Zeena Oberoi It was getting dark as I hurried to the front door of a small corner apartment, hoping I was [...]
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Policy and Politics: One of Us? How Welfare States Help Shape Immigrant Integration
Anthony Kevins and Kees van Kersbergen This section of Discover Society is provided in collaboration with the journal, Policy and Politics. It [...]
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The UN/NATO, Academia and Gender Policies in Peace Operations
Velomahanina Tahinjanahary Razakamaharavo Gender mainstreaming has become a flagship policy within UN and NATO peace operations. Feminist movements and the Security [...]
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The costs of treating urban violence as a ‘public health’ problem
Malte Riemann Public-health-based approaches to violent crime prevention are increasingly endorsed by governmental agencies in the UK, in an attempt [...]
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Complex Causes: The Dog-Whistle Politics of Austerity
Alan Connolly Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, James Brokenshire, recently denied that UK government policies are linked [...]
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How China is driving America’s new Africa strategy
Seth Schindler Relations between the U.S. and many African countries reached a low point during Donald Trump’s first two years [...]
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Navigating the ‘Decolonising’ process: Avoiding pitfalls and some Do’s and Don’t’s
Harshad Keval Decolonising the University and / or decolonising the curriculum (DTU/C) has come to occupy a contested space in recent [...]
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Caribbean Cultural Heritage Should Not Be Confined to the Plantation
Lauren Johnson The Sunbury Plantation House in Barbados; The Mourne Coubaril estate in Saint Lucia; the Maima-Seville Heritage Park in [...]
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Victims, saviours or villains? Children in popular climate imaginaries
Catherine Walker Fifteen-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg pulls no punches in calling out the world’s leaders on their inaction on climate [...]
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Reflections on Recent Parliamentary Votes: Back to the Future for Theresa May?
Alex De Ruyter The Centre for Brexit Studies was established at Birmingham City University in February 2017, in order to [...]
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