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Some Run for Office, Others Run for the Hills: The Extreme-Right, Racism and Anti-Government Enmity in America

Some Run for Office, Others Run for the Hills: The Extreme-Right, Racism and Anti-Government Enmity in America

  • By discoversociety
  • September 02, 2014

Image: Frazier Glenn Miller Aaron Winter (UEL)   Much recent discussion has focused on the rise of what has been termed the far- [...]

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Ageing, Migration and Intergenerational Relations in Rural China

Ageing, Migration and Intergenerational Relations in Rural China

  • By discoversociety
  • September 02, 2014

Jieyu Liu (SOAS, University of London)   While population ageing is now a common feature of many societies, research has tended to [...]

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Robbing the People’s Bank: The plight of the Orang Asli at Tasik Chini, Pahang Malaysia

Robbing the People’s Bank: The plight of the Orang Asli at Tasik Chini, Pahang Malaysia

  • By discoversociety
  • September 02, 2014

Jonathan Parker and Sara Ashencaen Crabtree (University of Bournemouth)   Malaysia’s drive to become a ‘developed nation’ by 2020 is unwittingly devastating [...]

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Negotiating place: the challenge of inclusive design

Negotiating place: the challenge of inclusive design

  • By discoversociety
  • September 02, 2014

Children playing in the water at Woolwich Squares, SE London. Image: Charlotte Bates Charlotte Bates, Goldsmiths, University of London   "In my more [...]

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Primary mathematics – who is it for?

Primary mathematics – who is it for?

  • By discoversociety
  • September 02, 2014

Rebecca Turvill (Brunel University)   As I sat in my kitchen re-editing an article about ‘number sense’ in young children I heard [...]

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Black Country Pubs and all that jazz!

Black Country Pubs and all that jazz!

  • By discoversociety
  • September 02, 2014

Image: The Degvilles David Danks December 1952.  I am seven years old. It is a freezing cold mid-winter’s day and whilst [...]

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Let the Elders Speak

Let the Elders Speak

  • By discoversociety
  • September 02, 2014

Gwen Riley Jones   The selection of images in this article is from a Heritage Lottery funded project, Let The Elders Speak, [...]

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Focus: Blaming the Victim – Torture and the New Politics of Exclusion

Focus: Blaming the Victim – Torture and the New Politics of Exclusion

  • By discoversociety
  • August 05, 2014

Image from ‘Torture survivors failed by unfair detention and fast track processes’ Neil Serougi, Freedom from Torture   For most of us, torture [...]

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Viewpoint: Social Movements and Neoliberalism

Viewpoint: Social Movements and Neoliberalism

  • By discoversociety
  • August 05, 2014

Laurence Cox (National University of Ireland, Maynooth) and Alf Gunvald Nilsen (University of Bergen)    ”Fight, fight! Water is a human right!” This [...]

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On the Frontline: The Architectural Policing of Social Boundaries

On the Frontline: The Architectural Policing of Social Boundaries

  • By discoversociety
  • August 05, 2014

Michael Shea, UCL       The bleak, concrete architecture of Euston station has become painfully familiar to me. As a commuter, I [...]

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