Self and Society

MICHAEL AMHERST is the author of Go the Way Your Blood Beats, for which he received an award from Arts Council England and won the 2019 Stonewall Israel Fishman Award for Non-Fiction. His fiction has been longlisted for the BBC's Opening Lines and the Bath Short Story Prize, shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, and published in The White Review. He is a member of Writing West Midlands' Room 204 scheme. TARA MCEVOY is a press officer with Pushkin Press in London. She recently graduated with a PhD in English Literature from Queen's University Belfast, and edits Belfast-based magazine The Tangerine. Her work has been published in the TLS, Vogue, The Observer, The Guardian, The Irish Times, and The Stinging Fly. DAVID CRANE is an international development consultant, having recently graduated with an MSc in Development Studies. He writes articles and essays on a variety of topics, primarily African economic and political history, conflict and stability, and forced migration. NICK INMAN is an author, translator, and journalist who writes mainly about Spain and France (where he lives). In a former life, he was an editor for Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness Travel Guides. His books include Politipedia and, most recently, A Guide to Mystical France.  BENINIO MCDONOUGH-TRANZA recently completed an MA in Global History. His research focuses on the intellectual history of European imperialism, and his first academic article is forthcoming in The Victorian Review. His writing has appeared in New Statesman, Hektoen International, The New Federalist, and Earth Island Journal.