DR Ben Whitham's Outputs (2)

The cultural politics of crisis in the UK (2021)
Book Chapter
Whitham, B. The cultural politics of crisis in the UK. In S. Price, & B. Harbisher (Eds.), Power, Media and the Covid-19 Pandemic (71-85). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003147299-6

The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 triggered a global public health crisis. States, international organisations, health services and societies struggled to contain the virus and its potentially catastrophic social and economic effects. Thi... Read More about The cultural politics of crisis in the UK.

Struggling for the anti-racist university: learning from an institution-wide response to curriculum decolonisation (2021)
Journal Article
Hall, R., Ansley, L., Connolly, P., Loonat, S., Patel, K., & Whitham, B. (in press). Struggling for the anti-racist university: learning from an institution-wide response to curriculum decolonisation. Teaching in Higher Education, 26(7/8), 902-919. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2021.1911987

Increasingly, institutions are amplifying work on race equality, in order to engage with movements for Black lives and decolonising. This brings universities into relations with individual and communal issues of whiteness, white fragility and privile... Read More about Struggling for the anti-racist university: learning from an institution-wide response to curriculum decolonisation.