Patricia Lorenzoni In March of this year, in the solitariness of a Rio apartment during lockdown, philosopher Marcia Cavalcante Schuback gave [...]
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FOCUS: Doing Gender & Racial Justice After Sexual Violence – The Case of Kobe Bryant
Lisa Kalayji On 26th January, 2020, Kobe Bryant, the storied American basketball player, was killed in a helicopter crash in the [...]
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Viewpoint: ‘White nation’ conservatism
John Holmwood Nick Timothy, the former advisor to Theresa May when she was Minister at the Home Office and then Prime [...]
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ON THE FRONTLINE: The politics of interpreting affect
Deborah Giustini “You need to be able to catch the spirit to communicate this person’s words to another person. It’s like [...]
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Policy and Politics: Government’s social responsibility, citizen satisfaction and trust – in peaceful and turbulent times
Shlomo Mizrahi, Nissim Cohen, and Eran Vigoda-Gadot This section of Discover Society is provided in collaboration with the journal, Policy and Politics. [...]
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White Reconstruction in America: The Rise of Donald Trump’s White Protectionism
Rogers M. Smith and Desmond King Racial divisions define American politics. Decades of declining prejudice centred on racial threats and coyness [...]
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Tom Nairn and Brexit
William Kerr Recently I took the time to read Tom Nairn’s 1977 essay ‘Twilight of the British State’. Doing so, the [...]
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Click here to buy a new currency: Facebook and the future of money
Sherif Youssef Libra – a new digital currency created by Facebook – has garnered significant political and media attention in the last [...]
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Progression or Destruction: Our Choice?
Gordon Pearson Right now, even without the relearning experience of the coronavirus pandemic, humanity would not be in a good place [...]
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Unpacking and undoing ‘the crisis’: database activism for strange times
Melissa Nolas, Christos Varvantakis, Aspa Chalkidou, Alice Corble and Marina Apgar What is the role of social scientists (broadly defined) in [...]
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