Useful reading

To help you best prepare for your degree, your Programme Director has identified some pre-reading materials which you may want to engage with

Please note that each course that you study will have required and recommended weekly readings, as well as an extensive bibliography of further reading. 

Here is a brief overview that introduces some of the late bell hooks’s ideas for social justice. Many of these ideas are relevant to our courses across the programme and this short article is an accessible primer to her contributions to debates around social justice:

This interview with political philosopher Nancy Fraser will help you to prepare for your studies by introducing you to a framework for conceptualising social justice (we will draw on this in much more depth on the semester 1 compulsory course, Theories and Politics of Social Justice).