Blog

Here you can read the latest news and views from our Fellows and associates. Many articles are also reprinted in the ISRF Bulletin, the Foundation’s in-house periodical.

The Blog and Bulletin are edited by Dr Lars Cornelissen.

Latest blog post

Against Improvement

by Lorna Finlayson

As institutional leaders and politicians continue to pursue budget cuts to essential resources, language becomes a tool to mask their harmful impacts. Lorna Finlayson explores the subtleties of 'improvements', a political euphemism that indicates a change for the worse.
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Latest blog post

Neoliberalism is Constitutively Racialised

by Lars Cornelissen

In his new book, Neoliberalism and Race, Lars Cornelissen argues that the neoliberal tradition of thought is constitutively racialised.
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Latest publication

Bulletin #32: Crisis and Conjuncture: Climate, Borders, Politics

Based on papers presented at the ISRF’s 2024 annual conference, contributions aim to recalibrate existing categories of analysis in the face of escalating political, humanitarian, and environmental crises.
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