Purple Wall Problem
By Penny Anderson My bedroom has three dirty, off-white walls (magnolia – the blandness of choice for buy to let rentiers) while one (just one) wall is a vibrant, intrusive …
The new, British Hikikomori?
By Robert MacDonald, Teesside University In Japan there is a thing called Hikikomori. It is difficult to describe to British people, where there has been no obvious parallel. In Japan, …
Working the edges in and against the State
By Joe Penny When we think about resistance to the politics of austerity and its effects, we often think of visible and embodied forms of protest: people marching on the …