Diane Reay, University of Cambridge For the first decade of the 2000s I was a member of FAAB - Feminists against [...]
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THE CULTURE WARS OVER ENGLISH SCHOOLS
Nick Stevenson, University of Nottingham When progressive rock band Pink Floyd released their song ‘Another Brick in the Wall’ in 1979 [...]
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WHY ONLINE PRIVACY IS NOT DEAD: NEGOTIATION AND CONFLICT IN SOCIAL MEDIA
Paola Tubaro, University of Greenwich The "end of privacy" is a recurring theme in current political and scientific debates about the [...]
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MANUFACTURING MANAGEMENT CELEBRITY
Timothy Clarke, Pojanath Bhatanacharoen and David Greatbatch, University of Durham In 1995 Business Week published an exposé into an operation to [...]
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MARK DUGGAN AND BRITAIN’S POST-COLONIAL POLITICS OF DEATH
Malcolm James, City University, London About two years ago, I was set to jump through one of the many hoops that [...]
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THE TYRANNIES OF COLLABORATIVE CONSUMPTION
Michael O’Regan, Institute for Tourism Studies, Macau We are told we are undergoing a rapid explosion in sharing, bartering, lending, trading, [...]
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URBAN LIFE AND MENTAL HEALTH: RE-VISITING POLITICS, SOCIETY AND BIOLOGY
Des Fitzgerald, Nikolas Rose, and Ilina Singh, King’s College London What can biological research contribute to the study of society? What [...]
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Moral Panics and Youth Crime – Where are the Girls?
Jackie Turton, Essex University History reveals that moral panics (Cohen, 2011) about hooligans, gangs and uncontrolled youth, focussed attention on young [...]
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Poverty fifty years on — but what IS poverty?
John Veit-Wilson, Newcastle University. Listening to government politicians talking about poverty is like hearing 18th century doctors discuss medicine — they [...]
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Focus: C is for complexity. Why genetics doesn’t outweigh teaching
Maurizio Meloni, University of Nottingham “There is no escape from the [...]
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