Sarah Irving The Paris attacks and Binyamin Netanyahu's use of them to encourage European Jews to find 'refuge' in Israel; charges [...]
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All Our Welfare
Peter Beresford All Our Welfare sets out to combine an academic analysis of the welfare state, past, present and future, with [...]
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How social wealth funds can reduce inequality
Stewart Lansley Political leaders, national and global, continue to declare verbal war on growing inequality. Conservatives should be 'warriors for the [...]
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UK social science: past imperfect, future tense
David Walker Social science in the UK has virtually no past. The 50th anniversary of the ESRC passed a few months [...]
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Is there any justification for academic social science?
Martyn Hammersley In his recent book about the ESRC, David Walker laments the fact that the original vision of its early [...]
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The Emperor Comes to Town Again: Academies and their Sponsors
Kirsty Morrin “"But he hasn't got anything on!" the whole town cried out at last.” (Hans Christian Andersen, 1837, Jean Hersholt [...]
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Small Islands, Big Frontiers
Philip Nanton What can tiny Caribbean islands that contain a few hundred people say to the globalised world? I argue here [...]
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Focus: Re-Thinking Noncitizenship
Katherine Tonkiss and Tendayi Bloom This special section of Discover Society with articles on the topic of ‘non-citizenship’ has been edited [...]
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On the Frontline: Protesting as Noncitizens – Refugee Protest Camps in Europe
Heather Johnson “We do not talk about facilities, about own place, but about legal status and about our struggle. This is [...]
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Viewpoint: Vision Reconfiguration – statelessness as forced displacement
Kristy A. Belton Tell me when it was you decided where to be born. Tell me when it was you decided [...]
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