Volume 8:
Special Issue
July 2025
Chief Editors
Mitchell Bowcock
Antonia Giles
Executive Board
Ella Logan-Wilson
Edward Teather
Farida Hassan
​Editorial Board
Ellen Jarrett
Catlin Reid
Otis Bakker
Megan Elain
Benjamin Woolfe
Izzie Goulding
Meera Vinesh
Content warning: Some of our essays contain details of physical abuse that some readers may find distressing.
Disclaimer: All essays have been selected based on quality of research, standard of presentation, and readable engagement. The views expressed in the essays do not reflect those of Juncture, The University of Manchester School of Social Sciences, or the University of Manchester.
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We do not intend to add to nor detract from the information or analysis provided in the essays in any capacity. The cover photos have been chosen by the Juncture Editorial Board based solely on aesthetic suitability.​
Table of Contents
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Chanelle Patterson
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Gavin Gao
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Inaya Tul-Kubra Zia
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Isabella Slater
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Jennifer Rodrigues
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Jessica Narramore
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Ahmad Shahrun Hakim Bin Shaharuddin
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Luke Harper Waller
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Maha Shaikh
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Martha Hedges
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Nathan Bird
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Roshaney Aftab
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Saanvi Sachdev
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Sean Cadwallader
Made possible by the University of Manchester School of Social Sciences
Challenging Traditional Political Participation: Gender and Identity in the Modern Era
Chanelle Patterson
2nd Year Essay
BA (Hons) Social Sciences
Altruistic Aid or Neocolonialism? How Practices of International Development Worsen Poverty and Restrict the Autonomy of Developing Countries
Gavin Gao
2nd Year Essay
BA (Hons) Politics & Modern History
The Distinct Wrong of Colonialism: A Political-Psychological Analysis of Alien Rule and Structural Injustice
Inaya Tul-Kubra Zia
1st Year Essay
BA Politics, Philosophy, & Economics
Instagram Feminism and Feminist Identity: An Ethnographic Study of Seven Women
Isabella Slater
3rd Year Essay
BSocSc (Hons) Politics and International Relations
​‘Comfort Women’ and the Politics of Injury:
Gendered and Colonial Violence in War
Jennifer Rodrigues
3rd Year Essay
BA (Hons) Politics, Philosophy, & Economics
Beyond Maximisation: Refining the Effectiveness Principle for Global Prioritisation
Jessica Narramore
3rd Year Essay
BSocSc (Hons) Politics and International Relations
Is it possible to arrive at an objective understanding of what terrorism is and which groups might be characterised as terrorists?
Ahmad Shahrun Hakim Bin Shaharuddin
1st Year Essay
BA (Hons) Economics
Education Over Prohibition: Freedom of Speech, Speech-Act Theory, and the Role of Authority in the Silencing of Women by Pornography
Luke Harper Waller
2nd Year Essay
BA (Hons) Social Sciences
‘Männerparteien’? Understanding the gender gap in support for the populist radical right
Maha Shaikh
2nd Year Essay
BSocSc (Hons) Politics and International Relations
Shifting Paradigms in the Anthropocene: An analysis of sustainable alternatives to development in an urgent environmental crisis
Martha Hedges
2nd Year Essay
BSocSc(Hons) Politics and International Relations
U.S. Sanctions on Cuba Recognising the Genocidal Potential of Economic Warfare
Nathan Bird
3rd Year Essay
BA (Hons) Politics and Modern History
Institutionalised human rights as a secular regime: a framework that depoliticises human rights practice
Roshaney Aftab
3rd Year Essay
BSocSc (Hons) Politics and International Relations
Modi, Hindu Nationalism, and the Personalisation of Electoral Politics in India
Saanvi Sachdev
3rd Year Essay
BSocSc (Hons) Politics and International Relations
Do we need institutionalised party systems for democratic consolidation?
Sean Cadwallader
3rd Year Essay
BSocSc (Hons) Politics and International Relations
