Madeline-Sophie Abbas Prevent has attracted important local criticisms centring on the contradictions of community engagement being framed by anti-terror measures. Since [...]
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Rethinking Prevent: Adapting strategies from the German model
Necla Acik The UK Prevent duty has dominated preventive counter-terrorism measures in the UK, reducing the role of civil society actors [...]
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Prevent in the arts: a threat to creative freedom and expression
Roaa Ali Is it conceivable that a creative work could be compromised, modified or even censored in today’s Britain? The Prevent [...]
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From ‘extreme’ to ‘controversial’: the Charity Commission, students’ unions and freedom of speech
Simon Perfect would like us to push more than we do. But sadly I’ve got to be risk-averse… It’s led [...]
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When is racism not racism? When you’re blamed for your religion!
Alison Scott-Baumann The language of racism is only ever fully understood by the victim, never by the perpetrator. The person who [...]
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Fundamental British values, religion and inequalities
John Holmwood There is a long shadow cast by the Birmingham Trojan Horse affair of a supposed plot to Islamicise schools [...]
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FOCUS: Feeding The Risk Society: Factory Farming And The Intensification Of Risk
Richie Nimmo The world faces unprecedented challenges in the coming decades, arising from the conjunction of the climate crisis, collapsing biodiversity, [...]
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VIEWPOINT: Now that Grime is “Pop”, When Will the Panic about Drill Music Stop?
Lambros Fatsis Grime was once Britain’s notorious “problem genre”, making headline news and arousing the suspicion of Scotland Yard and Downing [...]
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ON THE FRONTLINE: India and Australia: Votes for crony capitalism
Navtej Purewal The results of the 2019 Australian and Indian general elections, announced within days of one another on May 18th [...]
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POLICY AND POLITICS: ‘I read, write and have meetings’ – what do policy makers really do?
Richard Freeman This section of Discover Society is provided in collaboration with the journal, Policy and Politics. It is curated by Sarah [...]
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