Donna Mertens There are times when the state of the world seems over-whelming because the problems are too complex or the [...]
Read more
The inescapable gaze of data analytics
David Beer In his classic 1963 study of the emergence of clinical medicine, Michel Foucault described the presence of what he [...]
Read more
Institutionalising deservingness? Food banks and welfare reform
Alan Connolly Food bank usage has increased dramatically in the UK over the past decade. The Trussell Trust, the main food [...]
Read more
Keeping Racism in Mind
Hamish Robertson and Joanne Travaglia Race, racism and racists continue to be significant features of the so-called politics of identity prevalent [...]
Read more
Creative Dark Matter Rising? Struggling Over the Future of Alternative Cultural Spaces in the City of Geneva
Robert Hollands When I mentioned to a number of friends that I was going to Geneva, Switzerland to conduct research into [...]
Read more
Denmark’s quest to socialize the “ghettos”: The dark history of forced assimilation in Europe
Sara Salem Recent Danish laws purportedly targeting families who have “failed to integrate” have caused an uproar, seen as further proof [...]
Read more
London’s Homelessness Crisis and Wellbeing
Homelessness charity Evolve Housing + Support is calling for more counselling to be available for London’s homeless as a new [...]
Read more
FOCUS: The ‘where’ of Prevent
Shereen Fernandez, Rob Faure Walker and Tarek Younis In 2015, the Prevent Duty was made statutory in public institutions across the [...]
Read more
VIEWPOINT: Education, policy making and white privilege
Kalwant Bhopal From an early age unequal participation and access to education shapes the lives of young people and affects the [...]
Read more
ON THE FRONTLINE: “No one walks out their house without a knife” – living with violence as a daily threat
Will Mason I have worked with young people for almost 10 years, both as a researcher and a voluntary youth worker. [...]
Read more