By Isabelle Cheng (University of Portsmouth), Lara Momesso (University of Central Lancashire) and Dafydd Fell (School of Oriental and African Studies) Academics around the world are frequently reminded by their governments, funding agencies, audiences and their own community that scholarship is not only for the pursuit of knowledge but also for making a difference to human life. Claiming that organising a conference can achieve these goals is an overstatement. Yet, hoping to facilitate a close dialogue between scholarship and activism was the rationale behind the design of our recent conference, Rethinking Transnationalism in the Global World: Contested State, Society, Border, and the People
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