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Being young in an uncaring city: the personal and the political in the lives of South Africa’s urban young people

Being young in an uncaring city: the personal and the political in the lives of South Africa’s urban young people

  • By discoversociety
  • April 01, 2020

Thea Shahrokh and Joanna Wheeler Being young in Cape Town in the context of townships and informal settlements means navigating a [...]

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The weight of feelings: Khartoum’s revolutionary moment

The weight of feelings: Khartoum’s revolutionary moment

  • By discoversociety
  • April 01, 2020

Image Credit: A sit-in in Khartoum. Photo by Zaher Omareen Sara Abbas In December 2018, Sudan was gripped by revolution. The [...]

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‘Chai-activism’: reclaiming rights to the city one cup of tea at a time

‘Chai-activism’: reclaiming rights to the city one cup of tea at a time

  • By discoversociety
  • April 01, 2020

Naaz Rashid During a recent trip to Bangladesh, a student from the University of Dhaka was raped close to where I [...]

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Young and obese: how will you manage physically in middle age and beyond?

Young and obese: how will you manage physically in middle age and beyond?

  • By discoversociety
  • April 01, 2020

Snehal Pinto Pereira and Nina Rogers Being obese isn’t good for us - that much we know. Among other things, if [...]

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Turning the Gaze upon Power: Refusal as research in/to and against the EU border regime

Turning the Gaze upon Power: Refusal as research in/to and against the EU border regime

  • By discoversociety
  • April 01, 2020

Aila Spathopoulou and Isabel Meier When Mira arrived in Berlin in 2015 to apply for asylum, and saw how bad the [...]

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Ritualizing Dissent: Critical Voices as Normalized Bureaucratic Processes in Military and Intelligence Agencies

Ritualizing Dissent: Critical Voices as Normalized Bureaucratic Processes in Military and Intelligence Agencies

  • By discoversociety
  • April 01, 2020

David Price and Roberto J. González For two decades we have critically studied various roles played by social scientists working for [...]

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(Are you) OK Boomer? Discursive Constructions of Millennials & Generation through COVID-19

(Are you) OK Boomer? Discursive Constructions of Millennials & Generation through COVID-19

  • By discoversociety
  • March 31, 2020

Kim Allen, Kirsty Finn, Nicola Ingram As COVID-19 grips the world, the UK government have been labelled as slow to respond; [...]

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Europe’s refugee camps are unsafe and must close

Europe’s refugee camps are unsafe and must close

  • By discoversociety
  • March 31, 2020

Nasar Meer In all the risk and uncertainty accompanying Covid-19, it is easy to forget safety is a relative concept. For [...]

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When Doctors die

When Doctors die

  • By discoversociety
  • March 30, 2020

Yasmin Gunaratnam “Most of my dad’s time was dedicated towards his family, and the rest of that time was dedicated towards [...]

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Is COVID-19 worsening the already fraught situation in Kashmir?

Is COVID-19 worsening the already fraught situation in Kashmir?

  • By discoversociety
  • March 30, 2020

Leoni Connah At the time of writing, 634,835 people have been confirmed to have Covid-19 also known as “Coronavirus”. 29,957 deaths [...]

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