‘The End of the Global’ features a collection of papers presented at the first ‘DEN

International Student Conference’ in 2017. This publication is one of many projects

that the Democratic Education Network (DEN) has been responsible for since its

launch in 2016, within the department of Politics and International Relations at

the University of Westminster. In addition to supporting various other initiatives,

DEN encourages and inspires students to research, get involved in student-led

workshops, and publish magazines and journals. It hopes to increase our knowledge

about how to open up deliberative and empowering spaces for students,

and how to maximise the impact of their projects on other students’ experience.

This book is a result of eclectic ideas and hard work put in by many students, and

covers the views of student authors on various economic, political and social crises

that shape our world today. We hope that we have taken an important step in

achieving the aims of DEN through encouraging students to believe in themselves

and push the boundaries of imagination and possibility.

“Education should not only be about knowledge gathering, skills enhancement and degree acquisition,

but be a transformative life experience. If students go away with more condence,

more humility, and better equipped to deal with the various challenges and opportunities that

the world around them oers, we would have succeeded as educationists.”

Prof. Dibyesh Anand

Head of the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Westminster

“This book is produced by some of the students active in the ‘Democratic Education Network’. It

is essentially a collective work of the former and present students in the department to learn and

explore their own world independently.”

Dr. Farhang Morady

Academic Coordinator of DEN, University of Westminster