{"title":"Universal basic income: An idea whose time has come or just another mechanism to grease the wheels of capitalism?","authors":"P. Fitzpatrick","doi":"10.13169/jglobfaul.9.2.0225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/jglobfaul.9.2.0225","url":null,"abstract":"Universal basic income (UBI) is a system where everyone in a community is given a regular fixed amount of money from government intended to meet basic needs and free from any conditionality. Such a system is cheap and easy to administer as there is no means testing or checks on conditionality. There are a growing number of trials across the world and increasing support for such a scheme in the UK. A decade of austerity policies in the UK followed by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has heightened the views of some that UBI would not only address the issue of poverty and low-paid work but would serve as a response to growing automation in the workplace. It might also increase the bargaining power of workers who would be less worried about losing their job if they had the cushion of UBI.","PeriodicalId":167633,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Global Faultlines","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133105858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Does Asia Provide a Viable Alternative to Capitalism?","authors":"Edoardo Bellando","doi":"10.13169/jglobfaul.9.2.0245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/jglobfaul.9.2.0245","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":167633,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Global Faultlines","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124824004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Neoliberal economic model and austerity have made us helpless in the face of the COVID-19 crisis","authors":"Anonymous","doi":"10.13169/jglobfaul.7.1.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/jglobfaul.7.1.0003","url":null,"abstract":"At the start of 2020, according to all available data, more than ten years after the collapse of the Lehman Brothers sparked the greatest financial crisis and economic downturn since the Great Depression, none of the underlying contradictions of the world economy have been resolved Even before the recent trade tension, growth rates were slipping in parts of the emerging world because of falling capital inflows - following announcements of monetary tightening by leading central banks - which have in some cases already turned negative, compounded by falling commodities prices [ ]came the coronavirus, which has plunged the global economy into a new phase of uncertainty Since emerging in the Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019, the coronavirus disease has spread to almost all countries and territories in the world According to the figures from the US labor department more than 36 million people have filed for benefits since the beginning of March (The Guardian, 14 May 2020)","PeriodicalId":167633,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Global Faultlines","volume":"171 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117294979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“A test of our values”: The Moldovan experience with COVID-19","authors":"Darrell Whitman","doi":"10.13169/jglobfaul.7.1.0091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/jglobfaul.7.1.0091","url":null,"abstract":"Whitman conveys how the COVID-19 pandemic provided him an opportunity to examine spaces where contexts overlap and challenge assumptions about the authenticity and power of liberal governance The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn comparisons with earlier global health crises, most prominently the 1918-1919 \"Spanish flu\" It's a natural response to a substantially unknown and shared threat But these comparisons are of little practical value in this case because the unique character of this threat and its impacts have been experienced differently by people in different societies according to their personal, social and particularly cultural contexts Also emphasized is the role of globalized communications in the response to the pandemic","PeriodicalId":167633,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Global Faultlines","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131107737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Experiences of domestic abuse within the South Asian community","authors":"Mikahil Sulaiman Azad","doi":"10.13169/JGLOBFAUL.8.1.0050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/JGLOBFAUL.8.1.0050","url":null,"abstract":"The Black Lives Matter social movement has once again raised important societal issues around structural and racial inequalities. These issues stem from our political and social structures, which are argued to be a continuance of colonial rule and which allow injustice to amplify. There are many who continue to suffer and are often overlooked, namely victims of domestic abuse within the South Asian community. The Domestic Abuse Bill (DAB) is currently going through the Parliamentary process. It is argued that the DAB is flawed due to an absence of provisions and support for minority ethnic groups, namely the South Asian community. Previous scholarly research has documented the prevalence of honour-based abuse within the South Asian community. Despite the unique nature of abuse, this is not acknowledged in the DAB. The purpose of this paper is to uncover the unique experiences of domestic abuse within the South Asian community by thematically analysing two Domestic Homicide Reviews (DHRs). The findings will be discussed using aspects of ultrarealism, namely special liberty, and benign neglect. These findings will form the basis of reasoning behind amendment suggestions for the DAB. Following the thematic analysis of the two DHRs and critical literature review, three recommendations were formed: 1) Removal of ‘No Recourse to Public Funds’, thus providing funding to all, despite immigration status; 2) Provide education to police officers and GPs