In this episode of Pulse of the Politic, Charlie talks to Anna-Julia, a first-year War Studies student who wrote an article in The Dialogue entitled "2.3 Million Shackles: Understanding the Prison Industrial Complex".
If you would like to read the article, check out the latest edition of The Dialogue.
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In this episode of Politisphere, Erik talks to Professor Hillary Briffa from King's College London. Dr. Briffa is a senior lecturer on the National Security Studies course and is the founding member of the Centre for Grand Strategy.
If you are interested in learning more about SIDS (which you should be), then please check out the following material:
More on Tuvalu's digital statehood:
If you want to check out Dr. Briffa, here is her profile and one of her papers on Small Island States:
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In this episode, Charlie speaks to Olivia Standing from Make Votes Matter, a youth organisation campaigning for proportional representation in the UK. If anyone would like to learn more about Make Votes Matter and electoral reform as a whole, you can find them here:
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In this episode of Politisphere, Erik talks to two King's College London students and members of the Politics Society Committee, Sophia Naraghi and Maria Howard, on the geopolitics of oil.
If you are interested in the topic of oil geopolitics, you can check out the following material:
Why the U.S. Can't Use the Oil it Produces. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veTbuLu7znc
Oil Sparks in the Amazon - Local Conflicts, Indigenous Populations, and Natural Resources: Tracing Oil and Gas-Related Conflicts. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/j.ctt46n84z.6.pdf?refreqid=fastly-default%3A9e590914f304ea7219268b36b4fdf2b7&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_search_gsv2%2Fcontrol&initiator=search-results&acceptTC=1
Oil and Geopolitics: The Oil Crises of the 1970s and the Cold War. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/24145533.pdf?refreqid=fastly-default%3A9e590914f304ea7219268b36b4fdf2b7&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_search_gsv2%2Fcontrol&initiator=search-results&acceptTC=1
Here's how Russian oil is making its way to the US. https://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2024/02/19/russia-oil-india-ocean-trade-vpx.cnn
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In the first episode of Pulse of the Politic, our host Charlie Ackland speaks to Sophie Harborne, founder of DemocraFest, the UK's first Democracy festival. What is it like working in parliament? What changes need to take place to build a greater democratic environment? Sophie offers an engaging insight into these topics and many more.
If you're interested in DemocraFest, and would like to learn more about it, check out the website at https://www.democrafest.co.uk/.
Pulse of the Politic is a student podcast series aimed around getting to the beating heart of political discourse, an attempt to find answers to some of the most pressing political questions of our time.
Our first season is focused on the importance of political discussion and engagement, as we, the KCL Politics society believe that politics begins at the doorstep of conversation and debate.
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In the inaugural episode of PolitiSphere, Erik talks to Benjamin Evans, deputy editor-in-chief of Roar News, about the fundamentals of journalism, how to report accurately and efficiently, and what the consequences are if the truth is not achieved.
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