The Poverty of Apologism: The British Left, Feminism and the Islamic Right

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  • Stephen Cowden
  • Stephen Cowden

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https://doi.org/10.31273/fd.n1.2016.13

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  • Stephen Cowden

    Stephen Cowden has been involved in left, anti-racist and trade union activism and he has worked as Social Worker from 1992. In 2001 became a Social Work lecturer at Coventry University, teaching sociology and ethics. His research is concerned with Social Work ethics, Critical Pedagogy and the Sociology of Multiculturalism and Religious Fundamentalism. In 2013 he published (with Gurnam Singh) Acts of Knowing: Critical Pedagogy In, Against and Beyond the University.

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2016-07-21

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No. 1 (2016): Inaugural Issue

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