Monday at the University of East London

Posted on March 4 2016

I am speaking at this event on Monday:

The Labour Party, Europe and Civic Engagement:

People's Empowerment or Misplaced Idealism?

Half-day workshop
Time: 2pm — 6:30pm
Venue: RB1.14 (University of East London, Stratford)
Confirmed speakers: Professor Richard Murphy (City University); Mr John Christensen (Tax Justice Network); Professor Leila Simona Talani (King's College London); Professor Bulent Gokay (Keele University).
Convenors: Centre for the Study of States, Markets and People (STAMP, University of East London); Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence (King's College London); School of Politics and International Relations (SPIRE, Keele University).
Event registration url: http://stamp-event.eventbrite.co.uk
For more information, contact Ejike Udeogu — e.udeogu@uel.ac.uk.

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  1. Dave Hansell says:
    March 5 2016 at 10:28 am

    That is certainly an interesting and timely topic of discussion given the trend in which more and more behaviours, opinions, attitudes and views are not just commonly regarded as criminal but even classed as acts of “minor” terrorism; and not just by the usual paranoid authoritarians and security freaks.

    Checkout this abstract from a scientific study from the Journal of Spatial Science looking at the works of the artist known as Banksy where the objective is to identify the artist:

    http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14498596.2016.1138246?journalCode=tjss20

    “Abstract

    The pseudonymous artist Banksy is one of the UK’s most successful contemporary artists, but his identity remains a mystery. Here, we use a Dirichlet process mixture (DPM) model of geographic profiling, a mathematical technique developed in criminology and finding increasing application within ecology and epidemiology, to analyse the spatial patterns of Banksy artworks in Bristol and London. The model takes as input the locations of these artworks, and calculates the probability of ‘offender’ residence across the study area. Our analysis highlights areas associated with one prominent candidate (e.g., his home), supporting his identification as Banksy. More broadly, these results support previous suggestions that analysis of minor terrorism-related acts (e.g., graffiti) could be used to help locate terrorist bases before more serious incidents occur, and provides a fascinating example of the application of the model to a complex, real-world problem.”

    It surely cannot be too long before books extolling the virtues of, for want of an example, paying your tax are regarded as signs of deviancy on the slippery slope towards terrorism?