Simon Winlow

This book looks at what is needed to prevent the proliferation of harm and the gradual collapse of civil society. A wide range of expert contributors outline wh...

This book looks at what is needed to prevent the proliferation of harm and the gradual collapse of civil society. A wide range of expert contributors outline wh...

This book looks at what is needed to prevent the proliferation of harm and the gradual collapse of civil society. A wide range of expert contributors outline wh...

This chapter contends that carefully evidenced analysis should remain a defining feature of social scientific writing, and that it is important to make more room in disciplines for forthright political critique and impassioned discussions. A significant motivation for many social researchers is the possibility that their work will act on and improve the world, even if this may only be in a small way. The push to work with and for business in academia in many countries suggests that debates will continue over the question of who and what publicly funded research is for. To identify and understand problems that require resolution is a key aspect of the ethos and function of social science.

(2018). A people’s history of riots, protest and the law: the sound of the crowd. Policing and Society: Vol. 28, No. 8, pp. 999-1000.

Let’s be honest with ourselves: liberalism is the ideology that won. It now towers over the decaying corpses of socialism and conservatism, the master of all it surveys. It has established a global hegemony in the field of political economy. All of our politicians, it seems, are fully signed up advocates of the global free market. Certainly, there are few willing to speak in opposition to the dominance of global finance capital. We see the dominance of economic liberalism most clearly when we look at what has become of SYRIZA in Greece. Even those who enter office with a clear democratic mandate and a desire to curb the power of the market find it impossible to withstand its power and influence.