Discover Society

Measured – Factual – Critical

  • Home
  • Home
  • Covid-19 Chronicles
  • Focus
  • Viewpoint
  • Articles
  • Frontline
  • Policy & Politics
  • Contact
Refugee Integration in Europe: Does Belonging Matter?

Refugee Integration in Europe: Does Belonging Matter?

  • By discoversociety
  • September 02, 2020

Susan Beth Rottmann “I don’t allow the negative stuff to affect me and cause me an internal problem, but I [...]

Read more
Volunteering in the super-diverse city: How young urban volunteers negotiate belonging

Volunteering in the super-diverse city: How young urban volunteers negotiate belonging

  • By discoversociety
  • September 02, 2020

Astrid Mattes, Marie Lehner, Ilona van Breugel, and Ursula Reeger Volunteering is widely understood to foster community building, and therefore it [...]

Read more
Beyond appearances: negotiating discourse and policies on diversity in Scotland and South Tyrol

Beyond appearances: negotiating discourse and policies on diversity in Scotland and South Tyrol

  • By discoversociety
  • September 02, 2020

Marcus Nicolson and Andrea Carlà Addressing diversity (whether cultural, racial, religious, or linguistic) is an issue faced not only by nation-states, [...]

Read more
Ways out from the social life of mass and excess consumption?

Ways out from the social life of mass and excess consumption?

  • By discoversociety
  • September 02, 2020

Magnus Boström Mass and excess consumption permeate social life in developed welfare countries. All of us living in these societies are [...]

Read more
Youth Mobility Scheme: Panacea or unfolding crisis for Hong Kongese without British National (Overseas) status?

Youth Mobility Scheme: Panacea or unfolding crisis for Hong Kongese without British National (Overseas) status?

  • By discoversociety
  • September 02, 2020

Elsa Oommen British National (Overseas) status was created in July 1987, ten years before the sovereignty of Hong Kong was [...]

Read more
Sitting down in the distant past to discover society: a case for Foucault’s ‘history of the present’

Sitting down in the distant past to discover society: a case for Foucault’s ‘history of the present’

  • By discoversociety
  • September 02, 2020

Susan Marie Martin An archaeologist finds artefacts in situ and she has in hand clues about the context in which they [...]

Read more
Fear and Loathing in everyday motoring: How race works on the road

Fear and Loathing in everyday motoring: How race works on the road

  • By discoversociety
  • September 02, 2020

Yunis Alam Motorised transport in general, and everything associated with it, can be couched as inherently problematic: these machines are built [...]

Read more
‘Old, gnarly and 60 metres tall’: Contesting Forestry and Identity in Australia

‘Old, gnarly and 60 metres tall’: Contesting Forestry and Identity in Australia

  • By discoversociety
  • September 02, 2020

Tom O’Brien The use and preservation of Australia’s old-growth forests has long been a source of contention between the state and [...]

Read more
What the recent exam fiasco has taught us about why government needs to trust teachers

What the recent exam fiasco has taught us about why government needs to trust teachers

  • By discoversociety
  • August 24, 2020

Jacqueline Baxter 2020 has been an exceptionally difficult year for all sectors of the public services in England, and the education [...]

Read more
Re-imagining the UK’s local industrial strategy after the Coronavirus pandemic

Re-imagining the UK’s local industrial strategy after the Coronavirus pandemic

  • By discoversociety
  • August 24, 2020

Sherif Youssef In his poem mourning Shelley, Byron said: “Nothing has happened, he has only undergone a sea change”. In a recent [...]

Read more
1 … 4 5 6 7 8 … 145

Rapid Response

  • Rapid Response: Decolonizing Italian Cities

Covid-19 – click for more

  • ‘COLONIAL VIRUS’?  COVID19, Black immunity myth and Africa  
  • Children in Crisis: Child Poverty and COVID-19
  • Some hope for migrants and refugees in the time of COVID-19?
  • Racism as a social determinant: COVID-19 and its impacts on racial/ethnic minorities
  • All for Vaccination? Vaccination for All?

Become a friend of Discover Society

Help Support Discover Society

Sign up to receive a monthly newsletter with the latest issue of Discover Society

Most Popular Posts of the Day

  • From Exotic to ‘Dirty’: How the Pandemic has Re-Colonised Leicester
  • The Full Monty? Women Customers’ Experiences at a Male Strip Show
  • Why should the bereaved give up their ghosts?
  • Expatriate or migrant? The racialised politics of migration categories and the ‘space in-between’
  • Visual Arts and British Imperialism in India in the Eighteenth Century: A Colonial Society in the Making
  • Subscribe to our RSS Feed
  • Follow us on Twitter
  • Like us on Facebook

The opinions expressed in the items published here are those of the authors and not Discover Society.

  • About Us
  • Editorial Board
  • Author Index
  • Topic Index
  • Archive
  • Contribute
  • Contact Us
  • Donate
Copyright © 2025. Madidus Theme by CreativeKingdom & Different Themes