Dalia Gebrial and Chi Chi Shi We are living in a global moment of anti-racist student resistance. From Missouri to South [...]
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From mainstream politics to social movements: Greece in between austerity and hope.
Spyros Themelis For ordinary Greeks, living in extreme austerity leaves little room for optimism. After six years of brutal sacrifices, hope [...]
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Moral Economies of Debt in the Greek Financial Crisis
Johnna Montgomerie As the Greek crisis unfolds it exposes key sites of financial power within contemporary capitalism. In particular the role [...]
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Social Media on Jordanian Radio: Facebook Counts and Link-Up Messages
Jona Fras With the political changes across the Arabic-speaking world from 2011 onward, there have been many discussions about the potential [...]
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Through a glass, darkly: Why a social science perspective suggests we need to radically revise climate change communication
Matt Adams ‘The environmental challenges that confront society are unprecedented and staggering in their scope, pace and complexity. Unless we reframe [...]
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Stories of Access in Higher Education: a triumph (or failure) of hope over experience?
Susan Oman, Jon Rainford, Hilary Stewart Getting ‘in’ and getting ‘on’ in Higher Education (HE) are two issues that are often [...]
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Public Criminology, the Quantitative Skills Gap and Pedagogic Reform: Some Reflections
John Martyn Chamberlain I have been preoccupied lately with how best to ensure that the next generation of criminologists in the [...]
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Focus: Compassionate Conservatism?
Danny Dorling “It was the Conservatives who first protected working people in the mills; it was the Conservatives who took a [...]
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Viewpoint: The world gets rough and tough – the right response to the UK’s energy policies
Natalie Bennett In Paris at a European Green Party conference on fossil fuel divestment in September, I had the chance to [...]
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On the Frontline: Asylum, welfare and work
Lucy Mayblin Successive UK governments over the past 20 years have explicitly represented working as a virtuous activity which provides [...]
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