When All Else Fails: The Ethics of Resistance to State Injustice, by Jason Brennan Lisa Mckenzie finds a challenging but essential piece of reading in an age of failing political systems and distrustful citizens By Lisa Mckenzie 10 January
Urban Rage: The Revolt of the Excluded, by Mustafa Dike? Lisa Mckenzie on a study about taking one of our strongest emotions to the streets By Lisa Mckenzie 4 January
Toby Young OfS appointment epitomises how the privileged seldom fail The appointment of Young to the OfS board is upsetting but unsurprising, says Lisa Mckenzie By Lisa Mckenzie 3 January
The middle-class academic elite is totally out of touch Universities must support and help the next generation of working-class researchers come through academia, says Lisa Mckenzie By Lisa Mckenzie 2 September
Big Capital: Who Is London For?, by Anna Minton Lisa Mckenzie on the property speculation that extracts profit from a global city by pushing out the working classes By Lisa Mckenzie 13 July
Why I＊ve read ＆The Road to Wigan Pier＊ every year since 2001 Lisa Mckenzie finds a new lesson in Orwell's classic every time she reads it 每 and this year, it concerns some of her fellow scholars By Lisa Mckenzie 1 June
The Financial Diaries: How American Families Cope in a World of Uncertainty, by Jonathan Morduch and Rachel Schneider Lisa Mckenzie heaps praise on a study that records the emotional costs of complicated household budgets By Lisa Mckenzie 4 May
The New Minority: White Working Class Politics in an Age of Immigration and Inequality, by Justin Gest This study shines a valuable spotlight on what UK and US media and politicians have began to call ＆the left behind＊, says Lisa Mckenzie By Lisa Mckenzie 23 February
The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia, by Mary M. Talbot and Brian Talbot Lisa Mckenzie admires the powerful use of the graphic novel to tell the story of Louise Michel, a 19th-century revolutionary feminist By Lisa Mckenzie 15 September
EU referendum: many don＊t care what happens next, they just wanted change For many working-class people, this was a referendum not on the EU but on their quality of life, writes Lisa Mckenzie By Lisa Mckenzie 24 June
Hunger Pains: Life inside Foodbank Britain, by Kayleigh Garthwaite Book of the week: Why are those pushed into food poverty then stigmatised and shamed, asks Lisa Mckenzie By Lisa Mckenzie 16 June
Migrant Women＊s Voices: Talking About Life and Work in the UK Since 1945, by Linda McDowell Lisa Mckenzie on a study of the personal stories of female workers in different industries and the challenges they faced By Lisa Mckenzie 19 May
We Shall Not Be Moved: How Liverpool＊s Working Class Fought Redundancies, Closures and Cuts in the Age of Thatcher, by Brian Marren Scousers＊ acts of resilience are celebrated in a study of the city＊s struggles, says Lisa Mckenzie By Lisa Mckenzie 31 March
Lisa Mckenzie on the day she was arrested Anarchist academic reflects on what her recent brush with the law says about threats to academic freedom By Lisa Mckenzie 26 November
Lisa Mckenzie: who would be a working-class woman in academia? Even in the academy, your class background will always be a factor in how you are seen, says LSE＊s Lisa Mckenzie By Lisa Mckenzie 8 October
addicted. pregnant. poor, by Kelly Ray Knight Lisa Mckenzie on a sobering American ethnography written with understanding and respect By Lisa Mckenzie 1 October
Why I am protesting against the Jack the Ripper Museum The ＆first women＊s museum in the UK＊ turned out to be dedicated to Jack the Ripper. ＆Activist academic＊ Lisa Mckenzie wants scholars to protest By Lisa Mckenzie 5 August
