Jonathan Hearn is Professor of Political and Historical Sociology at the University of Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh’s recently released ‘Race Review’ is an intriguing document. Commissioned after the death of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter protests, you would think it would look at present problems with racism at the university. Why bother otherwise, if there are no issues to solve now? The report implies that people
A couple of days ago a colleague alerted me to the opening of an online public consultation regarding proposals made by the Edinburgh Slavery and Colonialism Legacy Review Group, a scheme launched by Edinburgh City Council in 2020 to look at ways the city can acknowledge its historical connections with slavery and colonialism in the