regarding domestic abuse and how it often differs depending on culture, namely the South Asian community; and 3) Implement neighbourhood committees across Britain that have a working relationship with the police to identify cases of domestic abuse within this South Asian demographic.","PeriodicalId":167633,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Global Faultlines","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131739836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From securing whiteness to securing publics? Marginalized communities and differential stakeholdership in domestic security in the UK","authors":"Damian Breen","doi":"10.13169/jglobfaul.10.1.0058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/jglobfaul.10.1.0058","url":null,"abstract":"This article develops some conceptual questions about publics and stakeholdership in security which were originally raised in a previous article published by this author. Themes around how racialization has factored into stakeholdership in security for British Muslims are developed here as the foundation for asking questions about publics and their differential relationality to the priorities of security manifested in public-political discourse. Principally the article asks questions about the interests of publics vulnerable to the impacts of knife crime, and also about why protecting these publics has been comparatively under-invested in contrast to Prevent and domestic counter-terror. In drawing this comparison, the article advocates for a reconceptualization of public policy to prioritize securing publics against vulnerability to extreme violence in ways which would provide more equitable stakeholdership in security.","PeriodicalId":167633,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Global Faultlines","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115072903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"State terrorism: are academics deliberately ignoring it?","authors":"Joshua Wrighta","doi":"10.13169/jglobfaul.6.2.0204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/jglobfaul.6.2.0204","url":null,"abstract":"This article seeks to examine whether there is a deliberate ignorance on the part of scholars over the possibility of state terrorism. According to Jackson, Smyth, and Gunning (2009: 78), academics who ignore the “possibility of state terrorism . . . as a field with academic and political authority . . . can be considered . . . conditions that . . . make state terrorism possible.” The argument will incorporate realism, with its focus on state-centric security, with liberalism, with its focus on human security, to identify which theoretical perspective best evaluates whether academics are deliberately ignoring the possibility of state terrorism. It will also draw on interviews conducted with a small group of academics, all specialists in the fields of security, international relations, and intelligence, during the spring of 2019, for the purpose of this research.","PeriodicalId":167633,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Global Faultlines","volume":"142 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123203400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Back Matter","authors":"","doi":"10.13169/jglobfaul.6.1.bm","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/jglobfaul.6.1.bm","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":167633,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Global Faultlines","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122736412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The South China Sea Disputes: Territorial and Maritime Differences Between the Philippines and China","authors":"Liam Reeves","doi":"10.13169/jglobfaul.6.1.0039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/jglobfaul.6.1.0039","url":null,"abstract":"This article will discuss the ongoing dispute in the South China Sea, specifically the legal issues over territorial and maritime disputes between the Philippines and China. The introduction will lay out the timeline of events and geopolitics in the South China Sea specifically related to the Spratly archipelago. In the second section, I will start by discussing the maritime disputes that the 2016 arbitral award tried to address; these will specifically pertain to historic rights and the status of maritime features in the Spratly Island Archipelago. In the third section, I will discuss the hypothetical sovereignty over the Spratly islands. As section 3 finishes, I will conclude with who has the stronger position to claim sovereignty over the Spratlays.","PeriodicalId":167633,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Global Faultlines","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122952734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A historical narrative on pandemic Patterns of behavior and belief","authors":"Gazala Khan, Sazzad Parwez","doi":"10.13169/jglobfaul.9.1.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/jglobfaul.9.1.0021","url":null,"abstract":"Given the fractured reality of pandemic, the people’s history needs to be written and understood. This paper provides a historical narrative on pandemics based on a literature review and makes inferences from the past and present. This narrative also reflects the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in the world and India. The narratives provide a novel perspective to understand public health practices in a global context. It suggests the need for a more synchronized health response in pandemics while highlighting the uncertainties and challenges of using historical diseases as comparisons for the COVID-19 pandemic. The emphasis is on learning from historical evidence and ascertaining how these retrospective diagnoses help make arguments about health and illness in our present moment.","PeriodicalId":167633,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Global Faultlines","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121048062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}