity (Cambridge University Press, 2020) instead suggests that the 'migration crisis' reflects a more fundamental breakdown of a modern European tradition of humanism. Squire provides a detailed and broad-ranging analysis of the EU's response to the 'crisis', highlighting the centrality of practices of governing migration through death and precarity. Furthermore, she unpacks a series of pro-migration activist interventions that emerge from the lived experiences of those regularly confronting the consequences of the EU's response. By showing how these advance alternative horizons of solidarity and hope, Sq...2022-04-1152 min
New Books in Diplomatic HistoryVicki Squire, "Europe's Migration Crisis: Border Deaths and Human Dignity" (Cambridge UP, 2020)Rejecting claims that migration is a crisis for Europe, Europe's Migration Crisis: Border Deaths and Human Dignity (Cambridge University Press, 2020) instead suggests that the 'migration crisis' reflects a more fundamental breakdown of a modern European tradition of humanism. Squire provides a detailed and broad-ranging analysis of the EU's response to the 'crisis', highlighting the centrality of practices of governing migration through death and precarity. Furthermore, she unpacks a series of pro-migration activist interventions that emerge from the lived experiences of those regularly confronting the consequences of the EU's response. By showing how these advance alternative horizons of solidarity and ho...2022-04-1152 min
New Books in Eastern European StudiesVicki Squire, "Europe's Migration Crisis: Border Deaths and Human Dignity" (Cambridge UP, 2020)Rejecting claims that migration is a crisis for Europe, Europe's Migration Crisis: Border Deaths and Human Dignity (Cambridge University Press, 2020) instead suggests that the 'migration crisis' reflects a more fundamental breakdown of a modern European tradition of humanism. Squire provides a detailed and broad-ranging analysis of the EU's response to the 'crisis', highlighting the centrality of practices of governing migration through death and precarity. Furthermore, she unpacks a series of pro-migration activist interventions that emerge from the lived experiences of those regularly confronting the consequences of the EU's response. By showing how these advance alternative horizons of solidarity and ho...2022-04-1152 min
New Books in European PoliticsVicki Squire, "Europe's Migration Crisis: Border Deaths and Human Dignity" (Cambridge UP, 2020)Rejecting claims that migration is a crisis for Europe, Europe's Migration Crisis: Border Deaths and Human Dignity (Cambridge University Press, 2020) instead suggests that the 'migration crisis' reflects a more fundamental breakdown of a modern European tradition of humanism. Squire provides a detailed and broad-ranging analysis of the EU's response to the 'crisis', highlighting the centrality of practices of governing migration through death and precarity. Furthermore, she unpacks a series of pro-migration activist interventions that emerge from the lived experiences of those regularly confronting the consequences of the EU's response. By showing how these advance alternative horizons of solidarity and ho...2022-04-1152 min
City, Community, CultureEp6: City of Sanctuary - Rightful PresenceEpisode 6 of City, Community, Culture. This week we focus on the city of sanctuary movement, and the urban experience of asylum seekers/refugees, with Prof Vicki Squire (University of Warwick).2022-02-1446 min
Life Off Screen with Dan & Peggy RuppleEpisode 24: 2020 Highlights (Repost)As a year unlike any other comes to a close, we take a moment to look back at highlights from “Life Off Screen with Dan & Peggy Rupple.” Join us as we hear excerpts from past conversations with our entertainment industry friends about their “Life Off Screen.”Greetings by Dan and Peggy“1st Impressions”Nancy Stafford and Larry MyersPhil and Kathleen CookeTim and Heather HawkinsKeri and Eric Close“Balancing Family and Career”Cory and Vicki EdwardsRichie and Nancy FurayBria...2021-07-0825 min
Garage Heroes In TrainingGHIT 0155: Trey Shannon returns to discuss getting in shape during the off seasonTrey Shannon returns to discuss several options to get in better shape for racing and life that can be done with or without a gym. We talk through a wide variety of ways to shave pounds off each car you drive by carrying fewer (extra) pounds in the driver seat. Trey usually works with several pro level drivers and many with professional aspirations. Podium Performance not only deals with physical preparation, but mental, visual, and many other related areas that can impact your driving performance, especially in long races or races with challenging conditions like heat etc. If you happ...2020-12-211h 41Life Off Screen with Dan & Peggy RuppleEpisode 16: 2020 HighlightsAs a year unlike any other comes to a close, we take a moment to look back at highlights from “Life Off Screen with Dan & Peggy Rupple.” Join us as we hear excerpts from past conversations with our entertainment industry friends about their “Life Off Screen.”Greetings by Dan and Peggy“1st Impressions”Nancy Stafford and Larry MyersPhil and Kathleen CookeTim and Heather HawkinsKeri and Eric Close“Balancing Family and Career”Cory and Vicki EdwardsRichie and Nancy FurayBria...2020-12-1025 min
Get A Proper Job#2: The live music supply chain: navigating a pandemicIn episode two of series two of Get A 'Proper' Job, we talk about the impact of COVID-19 on the live music industry. For this episode, we have a particular focus on festivals and the creative businesses who are suppliers to the industry.
We chat to Bernie Plain, company director of rehearsal and recording studio Musicbox Studios, and Lucy Squire, head of Music for the University of South Wales.
Links and more information:
Music Venues Trust REVS document (reopen every venue safely)
Lost Horizons festival - integration of VR
Gisburne park festival – the UK’s first...2020-10-0829 min
The Mike Harding Folk ShowMike Harding Folk Show 270PODCAST: 30 Jun 201901 Harpers Frolic/Bonny Kate - Banter - Dare02 Man Of Constant Sorrow - Track Dogs - Uke Songs By Track Dogs03 The Squire And The Parson - Kate Rusby - Philosophers, Poets04 The Clannad Mare - The Paul McKenna Band - Breathe 05 Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy - Laura Smyth and Ted Kemp - From Here - English Folk Field Recordings Vol 206 Wayfaring Stranger - Rhiannon Giddens & Francesco Turrisi - There Is No Other07 Candy Man - Lea Nicholson...2019-06-281h 58
International Migration InstituteGoverning migration through death in Europe and the US: Identification, burial and the crisis of modern humanismVicki Squire examines similarities and differences in practices of ‘governing migration through death’ across the US–Mexico (Sonoran) and in the EU–North African (Mediterranean) contexts Border deaths have become an established feature of contemporary migratory politics in both Europe and the US. This article examines similarities and differences in practices of ‘governing migration through death’ across the US–Mexico (Sonoran) and in the EU–North African (Mediterranean) contexts. Instead of taking a conventional comparative analysis of two distinct sites, I draw on critical scholarship in the field of border studies in order to examine biopolitical, thanatopolitical and necropolitical dynamics of bordering tha...2016-11-2436 min