Turning 21 in Chongqing
Phoenix Woolnough narrates her experience of becoming 21 in Chongqing, China.
Phoenix Woolnough
Making it to the Mainland: Solo in Shanghai
Phoenix Woolnough details her experience of travelling to Mainland China for the first time.
Finding a home in Hong Kong
Phoenix Woolnough explores what it meant to move abroad to Hong Kong for a year.
‘A crisis on top of multiple crises’: The politics behind humanitarian aid in Syria
Phoenix Woolnough explores the complex political dynamics underpinning the failure of humanitarian assistance in Syria following the recent earthquakes.
‘Don’t diversify, decolonise’: How students are at the forefront of demands for educational reform
Phoenix Woolnough details the defiant demands of students in English Higher Education institutions amidst the decolonisation movement – a progressive force which illuminates and challenges the endemic racism of the…
The UN Security Council: Illegitimate, inefficient, and incapable of reform?
Phoenix Woolnough discusses the problematic positionality of the United Nations Security Council in contemporary international governance, considering the desirability and viability of potential reform.
Cambodia’s curse: Pol Pot’s reign of terror
Phoenix Woolnough traces Cambodia’s harrowing experience of violence and authoritarianism following the Second World War, challenging a simplistic rendering of the Cold War period.
Geographies of violence: The intersection of race and class in France’s banlieues
Phoenix Woolnough explores the politics of race and class in France’s banlieues. As sites of social segregation and violence, these areas underscore the country’s pervasive hierarchies and institutional discrimination.
‘A bundle of silences’: The power of history-teaching
Phoenix Woolnough explores the inherently political practice of history-teaching in British schools – one that is intertwined with questions of power, exclusion, and epistemic domination.
IQ testing’s problematic past
Phoenix Woolnough unearths the dark history of IQ testing by focusing on its intersection with eugenicist politics and multi-layered repression in the United States.