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The sociology of the English ignorance

By: Helton Levy May 16, 2019June 23, 2019

Britain, Immigration, My writing, Politics, UKbrexit, british politics, ignorance, Immigration, sociologyLeave a Comment

Some thoughts about Brexit and the possibilities of using the Sociology of Ignorance.

The casualisation of UK’s Higher Education is real

By: Helton Levy January 25, 2019January 28, 2019

Academic, Britain, London, UKhigher education, lecturing, phd, phdchat, UK Higher Education, universities

A colleague told me this sad case about the precarious state of working for the Higher Education sector in the UK. In short, neither payment should be taken for granted nor knowing how much you’ll be paid.

Reading Stuart Hall as an immigrant: A review of Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands

By: Helton Levy February 24, 2018May 17, 2018

Book reviews, Britain, History, Immigration, Media studies, PostcolonialBill Schwarz, Colonialism, Immigration, jamaica, Penguin, postcolonialism, Stuart Hall, windrushLeave a Comment

Stuart Hall’s considerable influence in the UK and abroad stems from his cultural, sociological and political trajectories (Back & Moreno Figueroa, 2014; Roman, 2015; Zhang, 2017), as these areas perfectly articulated throughout his life (Solomos, 2014). Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands (Penguin, 2017) is an excellent opportunity to glance over them in both…