Linsey McGoey Jana Bacevic’s compelling commentary for Discover Society on the politics of nudging identifies a number of key shifts in [...]
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Human rights and the need for a new mode of critical engagement with China
Anonymous Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in January, the Chinese one-party state has faced sustained criticism in international media [...]
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Othering the Virus
Marius Meinhof Europe seems to be shaken by the Covid-19 pandemic. Germany does not contain centres of the outbreak, but has [...]
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Radical uncertainty, sociology and the social impacts of pandemic preparedness on citizens
Elisa Pieri The current outbreak of COVID-19 is a stark reminder of our permanent exposure to risk of pandemic outbreaks. To [...]
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The breakdown of European assumptions – dispatches from Italy
Matias Nestore As I sit down to write this piece, in my family home in the Orcia valley, Italy is entering [...]
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Corona, Lockdowns, and civil liberties: why participation and debate is important
Mario Bisiada The paradox of these days is that, while much of Europe has ground to a halt and authorities urge [...]
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No such thing as society? Liberal paternalism, politics of expertise, and the Corona crisis
Jana Bacevic In an interview in 1987, Margaret Thatcher famously responded: “There is no such thing as society...there are individual [...]
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Covid-19: threats and opportunities
Alyson Learmonth On the 4th March this year I returned from 4 weeks in rural Scotland, where I had very limited [...]
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A Market for Values in a Troubled World
Marco Senatore Due to COVID-19 we are forced to acknowledge the importance of human life as the basic, fundamental value that [...]
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RAPID RESPONSE COVID-19
Discover Society was set up six-years ago as a free online monthly magazine of social research, policy analysis and critical [...]
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