Word count (including notes and references): 6289 AbstractAs an approach to the internationalisation of higher education, Internationalisation at Home (IaH) looks beyond the mobility of a minority of students, emphasizing instead the delivery to all students of an internationally-focussed curriculum, and the embedding of intercultural communication. This can be expanded to include extra-curricular activities and building relationships with local cultural and ethnic community groups. The MA in International Development at Nottingham Trent University UK has implemented this approach, looking beyond both mobility and curriculum to apply IaH directly to student employability, embracing intercultural competence as a key professional skill. This paper explores the efficacy of this combination in the MA's Professional Development Pathway, which requires students to complete a placement which demonstrates international and intercultural engagement, usually undertaken "at home", and to critically reflect not just on their professional skills, but on their ability to engage in the ethical practice which is a key element of IaH.(150 words)
This paper explores the ambivalent nature of community organisation as a response to a "crisis of authority" in post-industrial areas subject to urban regeneration. In the discourse of the Third Way, activism has been increasingly discursively framed as "participation", legitimizing a shift in welfare provision from the state onto civil society and a proliferation of conclude that the potential of this as a source of contestation depends on two dimensions of practice: (i) the development by activists of a critical understanding of how to foster or maintain long-term collective interests, identity and practices within their communities and (ii) maintaining a clear sense of separation from the state which allows power to be confronted.
In the 40 years since Chile and the United Kingdom became the crucibles of neoliberalization, working-class agency has been transformed, its institutions systematically dismantled and its politics, after the continuity neoliberalism of both the UK Blair government and the Chilean Concertación, in a crisis of legitimacy. In the process, memories of struggle have been captured within narratives of ‘capitalist realism’ (Fisher) – the present, past and future collapsed into Walter Benjamin’s ‘empty homogeneous time’. This article explores ways in which two traumatic moments of working-class struggle have been narrativized by the media in the service of this ‘presentism’: the 1973 coup in Chile and the 1984–1985 Miners’ Strike in the United Kingdom. We argue that the use of ‘living history’ or bottom-up approaches to memory provides an urgently needed recovery of disruptive narratives of class identity and offers a way of reclaiming alternative futures from the grip of reductive economic nationalism.
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