Utsa Mukherjee 6th September 2018 will go down the annals of history as a watershed moment for India and for the [...]
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FOCUS: Colonial Debts, Imperial Insolvencies, Extractive Nostalgias
Clea Bourne, Paul Gilbert, Max Haiven and Johnna Montgomerie This special section of Discover Society emerges from a two-day gathering of [...]
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VIEWPOINT: Is Russian Money in London Silencing Us?
Elisabeth Schimpfössl Thanks to notoriously strict libel laws in the UK and powerful image campaigns, the superrich not only silence researchers [...]
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On The Frontline: The rise of hate speech and racism on social media
Luiz Valério P. Trindade Whilst social media platforms have become an increasingly ubiquitous presence in people’s lives across the globe within [...]
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Policy and Politics: Do candidates from non-profit organisations who adopt party political values improve their chances of electoral success?
Oto Potluka and Marybel Perez This section of Discover Society is provided in collaboration with the journal, Policy and Politics. It is [...]
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When monetary coloniality meets 21st century finance: Development in the franc zone
Vincent Guermond and Ndongo Samba Sylla In monetary and financial matters, colonial relationships continue to be alive in some parts of [...]
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Recasting and Re-racialising the ‘Third World’ in ‘Emerging Market’ Terms: Understanding Market Emergence in Historical Colonial Perspective
Lisa Tilley What does it mean for a postcolonial country to be understood as an ‘emerging market’? The term itself has [...]
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How Real Estate Dreams of Forever
Alexia Yates ‘Safe as houses.’ ‘Buy land - they’re not making any more.’ ‘The best investment on Earth is earth.’ Truisms [...]
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How Turkey’s Zakat Could Help Improve Global Humanitarian Aid
Eric Van Orman According to the United Nation, the problems of people across the world are getting quantifiably worse. While leading [...]
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Border Fog: Brexit’s cloud of assumptions about the Irish Border
Collin Murray The Brexit debate has long been sustained by supposed facts, shorn of context, but delivered with as much authority [...]
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