Department of Politics and International Relations at Goldsmiths, UOL

Department of Politics and International Relations at Goldsmiths, UOL Teaching politics for the 21st century: Specialists in IR, Political Theory, Political Economy and Art&Politics. And it looks beyond the West.

Politics at Goldsmiths teaches all aspects of politics to undergraduates and postgraduates, but with a distinctive twist. We have specialists in postcolonial politics (in China, India, Africa and Japan), political economy, political theory, and art & politics. At Goldsmiths politics goes beyond voting systems, parliaments and the conventional arenas of power. We focus on conflict, cultures and cro

ssing boundaries so we’re exploring clashes of ideas in the world that’s emerging, drawing on a range of disciplines and examining everything from anarchism to anime. As a department we’re interested in what happens at the edges of cultures, societies or systems – but we’re also covering the core ground. So as a student here you’ll graduate with an excellent all-round Politics degree but you’ll also be able to take advantage of our specialist strengths in international relations, political theory, and art and politics. Whether you want to study the gravitas of graffiti, the politics inside your own family, or social media and the Arab Spring, you’ll be able to debate your ideas within an award-winning department – scoring 22 out of 24 in the latest UK government teaching quality assessment – with the freedom to pursue the areas that interest you most.

Prof Will Davies writes for London Review of Books about the recent budget and Labour's economic vision for Britain
13/11/2024

Prof Will Davies writes for London Review of Books about the recent budget and Labour's economic vision for Britain

Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer’s platform requires them to inhabit a contradiction. They need to demonstrate what a...

I am pleased to announce the publication of my new edited (with |Maximilian Conrad) book on post-truth and populism as p...
02/10/2024

I am pleased to announce the publication of my new edited (with |Maximilian Conrad) book on post-truth and populism as part of our Horizon Reclaim project. It is available as open access here:

This open access book analyses the convergence between post-truth political culture and the politics of populism

Simon Griffiths, Reader in British Politics, writes for the Constitution Society about how think tanks are changing toda...
25/09/2024

Simon Griffiths, Reader in British Politics, writes for the Constitution Society about how think tanks are changing today

Simon Griffith examines how think tanks have changed, and in turn change uk politics, over the last 50 years.

A new open access article, 'Stay Home: Mapping the new domestic regime' is published in Economy & Society, co-authored b...
16/09/2024

A new open access article, 'Stay Home: Mapping the new domestic regime' is published in Economy & Society, co-authored by our Head of Department Prof Will Davies with Sahil Dutta and Nick Taylor

This paper argues that a new ‘domestic regime’ has taken hold in Anglo-American economies since 2008. The combination of austere fiscal policy and loose monetary policy produced sustained house-pri...

Dr Simon Griffiths writes for The Constitution Society about the constitutional issues at stake in the forthcoming elect...
28/06/2024

Dr Simon Griffiths writes for The Constitution Society about the constitutional issues at stake in the forthcoming election

Simon Griffiths looks at the key constitutional questions arising from the party manifestos for the 2024 general election.

One of our PPE graduates is now going head to head with Nigel Farage for a seat. Best of luck, Jovan!
17/06/2024

One of our PPE graduates is now going head to head with Nigel Farage for a seat. Best of luck, Jovan!

Goldsmiths alumnus Jovan Owusu-Nepaul has been selected as the Labour Party’s Parliamentary candidate for Clacton, in the upcoming general election on July 4.

Prof Will Davies, our Head of Department, writes for Unherd on the 10th anniversary of Thomas Piketty's landmark study o...
16/03/2024

Prof Will Davies, our Head of Department, writes for Unherd on the 10th anniversary of Thomas Piketty's landmark study of wealth and inequality

Thomas Piketty’s failed revolution Ten years on, society is governed for the wealthy The Occupy movement knew who their enemies were. (Ramin Talaie/Corbis via Getty Images) The Occupy movement knew who their enemies were. (Ramin Talaie/Corbis via Getty Images) CapitalEconomicsInequalityMarxismnone...

On 13th March, we will be hosting Gemma Milne who will be discussing her research on corporate futurism. All welcome but...
20/02/2024

On 13th March, we will be hosting Gemma Milne who will be discussing her research on corporate futurism. All welcome but please register via the link below

'Making a Market for the Metamodern: The Productive Tension of Corporate Futurism' with Gemma Milne Wednesday 13th March 2024, 5-6.30pm Richard Hoggart Building 137a, Goldsmiths University, SE14 6NW Click here to register for a free ticket This event is part of the PERC speaker ser

Prof Will Davies writes for The Guardian about Britain's drift to becoming a high tax state
24/01/2024

Prof Will Davies writes for The Guardian about Britain's drift to becoming a high tax state

After 13 years of Conservative rule, many voters simply resent taxes, now that they no longer mean better public services, says the political economist William Davies

In The New Statesman, Prof Will Davies looks back on the successes and failures of democratic socialism over the course ...
15/01/2024

In The New Statesman, Prof Will Davies looks back on the successes and failures of democratic socialism over the course of the 2010s

How the left was made and unmade.

Congratulations to our colleague Prof Saul Newman, whose new book (with Massimo La Tore) The Anarchist Before the Law wi...
11/01/2024

Congratulations to our colleague Prof Saul Newman, whose new book (with Massimo La Tore) The Anarchist Before the Law will be published next month

Explores the critical encounter between anarchism and law

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