Amit Singh Over recent years there has been a growing interest in what has come to be known as “decolonizing [...]
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POLICY AND POLITICS: Why Nudge Sometimes Fails
Tom Entwistle This section of Discover Society is provided in collaboration with the journal, Policy and Politics. It is curated by Sarah [...]
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Post-‘refugee crisis’ social media: the unbearable lightness of sharing racist posts
Ozge Ozduzen and Umut Korkut There is rampant racism on social media platforms in the so-called post-refugee crisis period (Ozduzen et [...]
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How can youth empowerment and a sense of belonging benefit from creative arts?
Maggie Laidlaw, Ilona van Breugel, Eleonora Psenner and Francesca Lori Creativity has a universal language that crosses all borders. It teases [...]
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Refugee Integration in Europe: Does Belonging Matter?
Susan Beth Rottmann “I don’t allow the negative stuff to affect me and cause me an internal problem, but I [...]
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Volunteering in the super-diverse city: How young urban volunteers negotiate belonging
Astrid Mattes, Marie Lehner, Ilona van Breugel, and Ursula Reeger Volunteering is widely understood to foster community building, and therefore it [...]
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Beyond appearances: negotiating discourse and policies on diversity in Scotland and South Tyrol
Marcus Nicolson and Andrea Carlà Addressing diversity (whether cultural, racial, religious, or linguistic) is an issue faced not only by nation-states, [...]
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Ways out from the social life of mass and excess consumption?
Magnus Boström Mass and excess consumption permeate social life in developed welfare countries. All of us living in these societies are [...]
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Youth Mobility Scheme: Panacea or unfolding crisis for Hong Kongese without British National (Overseas) status?
Elsa Oommen British National (Overseas) status was created in July 1987, ten years before the sovereignty of Hong Kong was [...]
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Sitting down in the distant past to discover society: a case for Foucault’s ‘history of the present’
Susan Marie Martin An archaeologist finds artefacts in situ and she has in hand clues about the context in which they [...]
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