Thomas O’Brien The rights of the Māori community in Aotearoa New Zealand have long been an area of contention and political [...]
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Prague Spring controversial even 50 years on
Marek Skovajsa A recent English-language issue of the Czech SociologicalReview/ Sociologický časopis (2018, 54 ) features a symposium, Remembering Prague Spring [...]
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Body-Worn Cameras: A Litmus Test for the Democratic Habitus of Policing
Baris Cayli Jordan Edwards, a 15-year-old African-American, was fatally shot by police officer, Roy Oliver, in Balch Springs, Texas on 29 [...]
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Pervasive Punishment: Making sense of ‘mass supervision’
Fergus McNeill Twenty-four-year-old Lavinia Woodward was an unusual offender. Privileged and/or talented enough to win a place to study medicine at [...]
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Changing the meritocracy debate: what has merit?
Helen Goulden Meritocracy, on the face of it, would initially seem to be one of the least worst ways of formulating [...]
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Big brother: does having older male siblings make us more or less able to cope with stress?
Scott Montgomery It’s a truism that family life, and sibling relationships, can be stressful. But now new light is being [...]
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FOCUS: Brexit, Propaganda and Empire
Muneeb Hafiz The Supermarine Spitfire was unveiled to the British public on Saturday 27th June, 1936 at the RAF-Hendon air-display. Full-scale [...]
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VIEWPOINT: Populism and the spectre of Enoch Powell
Robbie Shilliam The spectre of Enoch Powell has regularly been conjured in debates over multiculturalism, immigration and Brexit, not least of [...]
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ON THE FRONTLINE: Populism and White Nationalism in Europe
Catarina Kinnvall Across Europe we see how an increasing number of people are turning to nationalist, xenophobic, and ultra-conservative far-right movements [...]
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POLICY AND POLITICS: How are social impact bonds created and implemented?
Toby Lowe, Jonathan Kimmitt, Rob Wilson, Mike Martin & Jane Gibbon This section of Discover Society is provided in collaboration with [...]
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