Charlie Richards

1 Introduction Fake Friend: Annie thinks she is friends with Betty. She thinks this because her relationship with Betty closely resembles a friendship: it is constituted by a range of friendship-apt acts. However, Betty does not consider Annie a friend: she does not value Annie as a particular, nor does she value their relationship for its own sake (if at all). Instead, Betty only pretends that she values her relationship with Annie in this way.

A runner-up finalist entry to the first IJMR Young Research Writer award. In this, the author argues the case for applying an innovative ethnographic-based methodology to answer the question 'How do we understand how people have come to be doing what they are doing?' The biography of respondents is highlighted as being essential for research - pasts must be considered as well the present.

A case against “no-platforming” and other trans-legal forms of pursuing equality Proponents of social justice in the 21st century seem to have taken on a very different mission statement than their predecessors. Whereas the movements of Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, and the Suffragettes sought equality before the law, more recent social justice movements appear to be focused on recalibrating society in a different, more far-reaching sense.