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Lessons from academic careers

Lessons from academic careers

  • By discoversociety
  • May 06, 2020

Graham Crow A successful career can take many forms, and there are always lessons to be learned through studying people’s achievements. [...]

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‘Here comes the feminist’: Tackling gender inequality through sport in Brazil

‘Here comes the feminist’: Tackling gender inequality through sport in Brazil

  • By discoversociety
  • May 06, 2020

Eva Soares Moura Sport, and particularly football, is a context in which specific ‘masculine’ attributes are valued and reproduced, but in [...]

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The fight against dementia: the role of the brain’s resilience

The fight against dementia: the role of the brain’s resilience

  • By discoversociety
  • May 06, 2020

Amongst the chronic conditions that threaten the independence or successful ageing, dementia is positioned as one of the most significant [...]

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Don’t judge a book by its cover? The value of looking closely at anti-austerity activist culture

Don’t judge a book by its cover? The value of looking closely at anti-austerity activist culture

  • By discoversociety
  • May 06, 2020

Emma Craddock The perennial cornflower is a violet rhizomatous plant with thistle-like flower-heads. Despite its delicate appearance, the flower is enduring, [...]

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Love Brighton, hate racism: Different understandings of ‘diversity’

Love Brighton, hate racism: Different understandings of ‘diversity’

  • By discoversociety
  • May 06, 2020

Caterina Mazzilli Cities have what geographer Doreen Massey (1991) defines as “a character of their own”: a set of physical and [...]

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The virus is the police

The virus is the police

  • By discoversociety
  • May 05, 2020

James Trafford  As Britain prepared for lockdown amidst a discourse underpinned by militarised nationalism, we witnessed calls for hugely expanded police [...]

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Time to end the silence – racism in prisons during COVID-19

Time to end the silence – racism in prisons during COVID-19

  • By discoversociety
  • May 05, 2020

Raheel Mohammed In ‘normal times’, the state sanctioned racism that exists in prisons has meant black and brown people’s basic rights [...]

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Coronavirus and Class Struggle, Education and Beyond: A Call to Action

Coronavirus and Class Struggle, Education and Beyond: A Call to Action

  • By discoversociety
  • May 04, 2020

Carli Rowell Much has been written about the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic upon various facets of everyday social life [...]

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In the time of Covid – ‘April is the cruellest month’

In the time of Covid – ‘April is the cruellest month’

  • By discoversociety
  • May 04, 2020

David Clark TS Eliot’s chilling start to The Waste Land has deep resonance in the time of COVID-19. We seem to [...]

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The global city and its underside: COVID-19 in Moscow

The global city and its underside: COVID-19 in Moscow

  • By discoversociety
  • May 03, 2020

Anni Kangas and Zarnigor Omonillaeva About one thousand Central Asian citizens were stranded at Moscow’s international airports, in mid-March, as states [...]

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