How do we create gender equality in our cities (and suburbs, villages or coastal resorts)? This is a question urban lawyers, planners and designers are increasingly asking as more evidence comes to light about how women use spaces differently (travelling more on foot, for example, than by driving), how girls use playgrounds (wanting spaces to …
This is a draft reading list for a proposed graduate module on Disability, Law and Policy at Oxford. As ever, there are far more readings to include, if you have suggestions or comments, please do get in touch, this is an area of research that I am still developing. If there are any readings here …
Governing Biodiversity and Nature: A False Distinction What is the difference between nature and biodiversity? The 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity defines biodiversity as ‘the variability among living organisms from all sources including, inter alia, terrestrial, marine and other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which they are part: this includes diversity within species, …
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Seven months after the removal of Bristol’s statue of Edward Colston in June 2020, the Secretary of State for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is concerned. Writing in the Sunday Telegraph on January 18th, Robert Jenrick argued that “We will save Britain’s statues from the woke militants who want to censor our past”, claiming that …
The toppling of the statue of Edward Colston has made the front pages of newspapers all over the world. “Hooray!” read an email from an Australian friend the next morning, “I’ve just been enjoying reading and viewing the pushing of that vanity statue of a slave trader into Bristol waters and thought of you and …
The Covid-19 virus has thrown both housing inequality and its corollary, a lack of access to green or open space, into sharp relief. For some, being told to stay home is boring, awkward and restrictive. For others, home has become a site of confinement, lacking any opportunity to play on grass, sit down in the …