Social justice requires us to ask what we owe each other as moral equals and how resources, power, opportunities, and capabilities ought to be fairly distributed. This involves confronting structural inequalities and engaging with institutions and norms to bring about meaningful, material change.
The Talking Humanities podcast introduces projects and reflections from researchers across the Arts and Humanities Faculty at Durham University.
Prof Arlene Holmes-Henderson MBE, Professor of Classics Education and Public Policy in our Department of Classics and Ancient History, talks in this video about her British Academy Innovation Fellowship and how her research on oracy, social mobility and employability is impacting education in schools.
I'm working with a number of Government partners to help the Department for Education to think about how Classics and modern languages can be taken forward to a national strategic level.
Learn more about research on oracy, social mobility and employability.
Guest, M. (2022). Neoliberal Religion: Faith and Power in the Twenty-First Century. Bloomsbury.
This book explores neoliberalism as an account of contemporary society and considers what this means for our understanding of religion. Neoliberalism is a perspective grounded in free market economics and distinguished by a celebration of competition and consumer choice. It has had a profound influence in societies across the world, and has extended its reach into all areas of human experience. And yet neoliberalism is not just about enterprise and opportunity. It also comes with authoritarian leadership, gross inequality and the manipulation of information.
Has religion been transformed into a market commodity or consumer product? Does the embrace of business methods make religious movements more culturally relevant, or can they be used to reinforce inequalities of gender or ethnicity? How might neoliberal contexts demand we think differently about matters of religious identity and power? This book provides an accessible discussion about religion in the 21st century.
In this video, Prof John Barclay (Lightfoot Professor of Divinity, Durham University), Prof Linda Woodhead (King’s College, London) and Dr Tricia Bruce (University of Notre Dame) are in conversation with the author Prof Mathew Guest (Professor in the Sociology of Religion, Durham University).
Hannah Rose Thomas, an inspiring Durham History and Arabic graduate and an award-winning portrait artist, now uses her talent to tell the stories of displaced women, survivors of sexual abuse and marginalised communities. Her recent book ‘Tears of Gold’ brings together her beautiful portraiture and the stories of these women and has been recognised with a foreword from the King.
Learn more about Professor Anna Rowlands from our Department of Theology and Religion and get to know what a typical day in her life looks like. Anna is a leading theologian who’s helping to shape the future of the Catholic Church.
Discover some of Durham University's research centres, initiatives, and projects related to Social Justice, Communities, and Policy.
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