The physical world: waves and relativity
An introduction to this album.
An introduction: Sacking prime ministers
A short video introduction to this album
An introduction: Sacking prime ministers
A short video introduction to this album
An introduction: Sacking prime ministers
A short video introduction to this album
An introduction: Sacking prime ministers
A short video introduction to this album
Introduction by Doreen Massey
Doreen talks about her life and work at The Open University.
One to One Consultation
A client and an instructor from 37 Degrees Gym demonstrate the components that make up effective communication and rapport building.
Participatory development inaction
A brief introduction to this album.
What is critical practice?
A look at the meaning of critical practice, the views of service users, and the professional power of social workers.
Water Treatment
A short introduction to this album.
Integrated health, safety and environmental management
A brief introduction to this album.
Capacities for managing development
A short introduction to this album.
Capacities for managing development
A short introduction to this album.
Moving to England
Two Sierra Leonean women on their experiences of arriving in England, and their experiences as immigrants in England.
Man in the Black Hat: Who is to Blame for the Subprime Crisis?
Timothy Sinclair analyses the way in which all financial crises seem to generate an explicitly political hunt for the culprit, and asks whether the American credit rating agencies legitimately fill such a role in the ongoing credit crunch.
When Credit Becomes Debt: Foreclosure and Forbearance in Subprime Mortgages
Paul Langley discusses the impact - both political and economic - of major US Federal Government programmes in support for forbearance by lenders of mortgage debt within the US subprime sector.
Specter of the Subprime Borrower: Moving Beyond the Credit Score Analysis
Johnna Montgomerie asks the explicitly political questions of who are the subprime borrowers, how did they come to occupy such a position and what responsibility do public policy-makers and private sector creditors bear for their current status.
The Role of Financial Risk in Privatised Keynesianism
Colin Crouch analyses postwar economic and financial regulation against a series of changes in the fundamental character of macroeconomic regimes, linking the current subprime crisis to the development of a regime of privatised Keynesianism.
Asset-Based Welfare and the Financialisation of the Citizen
Alan Finlayson discusses the ethics and political theory of response to the subprime crisis, situating his analysis with respect to the UK Government's attempts to create a 'financially literate' population suited to undertaking the move to an asset-based system of welfare.
Financial Innovation: Frame, Conjuncture and Bricolage
Ewald Engelen, Ismail Erturk, Julie Froud, Adam Leaver and Karel Williams collaborate on a paper about how the type of financial innovation which eventually led to the subprime crisis is constructed in different discourses, in financial journalism and official reports as much as in mainstream academic finance or social studies of finance.
