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Recasting and Re-racialising the ‘Third World’ in ‘Emerging Market’ Terms: Understanding Market Emergence in Historical Colonial Perspective

Recasting and Re-racialising the ‘Third World’ in ‘Emerging Market’ Terms: Understanding Market Emergence in Historical Colonial Perspective

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  • September 04, 2018

Lisa Tilley What does it mean for a postcolonial country to be understood as an ‘emerging market’? The term itself has [...]

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How Real Estate Dreams of Forever

How Real Estate Dreams of Forever

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  • September 04, 2018

Alexia Yates ‘Safe as houses.’ ‘Buy land - they’re not making any more.’ ‘The best investment on Earth is earth.’ Truisms [...]

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How Turkey’s Zakat Could Help Improve Global Humanitarian Aid

How Turkey’s Zakat Could Help Improve Global Humanitarian Aid

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  • September 04, 2018

Eric Van Orman According to the United Nation, the problems of people across the world are getting quantifiably worse.  While leading [...]

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Border Fog: Brexit’s cloud of assumptions about the Irish Border

Border Fog: Brexit’s cloud of assumptions about the Irish Border

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  • September 04, 2018

Collin Murray The Brexit debate has long been sustained by supposed facts, shorn of context, but delivered with as much authority [...]

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Norway’s EU relationship – some possible lessons for the UK

Norway’s EU relationship – some possible lessons for the UK

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  • September 04, 2018

John Erik Fossum Tight economic, cultural and political bonds tie the UK and Norway together, and Norway’s model of EU [...]

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What is the “right” amount of panic for women in public?

What is the “right” amount of panic for women in public?

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  • September 04, 2018

Fiona Vera-Gray The past six months have seen an unprecedented rise in awareness of the extent of the sexual harassment of [...]

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I’m the root of all that’s evil, but you can call me selfie

I’m the root of all that’s evil, but you can call me selfie

  • By discoversociety
  • September 04, 2018

Katrin Tiidenberg Selfies have been getting a lot of attention, too much in some people’s opinion. Research into people’s selfie practices [...]

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White British Names? Welsh names are as ‘Othered’ as those of migrants in the UK context

White British Names? Welsh names are as ‘Othered’ as those of migrants in the UK context

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  • September 04, 2018

Sara Wheeler “Families with different surnames may be asked questions to establish their relationship. Thank you” (The Home Office) It was with [...]

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Circumnavigating the past, foreclosing the future: commemoration of the radical past in the amnesiac present

Circumnavigating the past, foreclosing the future: commemoration of the radical past in the amnesiac present

  • By discoversociety
  • September 04, 2018

Christian Garland “Don’t start from the good old things, but the bad new ones” (Brecht) Benjamin’s maxim that nothing that has ever happened [...]

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Boris the Bully

Boris the Bully

  • By discoversociety
  • August 14, 2018

Amina Shareef In his weekly column appearing in the Daily Telegraph on August 5, Boris Johnson denounced the full burka-ban [...]

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