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PAIS student, Daniel Murphy, has recently launched an online petition to end his former school’s proposed partnership with a school in Qatar.

Qatar has attracted international criticism for its continued human rights abuses, and its exploitation of migrant labour in the construction of its stadiums ahead of the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

Appearing on the front page of this week's Surrey Advertiser ahead of a BBC local radio interview this coming Saturday, Daniel says that the partnership contradicts many of the school's values:

"The main issue is the school’s willingness to enact a partnership with a country with huge human rights abuses. In particular, the treatment of migrant workers but also the fact that homosexuality remains punishable by death for Muslims and seven years imprisonment for non-Muslims.

The partnership contradicts many of the school'’s values and its ethos of 'caring for and valuing each individual equally'. Openly gay, lesbian and transgender teachers would not be able to apply to work at this school, while it is unlikely that openly gay students from Guildford would be allowed to participate on student exchanges with the school in Qatar."

Daniel will be appearing on BBC Radio Surrey's Breakfast Show this Saturday (9 April) at 7.15am. His petition can be signed here:

Dr. , Reader in IR and Principal Investigator of the ERC Project “Diasporas and Contested Sovereignty,” is giving a keynote lecture on 7 April, 2016 at a conference at the Central European University in Budapest on “Diasporas in Eastern Europe.”

The lecture is entitled “Diasporas, Sending States and Socio-spatial Positionality” and will feature how the socio-spatial position of diasporas in specific contexts empowers diaspora entrepreneurs in different ways, and accounts for trajectories of transnational diaspora mobilization. More information could be obtained .

’s book has just been published by Polity Press.

The book is a study of the work Foucault conducted between 1974 and his death in 1984. In 1974, Foucault began writing the first volume of his History of Sexuality, developing work he had already begun to present in his Collège de France lecture courses. In that first volume, published in late 1976, Foucault promised five further volumes, and indicated some other studies he intended to write. But none of those books actually appeared, and Foucault’s work – which we can now closely track from his courses – went in very different directions. At the very end of his life, two further volumes of the History of Sexuality were published, and a fourth was close to completion. In contrast to the originally planned thematic treatment, the final version was a much more historical study, returning to antiquity and early Christianity.

The Paris courses, other lectures, shorter publications, and related materials – some collaborative and some unpublished – are used in this book to provide an intellectual history of this final project of Foucault’s career. Research for this book was conducted in archives in France and California, and the account shows how Foucault’s pursuit of a problem led him to rework the project in both scope and shape. The book is broadly chronological, and shows how all of Foucault’s concerns in this period – from race to confession, from governmentality to neoliberalism – are all, in various ways, connected to the project on sexuality or, as he reconceived it, on the relation between truth and subjectivity.

The book is partnered with a second study, on the period immediately preceding the last decade, tracing how Foucault moved from The Archaeology of Knowledge to Discipline and Punish. That book, Foucault: The Birth of Power, is forthcoming with Polity in early 2017, and it analyses Foucault’s early Collège de France courses in relation to his political activism and research on health, madness and discipline.