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After the Riots

Contributer: Priyali Ghosh Posted: August 31, 2011
Categories: Communication, Creative Writing, Cultural Studies, Languages, Literature, Teaching & Learning, Writing Tips

I have written previously on this blog on my resistance to the idea that scholars – or luvvys and boffins to borrow the phrase used by Eric Schmidt, Chairman of Google speaking in Edinburgh last week at the annual MacTaggart lecture on the state of higher education in the UK – should be seen as living a life apart. And yet, oddly enough, I was indeed ensconced in a small room in a large building working on ideas – which is to say I was marking my students’ essays- when I first understood the scale of what had happened in the country.